Period Theatre

[Gareth Hughes]

If anyone has any time free in between sanding dressers, stripping tallboys, installing fireplaces, having their flues looked at, looking after our less-celebrated historic monuments, and all the other things that take up the leisure hours, I can thoroughly recommend Alan Bennett's very, very funny play "People", currently at the National Theatre but due to tour the outer reaches of the provinces (ie Plymouth, Norwich and other such places) in the autumn.
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/discover/people-on-tour
I was very lucky to see it on Friday, in the company of another regular PPUKer. It will appeal particularly to anyone who gets a bit annoyed by "interactive" presentations of historic houses in which the visitor is confronted by a Sheraton table and an old mangle and is expected to be equally awed by them both, or who prefers to go into a country house through the front door rather than starting their tour in the servants' quarters.

 

[Flyfisher]

Mrs FF saw this recently in a cinema. The wonders of modern digital projection means that live events can now be transmitted by satellite to cinemas and projected in real time. Possibly not quite the same experience as live theatre but compared with a long, expensive and tiresome trip to the west end of London, a pretty good alternative I'd say. Might be worth checking at your local cinemas.

More National Theatre info here: http://www.cineworld.co.uk/whatson/event/Ntlive

 

[LadyArowana]

......due to tour the outer reaches of the provinces (ie Plymouth, Norwich and other such places) in the autumn.

Pity we don't still have an empire

 

[JoceAndChris]

It was indeed wonderful, very very funny, and Frances de la Tour superb, and sporting very similar outfits to mine - a kind of combination of nightwear, fur and wellies that only those who live in freezing country houses will truly understand. I have only one criticism of the play and it is that although a cat's bowl featured heavily as a plot device, and a cat clearly lived there, he did not appear. My kitten, Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson, would have loved a star turn.

Definitely worth the trip to the Great Wen though, especially combined with a trip round the lovely Wallace Collection.

 

[LadyArowana]

a kind of combination of nightwear, fur and wellies that only those who live in freezing country houses will truly understand.

I think Zebra has been sporting a somewhat similar look, although of course she grows her own fur.

 

[Zebra]

Ha ha! It's just as well you can't see what I've got on my back feet!

 

[Flyfisher]

Kinky Boots?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83DXny5IQyM