Bedroom Farce
From: Wednesday, 24th March 2010
To: Saturday, 19 June 2010
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Synopsis
When Malcolm and Kate threw a house-warming they had no idea how hot it would get. But then with four couples, three bedrooms, two ex-lovers and one set of parents-in-law (not to mention self assembly furniture and pilchards on toast) it was never going to go that smoothly. First performed June 1975.
Our Review:
31 March 2010
In 1977 Peter Hall risked traditionalist ire by staging Alan Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce at the National Theatre, which was seen as far too hallowed a venue for such commercial froth. Thirty-three years on, the critical snobbery surrounding Britain’s most prolific playwright has abated and Hall has returned to the play. Sadly, it’s hard from this distance to see why he stuck his neck out for it.
The action famously involves four couples in three bedrooms displayed side by side. Designer Simon Higlett has resisted the temptation to swathe it all in Seventies retro: this was as much an era of eiderdowns and frilly lampshades as of lava lamps and funk, and his designs have an authentically dowdy, sitcom feel. The sexlessness of these boudoirs reinforces that impression: we could be in bed with Terry and June, or Morecambe and Wise.
The problem is the material feels just as dowdy, with what now looks like remarkably creaky plotting. I ...
Latest User Review
kilburncat - 2 April 2010:
Great director, wonderful cast, good production, so all the ingredients are there, and there is a lot of wandering in and out of bedroom doors, but when the action isn't pedestrian it's a bit funny, nothing more. So you will laugh a bit and keep thinking that eventually it will be really funny when the whole thing has been set up but then you will realise that it has got as funny as it's going to be and you might feel a little disappointed....
Cast
Jenny Seagrove
Daniel Betts
Sara Crowe
Tony Gardner
David Horovitch
Rachel Pickup
Orlando Seale
Finty Williams
Creative
Alan Ayckbourn (Author)
Rose Theatre Kingston (Producer)
Peter Hall (Director)
Simon Higlett (Design)
Mark Bouman (Costume)
Peter Mumford (Lighting)
Gregory Clarke (Sound)
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