Bedroom Farce

~~This was the first venture of a play, performed by the Bradford Players, following their union with Heaton AODS.  The play was a typical Alan Ayckbourn play, full of twists and turns, almost Gilbertian in its concept.
For the size of the stage the set designers (Carl Murray & Jono Gatsby) had worked wonders, fitting three completely differently styled and decorated bedrooms into such a small area.  The characters too, worked exceptionally well together and were totally believable as couples, although somehow, I would have liked a little more movement from some of the players and I think this could have been accomplished in the space allowed. 
Craig Deacon & Alyson Sykes (Ernest & Delia) were the more mature couple, Richard Barran & Debbie Cross (Malcolm & Kate) were ‘loves young dream’ , Andy McDonald & Katrina McEachran (Nick & Jan),the more comedy couple.  I am not sure how many times Andy fell out of bed in different ways purportedly suffering from a bad back!!.The ‘odd’ couple completed the cast, Richard Hall (Trevor) and Louise Blackburn (Suzannah) and the play revolved around their relationship and how that affected the others.  Richard had everyone laughing at his attempts at ‘Do it Yourself’ while his wife Debbie was certainly very pretty eye candy for the men in the audience.

For their first attempt at a straight play, it was a difficult one to produce but the Players gave it their all and a very enjoyable evening was enjoyed by the audience.

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