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Summer Lightning.
Adapter - Giles Havergal, from the novel by P.G. Wodehouse.
Director – Richard Baron.
Lighting Designer - Ace McCarron.
Set & Costume Design - Ken Harrison.
Sound Design - Ronnie McConnell.
Company - Pitlochry Festival Theatre Company Company
Website.
Cast - here .
Venue - Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Box Office telephone 01796
484626.
In Rep 2006 Dates and Times - here .
Run Time - 2 hours 10 mins including one interval.
Reviewer - Jan Natanson.
Assured adaptation, slick, assured production.
From the moment we see Ken Harrison's set, we know exactly where
we are. It is gorgeous, bright, sun lit and pastel coloured. But it gives
dreary reality a swerve and exuberantly embraces its cardboard cut-out-ness.
It's the idealised country house from the comic genius that is P.G.Wodehouse
- Blandings Castle complete with topiary pigs. The action takes place
there and at other venues in London in the 1920s.
The world of Wodehouse's fiction - of disapproving aunts, eccentric aristocrats
and jolly young gals and nice but dim young men - is familiar and makes
for splendidly entertaining comedy situations. This slick, assured production,
directed by Richard Baron, fully realises such comedy potential and adds
a few surprises along its sparkling way.
One of the joys of his novels is the amount of fun and comedy in his
language and style of writing. Giles Havergal's assured adaptation
manages to keep that important element without slowing down the pace of
dramatic action in a witty and shimmering with life script. The play rattles
along with the actors work hard at making it seem so effortless, so that
we, the audience can sit back and enjoy the verve and wit.
The cast vividly bring the various characters to life and engage the audience
in their problems as the plots twists uncurl. This is a wonderful ensemble
performance by the cast to produce an entertaining, witty and slick production.
Smiling faces leave the auditorium the result of a play engaging the audience
fully.
©Jan Natanson 15 June, 2006 - Published on EdinburghGuide.com.
Cast - Beach - Martyn James, Hugo Carmody -
Darrell Brockis, Lord Emsworth - Jonathan Battersby, Lady Constance Keeble
- Jenny Lee, Millicent Threepwood - Flora Berkeley, Galahad Threepwood
- Robin Harvey Edwards, Sue Brown - Amy Ewbank, Ronnie Fish - Anthony
Glennon, Pilbeam - Richard Addison
2006 Dates of Pitlochry Festival Theatre's
production of Summer Lightening.
Runs in rep 18 May
- 21 Oct.
18 May* at 2pm and 8pm, 20 May* at 8pm, 26 May at 8pm..
3 June* at 2pm, 7 June* at 2pm, 10 June* at 8pm, 14 June* at 8pm,
17 June* at 2pm, 22 June at 8pm, 26 June at 8pm.
1 July* at 8pm, 5 July* at 8pm, 8 July* at 2pm, 15 July* at 2pm,
19 July* at 8pm, 22 July* at 8pm, 27 July at 8pm.
2 August* at 8pm, 5 Aug* at 8pm, 8 Aug at 8pm, 9 Aug* at 2pm, 14
Aug at 8pm, 19 Aug* at 2pm, 26 Aug* at 8pm, 31 Aug* at 8pm.
5 September at 8pm, 6 Sept* at 2pm, 13 Sept* at 8pm, 18 Sept at
8pm, 23 Sept* at 2pm, 30 Sept* at 8pm.
10 October at 8pm, 12 Oct* at 8pm, 16 Oct at 8pm, and final performance
21 Oct* at 2pm.
Theatre Editor, Thelma Good's e-mail is
thelma@edinburghguide.com
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