Date: April 26, 2013
Present: Nic, Pierre-Yves, Luuk, Kauser, Sandra, Carole, Nicola DL, Barbara (guesting for Gill)
Dinner: Pre-theatre at SUDA, Thai Cafe, Covent Garden
A charming, feel good play, with a happy ending that was not always foreseeable for those who hadn't seen the film or play before. Suranne Jones (Corrie fame) played the Mum with energy and clear enjoyment. However, there was something lacking, something ambiguous about her love for her son albeit they were obviously a more functional familial unit than that of her son's love interest and his unseen but violent and homophobic father (whose off stage presence created the tension felt by those unfamiliar with the story). It was the relationship and blossoming romance between the two boys that really charmed us: warm, gentle and charmingly and humorously portrayed.
We left smiling and singing Mama Cass songs, which was in stark contrast to how I left Peter and Alice on the same street the night before. And how it must have delighted the cabbie!
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