The People Are Friendly
From: Friday, 7th June 2002
To: Saturday, 6 July 2002
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Synopsis
After 12 years in London, Michelle is looking for a fresh start. Selling her poky flat in Clapham, she has bought a large house overlooking the estate where she grew up and the disused shipyards of Birkenhead. Michelle invites her family for a homecoming celebration but the barbecue will not light, the family hates stuffed vine leaves and her sister thinks there's a ghost. Old conflicts reignite and she realises that her new life may not be as perfect as she had planned.
Our Review:
13 June 2002
Anyone who's lived in London for any length of time will identify with the sentiments voiced by Michelle and her boyfriend Robert in Michael Wynne's new play, The People Are Friendly. I felt the déjà vu of a thousand dinner party conversations as the characters enumerated the capital's faults - the pace, the rudeness, the Tube, the crime, the grime. All of which have driven them to trade their cramped two-bedroom Clapham flat for a five-bedroom house in Birkenhead.
After 12 years in the capital, Michelle has fled back to her home town outside Liverpool, where her new palatial, if somewhat crumbling, abode overlooks the estate still lived in by her parents and sister. To celebrate her homecoming, she invites her family round for a barbecue but, of course, things don't exactly go to plan.
Dominic Cooke's production milks the predictable laughs that arise from cocktails, hors d'oeuvres ("they look like they've just slipped out of someone's arse" is the ver...
Creative
Michael Wynne (Author)
Royal Court (Producer)
Dominic Cooke (Director)
John Stephenson (Design)
Peter Mumford (Lighting)
Paul Arditti (Sound)
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