The Potting Shed
From: Tuesday, 4th January 2011
To: Saturday, 29 January 2011
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Synopsis
An estranged son desperately searches for the missing childhood memories that left him rejected by his father, alienated from his family and alone in the world. After a generation of denial, will the Callifer family ever end their silence on what happened in the potting shed all those years ago?
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 7 January 2011
Which leading role was, bizarrely, first played by John Gielgud (in 1958) and later by Cliff Richard (in 1971)? The answer is James Callifer in Graham Greene’s The Potting Shed, not seen since that latter revival, newly and smartly directed by Svetlana Dimcovic at the Finborough.
It’s an odd, stilted play about the loss of faith and the mystery of love revolving around the death of an unseen atheist and cosmologist and the unlocked secret of what happened to young James in the potting shed.
James, played with the sort of sweaty urgency by Paul Cawley you can’t quite imagine in either Gielgud (who spoke to the actors as if he were tipping them, said Tynan in his famously sarcastic review) or Sir Cliff, is in a high old state. His dog is howling. He doesn’t know what love is. The family has kept him away from his father these past 15 years.
So he’s gate-crashed the wake to find some answers. Aided b...
Cast
Eileen Battye
Emma Beattie
Paul Cawley
Carl Ferguson
David Gooderson
Janet Hargreaves
Lorna Jones
Charlie Roe
Zoe Thorne
Mario Vernazza
Martin Wimbush
Creative
Graham Greene (Author)
Neil McPherson (for the Finborough Theatre) (Producer)
Svetlana Dimcovic (Director)
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