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Synopsis
Harry and Jack, two eccentric gentlemen, discover the common bond of friendship as they spend an afternoon talking on the terrace of a garden. But their genteel clam is shattered by the arrival of the raucous and vulgar Marjorie and Kathleen, and it becomes clear that all may not be as it first appears. This funny, poetic and poignant play about friendship was famously produced at the Royal Court in 1970 with Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson, before winning awards in the West End and on Broadway.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 15 July 2009
Elusive, evanescent, pointilliste: David Storey’s Home is a difficult play to make work, and Stephen Unwin’s revival in the Peter Hall season at Bath goes a long way to making you feel there is maybe just a little more to this than meets the eye, or indeed the ear.
At the end, the play turns into a lament for our island race, with Stephen Moore’s Jack litanising our proud discovery of radar, jet propulsion, the steam engine, penicillin and television as he stands to attention by the Union Jack drooping from a tall white pole in the garden.
When John Gielgud played Jack and Ralph Richardson his companion Harry in the original 1970 production by Lindsay Anderson at the Royal Court, the piece seemed ideally tailored to the ethereal distraction of the first and the secretive, pungent dottiness of the second.
The game was nearly up when Paul Eddington and Richard Briers exposed the threadbare contrivance and self-consciousness of t...
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David Storey (Author)
Peter Hall Company (Company)
Stephen Unwin (Director)
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