Peggy Sue Got Married

Synopsis

With all her knowledge and experience of the last 25 years, Peggy Sue is given the chance to change her life completely. Peggy Sue is a mother of two and coping with an impending divorce from Charlie. She isn't a failure...but neither has life gone exactly as she planned. She attends her high school reunion where a freak mishap sends her decades back in time, giving her the chance to start again!

Our Review:

21 August 2001

As an expat American who recently returned Stateside for her own school reunion, I can attest to the draw of this peculiarly American institution which induces waves of nostalgic giddiness hand-in-hand with analytical melancholy.

Perhaps I'm predisposed then, though there's nothing peculiar or exclusively American about the desire to re-run parts of your life to correct past mistakes. When Peggy Sue - mother of two and estranged wife to wayward Charlie - faints at her reunion, she wakes to find herself back in the 1960s in her 17-year-old life and body but with the mind and memories of her 42-year-old self. Against a backdrop of pink walls, pom-poms and ra-ra skirts, she struggles to forewarn friends and families about future dangers and, most importantly for her own life's course, decide whether to fall in love again with Charlie or abscond to Paris with beatnik poet Michael.

Even if you haven't seen the 1986 film version (also care of Jerry Leichtling and Arlene Sarn...

Read more of the review

Latest User Review

USER: Whatsonstage.com - 9 October 2001:

Let me give this show 5 stars to start with. Then take away one star for it having no plot or decent book. Take away another star for the fact that the score was filled with easily forgettable songs. Lose another star for the poor set design which failed to create any atmosphere. Lose a fourth star for the utter boredom it caused me. The star that's left goes to Ruthie Henshall for having any faith in the show in the first place. Not even Ruthie's talents could rescue this mess....

Read more and add your own review

Related Whatsonstage.com Articles

20 Questions With...Ruthie Henshall More»