THE VICAR OF DIBLEY

The stage show is based on a few of episodes of the popular television series and cleverly joins the individual programmes to produce a two act show.

The challenge of taking such a popular show and producing it on stage is that the audience expect a replica of their favourite characters. This presents a problem for the actor – do you mimic the well known characters that have been so successfully presented by those who appeared on the TV show or do you risk performing your own characterisation?

The medium of television can allow static scenes to become quite active by using different camera angles which makes the scenes interesting. The staging of this show mainly takes place either in the parish council meetings or the vicar’s home, both presenting restrictive movement.

Quince Players production was very well cast with some excellent individual performances and I was pleased that many opted to introduce their own understanding of the characters. Although the dialogue was slick with excellent cue bit, I felt many of the scenes lacked energy owing to the restrictive settings.

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