Life of Riley
From: Monday, 7th February 2011
To: Saturday, 12 February 2011
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
With a few months of his life remaining, George Riley’s closest friends remember with love, nostalgia or occasional bursts of downright fury, how deeply he has affected all their past lives. George, though, is plotting one last final farewell which threatens to upset all their future lives. What exactly is the eccentric maverick Riley playing at?
Our Review:
9 February 2011
Back to the theatre of the seventies we go with Ayckbourn’s latest at the Playhouse. Back to middle-class six-handers on the seemingly unremitting problems that spill from a comfortable marriage. Back to the hackneyed set up of a character entering/leaving to sow discord on remnants. Back to affairs and regret and recriminations. Back to wave upon wave of ceaseless grim mediocrity. Back to another tired evaluation of the pangs of a plain British life. Back to the straight-jacket of a structure consisting of three acts, repeating the same scene at all of the beginnings.
My negative reaction to The Life of Riley jarred badly with tonight’s audience. My feelings were clearly out of step with the appreciative laughter that was always readily available. It seemed that I was one of only two people present who felt that this was a dull example of a style of theatre whose time has long since past. It was not the fault of any of the actors, Kim Wall displays sure-footed comic timing...
Creative
Alan Ayckbourn (Author)
Stephen Joseph Theatre Company (Company)
Alan Ayckbourn (Director)
Michael Holt (Design)
Jason Taylor (Lighting)
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