Family Business
From: Friday, 7th October 2011
To: Saturday, 22 October 2011
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Synopsis
Retired entrepreneur William invites his four grown-up children to visit his beautiful converted barn in the Welsh Borders to celebrate his birthday. They all join with William s carer Solomon to toast another year, but each of them has their own business in mind...
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 11 October 2011
It’s a very clever play, and a witty one as well. But, at the end of it all, Julian Mitchell’s new play Family Business lacks one vital ingredient. It has no heart.
The succession of one-liners flows copiously. There are moments when it’s almost like an Oscar Wilde comedy transformed for the 21st century, with just a dash of Bernard Shaw polemics thrown in for good measure. We listen intently, but from the outside only.
Matthew Lloyd’s production is as effortlessly smooth as Mitchell’s writing and there’s a good set by Ruari Murchison which gives us the ground-floor of a barn conversion dominating (or perhaps hemmed in by) the neighbouring hills and valleys.
An excellent central performance comes from Gerard Murphy as William, a widower with a multi-million pound travel company recovering from a heart attack, who also has four grown-up children and a carer (apparently a left-over from his wife’s dec...
Cast
Gerard Murphy (William)
Ben Onwukwe (Solomon)
Anna O'Grady (Kate)
Tessa Churchard (Tessa)
Chris Kelham (Tom)
Tom Berish (Hugo)
Creative
Julian Mitchell (Author)
Watford Palace Theatre (Producer)
Oxford Playhouse (Producer)
Matthew Lloyd (Director)
Ruari Murchison (Design)
Jason Taylor (Lighting)
Steve Mayo (Sound)
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