Onions Cry Too

Synopsis

Four elderly gentlemen are trapped in a care home, doors and windows locked with the tea trolley provisions diminishing by the day. What is the point of existing outside these four walls? Under the sporadic and semi-conscious gaze of the mysterious Donald, God-fearing Alfred is stuck in the past, Bertie laments a lost love, and Charles is intent on destroying Slough.

Our Review:

1 October 2012

Onions Cry Too by Jayne Marshall is a comic and surreal study of love, life and old age.

It begins with the larger than life Charles (Arthur Bostrom) bounding into what appears to be a room in a care home having been summoned there by the wheelchair bound Donald (Bob Young). They are soon joined by Alfred (Eryl Lloyd Parry) and Bertie(David Milne), two elderly friends confined to the home with its faded flowered wallpaper and haunted by memories of their past.

The audience is suddenly tipped into a very strange world indeed, which throws up more questions than answers. Why are all the doors and windows locked? Where are all the staff? And from where does the tea trolley keep appearing? Above all there is something very strange about Charles and Donald who seem locked in some sort of a competition over the two other men.

The feeling of going slightly mad is accentuated by some marvellous and absurd moments, such as the eternal ‘jaffa cak...

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