We'll Always Have Paris

We’ll Always Have Paris – is a play written by Jill Hyem whose writing career took off when she became one of the principal writers on the radio programme Mrs Dales Diary.  Her TV works include: the popular drama" Tenko", "Wish Me Luck", "Angels", "Nanny", Howards Way, a mini seies adaptation of Barbara Taylor Bradford's "Act of Will" and the costume drama "House of Eliot".

“We’ll Always Have Paris” is one of her theatre plays.  The quality of the script for this show is such that it had to have been written by someone totally in control of her craft which her biography indicates.

Three women of a ‘certain age’ gravitate to Paris. There’s Nancy, a retired headmistress determined to throw off the shackles; Anna, recently widowed – and free – after years of nursing a sick husband; and Raquel, a divorcee in search of eternal youth and a new toy boy. A feel-good play with laughter and tears, the promise of romance, friendship and anger together with the advantages and disadvantages of growing old.

This supper evening was exceedingly well organised with the food, the waiters, the interval entertainers and the musicians all an integrated part of the production.

The stage crew are to be commended on maintaining the time of day, the needs of the script and the requirements of the play.  Particularly impressive was the change in the view from the balcony which converted from day to night. 

Perhaps not “La Vie en Rose”, but “We’ll Always Have Paris” is certainly a play that left the audience charmed, amused, thoughtful – and singing!  Every individual involved in this play is to be congratulated on their contribution to this superb production

I cannot think of anything I did not like about this show.

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