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Bournemouth Little Theatre Club Bournemouth Little Theatre Winton Bournemouth February 2004 Ken Thorp’s A Change For The Better was a well-constructed piece about a mother (an excellent Virginia Harrington) who is about to emigrate to Brazil. However, it might have been even more effective if the character of daughter Claire (Tess Hutton) had been a little less angst-ridden and that of her sister Chloe (Lisa Watkinson) rather less laid back. Les Clarke’s Cold has already won awards in playwriting competitions, and its pedigree showed. Its slightly quirky storyline about the lengths a man will go to to prepare himself for a job interview was highly amusing and well performed by Don Cherrett (Smithers) and Mike Satchell (Hart). There was also a lovely cameo from Nicola King as a Salvation Army volunteer unwittingly caught up in the melee. Les’ Passion Killer was a great disappointment. The storyline, about how 28 year old Claire’s (Natalie Mills) night of passion with her boyfriend Brian (Peter Beebee) is interrupted by the entrance of her 61 year-old nymphomaniac grandmother (Denise Nippard) simply did not ring true. Neither did it help that the ‘grandmother’ was dressed in clothing completely at odds with her supposed character and was played in caricature fashion by someone many years too young for the role. Linda Kirkman Courtesy of the Bournemouth Daily Echo |
