This play written by Angela Truby and the
performer Joanna Swain tells the story of late 30s Bev and the
trials and tribulations of her life with or without her increasingly
absent husband.
Bev was, and still is, into Duran Duran and
there are many references to them in this piece that at times is very
reminiscent to Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine, not least of
which she talks to, instead of a wall, her childhood space hopper
called George.
Instead of vanishing to Greece, Bev enrolls
in a stand up comedy evening class where she has a fling with a much
younger classmate, not a local Taverna owner. There are bursts of
her stand up routine included as her character development is
enacted, and quite good it is as well.
The play does not try to be ground
breaking, but is well written and Ms Swain gives a thoroughly
entertaining performance as the hapless housewife.
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