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Ten
Times Table
A Comedy
by ALAN AYCKBOURN
16 - 20 March
2004
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What the critics say:
I don't
think this is one of Ayckbourn's best but if you have ever served
on or attended one of England's greatest traditions, a committee
meeting, then you know this story well. David Sheridan always turns in a good performance,
and the part of the chairman fitted him like a glove.
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I have always admired Richard
Pilborough and his pedantic and boring little secretary was
as usual a wonderful little characterisation.
If Alan Ayckbourn had known that Marian Baldwin was going to
play the hard-of-hearing, just-ever-so-slightly-infirm Audrey
Evans he would have given the character more lines. What Marian
managed to do with what she had was a lesson to all of us. |
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Tony
O'Leary gave a lovely performance as the lush Adamson, his inebriation
was absolutely convincing. Had he been over the pub? As Tim-pistol-under-his-pillow
Barton - David Armour-Chelu could have been just back from Iraq.
Very frightening. Good set, lighting and film sequence. Also
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Andrea
Sloman as the Thatcherite committee member, seeing Trots behind
the skirting, gave a powerful portrayal and Jean Andre (Red
Eric) was suitably provocative. Caroline Dunk (Sophie) and
Stephanie Dawson (Phillipa) were infuriatingly slavelike helpers
to Eric.
from
John Munson Show Time, The Downs Mail
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