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Bournemouth Little Theatre Club Bournemouth Little Theatre Winton Bournemouth December 2003 It is set in the present day as the various relatives of recently deceased Uncle Jacob gather for the reading of his will. It transpires that the bulk of his estate will go to the family member who, two years hence, can fulfil a particular requirement - and it is one that these dysfunctional people seem unlikely to achieve. But that doesn’t stop them trying, and how they go about it makes for a thoroughly amusing evening. Most of the characters are – I hope intentionally – totally over the top, from Don Gent’s exceedingly camp Simon, Ann Cave’s hippyish Carol and Virginia Harrington’s mannish Hattie to Emily Monk’s sex-mad Kirsty and Clifford Page and Nicola King’s smug Alfred and Dottie. And Mike Satchell’s elderly lawyer, Septimus Quilpen, seems to have had an accident with some talcum powder. In fact, it is only Noel Davenport’s Rev. Victor Loveage who seems relatively normal, and even he has a few skeletons in the cupboard. It’s all well acted and great fun, and there’s even a clever little twist at the end. Linda Kirkman Courtesy of the Bournemouth Daily Echo |
