![]() ![]() That went down extremely well with the punters.ĭirector Ellie Jones’s cast do well, Mr Strange and Miss Howard creating all-too believable Highgate handwringers. In those shouts of support from the London theatre-goers one perhaps sensed an unleashing of frustration against the political Establishment’s romanticism of ‘ordinary people’ and ‘the North’ and this clagging guilt so many middle-class nincompoops feel about chasing success.Īlong the way, Tony Blair comes in for a few barbs, Betts cheerfully suggesting that the great peace-maker should be thrown in an Iraqi prison cell. This won cheers from the audience at Monday’s final preview. This finally explodes with a terrific speech of rage by Oliver against snippety, miserablist, people-hating Emily. Some of them are pushed beyond plausibility but they help create a sense of rising pressure amid the farce. There are quite a few awkward moments, actually. That causes an awkward moment when Emily scorns the war effort. The neighbours are Dawn (Samantha Seager), all fake tan and boobs, and her beer-guzzling husband Alan (Daniel Copeland), whose vast belly is swathed in an England replica football shirt. They claim they are delighted to be living alongside ‘real people’ but when neighbours come visiting it is all too plain what these middle-class liberals think of them. The pair have moved to the North of England (people like Emily and Oliver regard ‘the North’, ew, as a generic entity) to find affordable property. Her partner Oliver (Darren Strange) is an incorrigibly wet civil servant who has just lost his job. Boy, it doesn’t half stick it to the Guardian-reading classes.įorty-something Emily (Laura Howard) is an arts coordinator/Amnesty International volunteer shrivelled not only by her socialist obsessions – she hates marriage, big business, patriotism, materialism, etc – but maybe by a deeper sadness. ![]() What do arid, snobbish Left-wingers really think of the ‘working classes’? Playwright Torben Betts chews on this question in a refreshing, Ayckbourn-style comedy which has just transferred to central London. Invincible, featuring Darren Strange and Samantha Seager, ponders what the left-wingers think of the 'working classes' ![]()
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