You Can't Take It With You
From: Wednesday, 24th October 2007
To: Saturday, 17 November 2007
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Synopsis
Classic American comedy. Meet the delightful mad Sycamore family and their rather unhappy counterparts, the Kirby family. You Can't Take it With You is packed full of peculiar personalities, disapproving parents, young lovers determined to find a way and erm...a printing press, tax collector, Russian ballet teacher and fireworks!
Our Review:
30 October 2007
Without being deliriously brilliant, this affectionate revival of a 1936 Broadway classic, Moss Hart and George S Kaufman’s You Cant Take It With You, is a pretty good account of a screwball comedy best known for the delightful Frank Capra film version with James Stewart and Jean Arthur as the romantic leads.
A Michael Bogdanov NT production in 1983 fell flat and received short critical shift, so Gavin McAlinden’s revival for Charm Offensive in the new Southwark Playhouse is a pleasant surprise, capturing the intense dottiness of the Vanderhof household despite a mild sense of cultural alienation in the audience. Who understands, after all, why the rich kid, Tony Kirby (Matt Barber) should think of his sweet fiancée from the family firm, Alice Sycamore (Maria Bonner), as “the Kay Francis of Kirby and Co”?
The new Playhouse is an unkind, vaulted venue, too, with ungainly dimensions, the constant rumbling of trains arriving at London...
Creative
Moss Hart (Author)
George S Kaufman (Author)
Charm Offensive (Producer)
Southwark Playhouse (Producer)
Gavin McAlinden (Director)
Vicki Fifield (Design)
Paul Colwell (Lighting)
Matt Downing (Sound)
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