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Attic are better known for their musical productions, so it was
nice to get the opportunity to see them producing a "straight
play", obviously something they should do more often judging by
this performance.
For those who might
have thought that the film Sliding Doors was a new
concept, this was proof that Priestley beat them to it by some
fifty years, showing the audience what might have happened if
the characters has simply let the "music box" moment pass, that
potentially Dangerous Corner in their lives and had
simply listened to the radio instead.
It was also good to
see that they resisted the temptation to contemporise this
production, leaving it set in the Thirties, with a set that
perfectly reflected the period from Designer Alan Rennie.
Attic managed to
peel off the layers of humanity from their characters, revealing
a world of thirties hedonism, under that faint veneer of middle
class respectability. I particularly enjoyed Joan Logan's
emancipated Freda Caplan and Loraine Mudie as the not so quite
priggish Olwen Peel. Whilst all characters worked well
together, I did find the discrepancy in ages somewhat
distracting invoking a definite stretch in credibility.
Nevertheless, a great evening's entertainment.
Geoff Greavey
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