Sign of the Times
From: Monday, 7th March 2011
To: Saturday, 2 April 2011
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Synopsis
From forty-foot yellow IKEAs to five-foot red COMETs, Frank Tollit has put up giant letters on the sides of huge buildings for over twenty-five years. It's his talent, but not his ambition: that involves letters of a very different sort - literary ones. But lack of success is driving him to the edge. Not even in one of his wildest plots could Frank have dreamed that salvation would turn up in the shape of a clumsy teenager on work experience. This master simply isn't prepared for what his apprentice is about to teach him, six feet up on a ledge above Yorkshire. And neither one is prepared for the surprises in store at their next high-level meeting...
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Michael Coveney - 13 March 2011
Tim Firth’s Sign of the Times – not to be confused with Jeremy Kingston’s long ago play of the same title which starred Kenneth More – started out as a one-acter at Scarborough in 1991 and has wound its way, a little limply, into the West End after touring last year.
It makes for a fairly agreeable short evening in the company of Matthew Kelly and Shameless star Gerard Kearns (the complete cast) but not a wildly exciting one. And the new, inferior second act doesn’t really develop from the first except as an inverted variation of it.
The play gently explores the give and take in a top dog and sidekick situation, starting on the roof and moving inside to an office three years later where the roles are not exactly reversed but reapplied; from putting up letter signs on a Batley rooftop, Kelly’s Frank has moved down in the world while Kearns’s Alan has become an assistant trainee manager in ...
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Kate Anstruther - 14 March 2011:
I can't agree with Gareth James, I went not knowing what to expect and enjoyed every minute of it. I'm not jaded or a theatre insider, just an ordinary punter and I wish there were more of this accessible, genuinely funny, touching, well acted sort of material in the West End. Its not an intellectual challenge but what it is is a cracking night out. And Gareth, its "The Woman in Black", not White....
Cast
Matthew Kelly (Frank Tollit)
Gerard Kearns
Creative
Tim Firth (Author)
Peter Wilson (Director)
Morgan Large (Design)
Tony Simpson (Lighting)
Gareth Owen (Sound)
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