In a hugely entertaining treble-bill by two of the country’s foremost playwrights, a talented team of four players, under Sarah Newman’s firm direction, didn’t put a foot wrong, first bringing to life the minutiae of two 1980’s Yorkshire office workers in Alan Bennett’s ‘Green Forms’, followed by two hilarious domestic mini-farces from the pen of Michael Frayn.
In ‘Green Forms’, Debbie Shipton and Alison Silver played the single, forthright Doris and her happily married, gossipy colleague Doreen, both coming to realise that their hitherto safe jobs might just be in jeopardy with Bennett’s typically perceptive Yorkshire dialogue a joy to listen to.
In ‘Alarms’, a dinner party for two couples (Ron Perry and Debbie Shipton and Lloyd Perry and Alison Silver) is overwhelmed by a chorus of pings, beeps, bells, buzzers and alarms, while ‘Leavings’ has the same two couples unable to drag themselves away after the evening’s chaos.
A brilliant evening’s theatre from Redlynch Players”.
Ed Howson
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