A Voyage Round My Father

Synopsis

Narrated by the character of the Son, this extraordinary and intensely personal drama has at its heart a most curious father-son relationship, one which cast its shadow (sometimes protective, sometimes stifling) across the author's life.

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195.93.21.104) - 23 July 2006:

I missed the productions, all those years ago, with Guiness and Redgrave and even Olivier's one on TV. I had heard such good things about it and I love Mortimer's brilliant irreverent comedy that I was anxious not to miss this. I was not disappointed. Jacobi was triumphant as Mortimer's cantankerous father who clearly shaped "the boy". Amongst the wonderful comic moments, in particular Christopher Benjamin's headmaster teaching the boys the facts of life by reducing the subject to "unsolicited....cake!", it has deeply moving moments as when Joanna David, touchingly playing the long suffering wife,is listening to yet another of her husband's rants with all the burden of her love for him etched upon her face. The other players are all excellent including the two boys who were on the night I saw it - Charlie Bollands and Jolyon Price. It is a four star play with five star performances. ...

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