Forget-Me-Not Lane
From: Thursday, 24th May 2007
To: Saturday, 25 August 2007
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Synopsis
40 year old Frank Bisley's marriage is breaking up. He finds himself looking back on his teenage self at the end of World War II, where looming large in his frustrations are his stoical mother Violet, and his father Charles, self-righteous, opinionated and eccentric.
Our Review:
31 May 2007
A production bookended by Sidney Bechet’s recording of Maple Leaf Rag and the entire cast launching into a Flanagan and Allen routine with (what else?) Forget-Me-Not Lane sounds like fun, but in between Peter Nichols’ play seems uncertain of what it wants to be.
Middle-aged Frank is preparing to leave his wife. This leads him to remember and re-activate his life as a 14-year-old in 1941 and bring it gradually up to the present, 1970, when the play was written. A thinly disguised portrait of Nichols’ own family, he being Frank, it offers little more by way of plot than people arguing, irritating each other, falling in love, going to, and returning from war and, of course, growing older.
Frequently entertaining and sporadically moving the play remains unsatisfying. It hints at being a 1940's nostalgia trip (but needs more of the jolly concert party stuff) and a dramatised Bildungsroman (but Frank is too much a reactive cipher for ...
Creative
Peter Nichols (Author)
Stephen Joseph Theatre Company (Company)
Bob Eaton (Director)
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