All I know is that on New Years Eve the delivery of this line caused me to fall into hysterics for the umpteenth time whilst watching See How They Run at the Royal Exchange.
2 vicars, an actor (serving in the forces) dressed as a vicar, a Nazi POW on the run (and dressed as a vicar), a bishop, an inebriated parishioner, the vicar's wife and a somewhat demented maid.... what more could you ask for?
A farce performed in the round - much leaping over sofa's to hide - and actors pelting out of a door to run round the outside of the theatre pod and back in on the other side.
A perfect end to to a year of theatre highlights. An so on to 2009. Next week we are at the Octagon to see Danny Champion of the World. Anthony Sher's Tempest at the RSC Courtyard is already booked for February. As is Mary Poppins at the Palace Manchester and M's birthday trip to see a schools production of the Comedy of Errors at the Courtyard in July. Sometimes I think that I should just turn this into a theatre blog - but then where would I put the cute pictures of M and B?
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