home | accolade | articles | acting | festivals | guestbook | groups | greenroom | links | news | plays 1 productions | photos | quotes | reviews |
 |
 |
Ferndown Drama Group Barrington Theatre Ferndown October 2002 A few of the scenarios were instantly recognisable, although if our leader had been as aggressive as her dramatic counterpart, Siobhan, I wouldn’t have lasted beyond the first session. Sadly though, the play was simply not written well enough to sustain the audience’s interest. It employed a technique, used to similar and considerably better effect by Richard Harris in Stepping Out, in which the characters’ personal problems are aired and resolved almost as a side effect of classes, whether they be for tap dancing or slimming. Unfortunately in this instance the characters did not have enough depth for that to work, so there was little real pathos or humour, and as for the strange, resurrection-type ending – well, words fail me. Nevertheless, the cast (Trish Binding, Jenny Sibley, Dawn Hollington, Eileen Gee, Margaret Hollington, Chrissie Davies and Marie Blake) worked hard to overcome the plot’s deficiencies and I had no complaints over the handling of their roles – but sorry, to hit target was impossible. Linda Kirkman Courtesy of the Bournemouth Daily Echo |
