TL:DR – A review of a Hunters Hill Theatre
production – Seasons Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn. Flirtatious middle age woman
in Hunters Hill!
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Hey fellows!, flirtatious middle age woman
are running amok in Hunters Hill! Well, they are
at least running amok in Hunters
Hill Town Hall during performances of a play Seasons
Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn. A male guest, a
famous author, joins an extended family for Christmas celebrations, and
receives much attention from all the women-folk. The hostess switches on her
charms, delighting the male guest late in the evening wearing only a thin slip.
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The play is about a dysfunctional British family and
it covers four days of the Christmas period of the year 1990. Neville and
Belinda Bunker have opened their home to other family members including a
peculiar doctor; Bernard, who has little regard for his occupational success.
The play had a few slow moments –
particularly in the middle of the first act. The pace of the later part of Act
1 and the whole of Act 2 was more to my liking. I was uncomfortable with the plot
development. For instance, it took some time for it to dawn on me why the
family had gravitated to Neville and Belinda Bunker’s house.
The cantankerous Uncle Harvey was a welcome addition
to the mix: he bought back memories of Christmases past. No family Christmas is
complete without an aged relative who is still living in yester-year! The author;
Clive, has perhaps the toughest acting gig in that he has to cope with being
both a guest in the house and an attraction of the ladies.
We were fortunate to attend on opening night.
The play runs through to 17 June 2018. The venue is very suited to a play with the
stage suitably elevated above viewers. Appropriately, a picture of Her Majesty gazed upon us subjects as we watched this British production.
Shalom,
Ozhamada
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