Bedroom Farce
From: Saturday, 6th June 2009
To: Saturday, 4 July 2009
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Synopsis
When Malcolm and Kate threw a house-warming they had no idea how hot it would get. But then with four couples, three bedrooms, two ex-lovers and one set of parents-in-law (not to mention self assembly furniture and pilchards on toast) it was never going to go that smoothly. First performed June 1975.
Our Review:
16 June 2009
It has been somewhat disturbing to see two fairly early Alan Ayckbourn plays on successive nights. Both How the Other Loves at Scarborough and the West Yorkshire Playhouse’s Bedroom Farce are entertaining and demonstrate Ayckbourn’s skill in manipulating comic situations, but the world view that emerges is (at least on the surface) surprisingly misanthropic.
Young married couples come out of it particularly badly: of five couples in the two plays, four are totally dysfunctional, plagued by misogyny, physical and verbal abuse and assorted neuroses. The message from the calmer older couples seems to be that, if you're never going to relate to each other, good manners dictate that you find a way to pretend to. A more civilised form of self-obsession prevails by middle age.
In Bedroom Farce Ayckbourn’s relationship to sitcom also gives cause for unease. “Did we really used to laugh at this?” asks a contributor's note ...
Cast
Denise Black (Delia)
Niky Wardley (Jan)
Laura Elphinstone
Brian Lonsdale
Leah Muller
Chu Omambala
Robin Pearce
Christopher Ravenscroft
Creative
Alan Ayckbourn (Author)
West Yorkshire Playhouse (Producer)
Tamara Harvey (Director)
Anthony Lamble (Design)
James Farncombe (Lighting)
Mic Pool (Sound)
Julia Horan (casting) (Director)
Chris Hill I(assistant) (Director)
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