Post by marion on Jan 4, 2024 20:45:41 GMT
This has been a sell out at the Orange Tree which seems to have got a bit more fizz about it since a change of management. It was an absolute delight. The play has been updated to the 1920s and the cast have to rush about, in the round, achieving changes of scene very quickly but really you just have to imagine and go with it. It was very funny indeed, and some of the audience, especially three American ladies near us, were quite giddy! The main names here were Freddie Fox (he is so thin!) and Greta Scacchi (playing the well-endowed matriarch) but also in the cast were the veteran David Horovitch plus younger actresses Tanya Reynolds and Sabrina Bartlett whom I have seen on TV.
This played out very well and the whole company meshed together. The audience certainly enjoyed it and it got loud applause at the end, standing ovations not really being an Orange Tree thing.
(I also managed to find the Box Office guy who came to my rescue when I was too ill to go before Christmas and got the one remaining matinée ticket. I thanked him for his help: he said he remembered me!!!!! I thought I was quite calm though, not my usual fraught self in such circumstances. I guess I was too ill to be anything other than resigned, 😂)
This played out very well and the whole company meshed together. The audience certainly enjoyed it and it got loud applause at the end, standing ovations not really being an Orange Tree thing.
(I also managed to find the Box Office guy who came to my rescue when I was too ill to go before Christmas and got the one remaining matinée ticket. I thanked him for his help: he said he remembered me!!!!! I thought I was quite calm though, not my usual fraught self in such circumstances. I guess I was too ill to be anything other than resigned, 😂)
Anymore to come?
