Enjoy
- By:
- Alan Bennett
- Management:
- Peter Hall Company and Theatre Royal Bath
- Cast:
- Alison Steadman, David Troughton, Carol Macready, Josie Walker, Richard Glaves
- Director:
- Christopher Luscombe
- Design:
- Janet Bird
- Sound:
- Jason Barnes
- Lighting:
- Paul Pyant
Production information can change over the run of the show.
I have mixed feelings about this revival. First to the positive. David Troughton gives an outstanding performance as the boorish, bitter, chin-jutting, humourless, anxious, pitiful, invalid Wilfred Craven, trapped with a wife on the edge of Alzheimer's in a shabby but respectable, back-to-back Leeds house about to be demolished in 1980. And Alison Steadman finds exactly the right blend of tragedy and comedy in her cross, put upon, hilariously forgetful Connie Craven who has certainly not forgotten the intelligent, cultured gay son disowned many years earlier by her angry bigoted husband. Carol Macready's cameo performance as the bustling, know-all but lonely neighbour makes some wonderful theatre too, especially when she and Connie find themselves dealing with a priapic dead (or is it?) body. Macready's face work over a girlie magazine is almost a masterclass in silent theatre... February 3, 2009
Search Amazon for Enjoy items Search for tickets at TicketmasterThe Peter Hall Company have unearthed a little-known Alan Bennett gem to close their sixth summer season in Bath... August 19, 2008
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