Perfect Days
From: Friday, 21st September 2001
To: Saturday, 20 October 2001
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Synopsis
Like Rapunzel in her tower, Barbs Marshall looks down on the world from her high, state-of-the-art and very elegant loft in the Merchant City. Glasgow's changed alright! Razor City is now just the name of THE trendiest salon in town, the one she co-owns. Her appearances on TV's Morningtime Makeover have made her a local celeb - and a few bob into the bargain. Singing along with Dusty on the eve of her 39th birthday, Barbs counts her (mixed) blessings. Okay, she has The Mother who'd put years on you. But she's got some friends to die for. There's totally gorgeous Brendan (gay, of course), Alice (she's known forever) and Davie (the amicably estranged ex). Barbs knows she's every cliché in the Marie Claire. She's single, solvent, has the requisite ticking biological clock and finite set of functioning hormones. But real life throws in a few unexpected for Barbs as she realises that the fundamental things do apply, as time goes by.
Our Review:
27 September 2001
Note: This review dates from September 2001 and the production's original run at Manchester's Library Theatre.
A huge hit at the Edinburgh Fringe and in the West End, in this new production, Liz Lochhead's Perfect Days' has been transplanted from Glasgow to Manchester, with the dialect and some of the local references reworked to maximise regional audiences' understanding.
With humour and heartache in just the right measure, and a dash of surprise in the neat twist at the end, Perfect Days is a poignant romantic comedy. Lochhead plumbs the familiar contemporary dilemma - can an ambitious single woman really have it all? - to moving effect while also testing the ties of parental love, romantic love and friendship.
Glamorous and feisty Barbs Marshall seems to have the perfect life. She's a celebrity hairdresser with a trendy loft apartment in the city centre, a wardrobe full of designer labels, her o...
Latest User Review
USER: Whatsonstage.com - 11 October 2001:
Terrific 'feel-good' script which does not patronise combined with good performances make this an exciting and rewarding trip to the theatre. The set looks good but is over dressed - the time taken between scenes to clear props is too long. The play, here set in Manchester, has overtones of a modern day "A Taste of Honey" but is none the worse for this. Well worth catching either at the Library or at Watford Palace where it next plays. Ian....
Creative
Liz Lochhead (Author)
Library Theatre (Producer)
Palace Theatre Watford (Producer)
Roger Haines (Director)
Judith Croft (Design)
Nick Ritchings (Lighting)
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