Post by marion on Apr 6, 2023 18:11:28 GMT
To Richmond for the touring version of this play which started out at the National with Katherine Parkinson in the lead role.
Judy and Johnny live a fully immersive nineteen fifties life with vintage clothes, appliances, decor, everything (although she does have a laptop and surfs the net for vintage clothes). After being made redundant she decides to stay at home and be the perfect housewife and he is happy to go along with it. Her feminist mother thinks this is all appalling. Of course this is hiding an anxiety about life in the modern world and it is in fact the husband who starts yearning for the woman he married as cracks appear. It was really rather funny (not hysterically so) and I think struck a chord with a lot of the older women in the audience!!!! The mother was very popular with us! There are two friends who like to dress fifties style but haven’t gone the whole hog, but they come on dancing and effect the scene changes in what is a very convincing set. I kept looking for familiar gadgets etc!
Judy was well played by Jessica Ransom of Doc Martin fame and Johnny was only flipping Ryan Malloy from EastEnders!!! Without a Northern accent. The mother was played by Diane Keen, still a very attractive lady if a little hard to hear at times.
There are only six actors in this and it zipped along very well. It’s not just a joke on Judy and Johnny, it has a bit more depth about relationships and coping with life but it isn’t what you might call really deep or heavy. It was very well received by the Richmond audience, with even some enthusiastic cheering.
Judy and Johnny live a fully immersive nineteen fifties life with vintage clothes, appliances, decor, everything (although she does have a laptop and surfs the net for vintage clothes). After being made redundant she decides to stay at home and be the perfect housewife and he is happy to go along with it. Her feminist mother thinks this is all appalling. Of course this is hiding an anxiety about life in the modern world and it is in fact the husband who starts yearning for the woman he married as cracks appear. It was really rather funny (not hysterically so) and I think struck a chord with a lot of the older women in the audience!!!! The mother was very popular with us! There are two friends who like to dress fifties style but haven’t gone the whole hog, but they come on dancing and effect the scene changes in what is a very convincing set. I kept looking for familiar gadgets etc!
Judy was well played by Jessica Ransom of Doc Martin fame and Johnny was only flipping Ryan Malloy from EastEnders!!! Without a Northern accent. The mother was played by Diane Keen, still a very attractive lady if a little hard to hear at times.
There are only six actors in this and it zipped along very well. It’s not just a joke on Judy and Johnny, it has a bit more depth about relationships and coping with life but it isn’t what you might call really deep or heavy. It was very well received by the Richmond audience, with even some enthusiastic cheering.
Anymore to come?
