That's Love

Synopsis

The Frank Daniels Trio were a singing, dancing, comedy sensation. A Wow! Top of the Bill! Socko! Frank, the manager, was always on the left. Tony, the comedy man, was always on the right. Both men adored the girl in the middle - the beautiful Sarah. The perfect recipe for an entangled triangle. Sarah yearned for the more exciting Tony to declare his love, but it was the stable Frank who made the first move. She accepted. And so they married and lived happily - well, almost - ever after. That was in the 60’s. Music changed. Styles changed. The trio disbanded. Sarah often thought about Tony. Tony wondered about Sarah. And when, years later, the three friends re-unite, memories and yearnings return - this time offering a second chance for true happiness. Will they dare to take it? With stand-up comedy and ‘grumpy old men’, this emotional roller coaster of a play will confirm the old adage that ‘truth will out’.

Our Review:

10 April 2008

You cannot accuse the Mill at Sonning, almost certainly the best supper theatre in Britain, of not knowing its own audience. Ron Aldridge’s That's Love, a sentimental romantic comedy of old age, nostalgic regret, dodgy waterworks and last chance cuddles, is almost cynically devised to press every button on the dashboard of the Berkshire bloomers and blazer brigade.

Luckily, the love birds in question are played by Nicholas Ball and Rula Lenska, both going against the glutinous grain in performances of skilfully projected pain and edginess; Ball is Tony Scott, now dying in a nursing home, who loved and lost Sarah Daniels (Lenska), who in turn was married to the third member of their song and dance act in the 1960s.

The act was the Frank Daniels trio, and Frank (Alan Rothwell) has learned to live with the knowledge of the affair, though that doesn’t stop him turning up in the home to wish Tony a safe, untroubled passage to hell. Sarah keeps poppin...

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