What can you say? A play by Alan Bennett, starring Timothy West, Jean Marsh and Simon Williams. As usual with an Alan Bennet play the characters are so well drawn, the language so accessible, the atmosphere so intimate. The theatre - the Trafalgar Studios (previously the Whitehall Theatre) is ideal for a production of a Bennett play. The seats are not separated from the area where the actors perform (hardly a stage really). I loved this play - hardly a comedy but entertaining and thought provoking. A literary play, making gentle jibes at class, politics, and the literary world. Here we have a spy in exile who is visited by his sister and pompous brother-in-law who have come to take him back to Britain. The spy is content in Russia, but another (lower level) exchangee really wants to return - but won't be given the chance. Alan Bennett is so good at drawing out the elements of character and pokes fun at the pomposity of class. Well worth seeing.
Sunday, March 26, 2006
The Old Country
What can you say? A play by Alan Bennett, starring Timothy West, Jean Marsh and Simon Williams. As usual with an Alan Bennet play the characters are so well drawn, the language so accessible, the atmosphere so intimate. The theatre - the Trafalgar Studios (previously the Whitehall Theatre) is ideal for a production of a Bennett play. The seats are not separated from the area where the actors perform (hardly a stage really). I loved this play - hardly a comedy but entertaining and thought provoking. A literary play, making gentle jibes at class, politics, and the literary world. Here we have a spy in exile who is visited by his sister and pompous brother-in-law who have come to take him back to Britain. The spy is content in Russia, but another (lower level) exchangee really wants to return - but won't be given the chance. Alan Bennett is so good at drawing out the elements of character and pokes fun at the pomposity of class. Well worth seeing.
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