Post by marion on May 28, 2023 8:47:12 GMT
This is a comedy by Somerset Maugham dating from 1921. A society beauty dumps her husband and child and runs off with the man who should have been Prime Minister. 30 years later they return and find her daughter in law is about to do the same.
I was surprised by just how entertaining this was, and incredibly involving. The theatre is very small and plays in the round so in a drawing room comedy you feel as if you are in the room. The main star here was Jane Asher as the bolter with Clive Francis as her husband and Nicholas Le Provost as the lover. They were so good in their parts and Jane Asher had such excellent delivery (my bugbear). It got a terrific reception from the audience so all in all it was worth having to cram into a train crowded (and boy was it crowded) with rugby fans heading to Twickenham. I had to sit down at Richmond Station to recover and cool down. Luckily I had remembered to take my fan.
I was surprised by just how entertaining this was, and incredibly involving. The theatre is very small and plays in the round so in a drawing room comedy you feel as if you are in the room. The main star here was Jane Asher as the bolter with Clive Francis as her husband and Nicholas Le Provost as the lover. They were so good in their parts and Jane Asher had such excellent delivery (my bugbear). It got a terrific reception from the audience so all in all it was worth having to cram into a train crowded (and boy was it crowded) with rugby fans heading to Twickenham. I had to sit down at Richmond Station to recover and cool down. Luckily I had remembered to take my fan.
Anymore to come?
