Chalet Lines
From: Friday, 6th April 2012
To: Saturday, 5 May 2012
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Synopsis
"Some women long their whole lives to be asked how they are, if just by a complete stranger" Butlins Skegness, Chalet Number 12, where the Walker women have been holidaying since 1961. This year it's Nana Barbara's Seventieth and everyone's airing their dirty laundry. Loretta's had too many camp cocktails, Jolene has fallen tits over teeth for a Redcoat, Abigail's seeking comfort from her dead end marriage in a suitcase full of toys, and Nana Barbara has a fifty year old secret to share. A shockingly funny journey through five decades of birthdays, weddings and hen dos which asks, do all women inevitably become like their mothers?
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 13 April 2012
In whatever way Madani Younis may later stamp his special mark on the Bush as the new artistic director, he’s certainly got one of the venue’s traditional flanks well covered: the mother and daughter regional working-class no-holds-barred marriage and sex talk-in.
The astonishing thing about Chalet Lines, though, is that it’s written by a young man in his twenties, Lee Mattinson, not by a feisty feminist successor to Catherine Johnson or Sharman Macdonald. And it sounds nothing but authentic.
It also side-steps the unambitious sitcom trap by using a format in which Barbara’s seventieth birthday party in a chalet at Butlins holiday camp in Skegness becomes a way of revisiting a daughter’s hen party in 1996, as well as Barbara’s own fateful wedding day in 1961.
The time frame is not always crystal clear in Younis’s boisterous production, but the power of the performances, especially those ...
Creative
Lee Mattinson (Author)
Bush Theatre (in association with Newcastle Live) (Producer)
Madani Younis (Director)
Leslie Travers (Design)
Che Walker (dramaturg) (Other)
Tom Gibbons (Sound)
Tim Mascall (Lighting)
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