And a Nightingale Sang..
From: Wednesday, 24th February 2010
To: Saturday, 6 March 2010
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Synopsis
The play follows the course of World War II as experienced by a working class family in Liverpool. In wartime there are no public worries, only private worries and this story of the family's personal relationships, preoccupations, troubles and joys suggest perhaps the reason why - with all the perils and troubles besieging it - the human race will continue to survive.
Our Review:
26 February 2010
This perfectly judged staging of And a Nightingale Sang, a joint production by the New Vic in Stoke and Oldham Coliseum, reminds us of the unique talents of C.P. Taylor, inexplicably neglected nearly 30 years after his death. Many of Taylor’s plays were staged at the Live Theatre, Newcastle, like this one, or the Traverse in Edinburgh, and his writing has a truth and a social dimension that remain striking today.
And a Nightingale Sang begins in September 1939, with the working-class Stott family in Newcastle too busy with their own preoccupations to pay much heed at first to Hitler. Father George is banging out popular tunes on the piano (which he does to great effect throughout the evening), mother Peggy, an obsessively devout Catholic, agonises over Father Monaghan’s health, granddad Andie frantically seeks for mourners for his whippet’s funeral, pretty young sister Joyce can’t make up her mind whether she fancies a young man or not, and elder sister Helen, lim...
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andy stott - 24 March 2010:
I go to the Coliseum quite a lot and always worry when there is something 'Northern' on. A lot of it is to do with the older audience that seem to be attracted to such performances and find it essential to laugh, clap and commentate through the whole performance. Unfortunately this met the criteria perfectly, it was utter tripe. Any poignancy, drama and/or characterisation was completely lost. Oh that and it lasting for nigh on 3 hours. CP taylor must have been spinning. The cast tried it's best and have no little talent. the production was dire....
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C P Taylor (Author)
New Vic Newcastle-under-Lyme (Producer)
Oldham Coliseum Theatre (Producer)
Sarah Punshon (Director)
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