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Our Song
- Tour.
Premiered 1993.
Playwright - Keith Waterhouse and adapted from his novel of the
same name.
Director - Ned Sherrin.
Designer - Tim Goodchild.
Assistant Designer - Tim McQuillen-Wright.
Costume Designer - Sarah-Jane McCelland.
Lighting Designer - Oliver Fenwick.
Sound Designer - Tom Lishman.
Company - TEG Productions in assoc. with the Key Theatre Peterborough
.
Cast - here .
Venue - King's Theatre Edinburgh.Leven
St 0131 529 6000
New Secure 72 hr email booking + info available at www.eft.co.uk
.
Dates - 13
- 17 May at 7:30pm and mats on Wed and Sat at 2:30pm.
Further 2003 Tour Dates and Times - here .
Run Time - 2 hours including 15 mins interval.
Reviewer - Thelma Good.
Amusing but unsettling.
The programme has tips for how to have an affair, but after seeing this
play by Keith Waterhouse you may well decide to pass on the opportunity
anyway.
Our Song directed by Ned Sherrin has three central performances making
it amusing but unsettling. Not least Charlotte Emmerson's Angela.
A sliver of a girl she's brittle and waif like, part child, part single-minded
woman - a combination men are drawn to, their eyes blind to the female
mess that makes it. It's a starkly, bare bones playing by Emmerson
which makes you tremble for the precipice you sense Angela is teetering
on.
Peter Bowles's Rodger spots Angela across the room where he and
his guests are celebrating his son's christening. From the beginning his
wife Judith, Caroline Langrishe clocks what going on - be warned
spouses have a radar for this. Judith's playing a long game, not heaping
on blazing confrontations but verbal jabs and meaningful phrases and Langrishe
ensures her few appearances have charm and clarity.
Waterhouse has Rodger in scenes where he's both talking to his wife at
home, appealing or explaining to the audience and exchanging sharp remarks
with Angela. Bowles handles these exchanges and the play with ease.
It's uncommonly like watching a friend rush toward perdition, his companion
along the way being Angela. At first referred to as a freelance factotum,
Angela is young with a disarming awkwardness and inability to use the
right word, she shares Rodger's liking for champagne. We become increasingly
knowing flies on the hotel rooms, flat, bar and restaurant walls of the
suggestive multi-room set as we hear what he in his headlong desire can't.
If you've strayed, been tempted or just watched someone go off the rails
of monogamy. Our Song has tunes you will remember with a wry smile
or a sharp heart pain.
© Thelma Good 13 May 2003. - Published on EdinburghGuide.com
Cast: Rodger Piper - Peter Bowles, Judith Piper
- Caroline Langrishe, Angela Caxton - Charlotte Emmerson, Charles - David
Firth, Belle - Sarah-Jayne Steed, Gunby T Gunby and Maitre D' - James
Pearse.
2003 Tour Details of TEG/Key Theatre's production
of Our Song.
Tour begins
25 - 29 March at Peterborough Key Theatre 01733 552439
31 March - 5 April at Richmond Theatre 020 8940 0088.
14 - 19 April at Cambridge Arts Theatre 01223 503333.
21 - 26 April at Brighton Theatre Royal 01273 328488.
28 April - 3 May at Mold Theatr Clwyd 01352 755114.
5 - 10 May at Bromley, The Churchhill Theatre 020 8460 6677.
13 - 17 May at Edinburgh Kings Theatre 0131 529 6000.
19 - 24 May at Bath Theatre Royal 01225 448844.
26 - 31 May at Guilford The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre 01483 440000.
Tour ends
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