No Sex Please We're British

As Sarah Hinchliffe had mentioned in her ‘Director’s Notes',  there was an expectation of a non-PC British humour of bygone years – but I’m pleased to have witnessed this well played, raucous evening’s entertainment translated very well and gave us all an excellent evening’s entertainment.

Frances Hunter – played by Jasmine Briscoe - worked very well with Eli Harnett, her awfully ‘nice’, assistant bank manager, stage husband Peter Hunter. They were truly ‘on song’ with the politeness and slight sense of embarrassment of recently married couples we expected to be displayed back in the day. Lovely ‘darlings’. Of course, the ‘mother-in-law’ was going to intrude at some stage, and it wasn’t very long before Eleanor Hunter – played by Alison Cook - made her mark. Elegant, assured and dare I say - self-possessed – she truly made her presence known immediately and thereafter. Brian Runnicles - inhabited by Dan Cole – was the focus of the slapstick element of the evening. His need to hide an endless supply of imported porn (mistakenly assigned, of course) gave us some amazing acrobatics! Awe-inspiring Brian! I hope you survived the ‘run’ unscathe. Leslie Broomhead, the Bank manager and love interest of Eleanor, was elegantly played by Clive Thompson. The remaining cast of delivery man, police and ‘ladies at work’ gave maximum energy to their time on stage. In fact no-one just ‘turned up’ – you were all a great team.Of course your Creative colleagues, as always, had everything in the right place at the right time. The set design, build and lighting were so well imagined and constructed – doors, hatches, stairs, décor – fabulous. In fact, everything was on song – wardrobe, hair and make-up – right on style for period characters, and action. 

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