Details

A funny and poignantly recognisable portrait of a couple whose five minutes of candid conversation - just as they're about to go out to a dinner party - launches their lives into crises and anarchy! Will normality be resumed before the starter is ruined?

Cast/Performers

Griff Rhys Jones, Janie Dee

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Jean Dell, Gerald Sibleyras
Producer(s): Theatre Royal Bath Productions, PW Productions, Julyan Ltd
Adapted by: Belinda Lang
Director: Belinda Lang

An Hour and a Half Late

An Hour and a Half Late (Play) production archive for QTIX code T365201716. Details of all An Hour and a Half Late archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S01651703411

Archive Listings

28 Mar 22 to 2 Apr 22	Malvern Theatres Malvern, Worcestershire Performance Details => Venue archive
21 Mar 22 to 26 Mar 22	Theatre Royal Brighton, East Sussex Performance Details => Venue archive
14 Mar 22 to 19 Mar 22	Malvern Theatres Malvern, Worcestershire Performance Details => Venue archive
7 Mar 22 to 12 Mar 22	Devonshire Park Theatre Eastbourne, East Sussex Performance Details => Venue archive
28 Feb 22 to 5 Mar 22	Richmond Theatre Outer London, Greater London Performance Details => Venue archive
16 Feb 22 to 26 Feb 22	Theatre Royal Bath, Bath & North East Somerset Performance Details => Venue archive

Reviews

Nick: 09Mar22:
I did not enjoy it. Empty and vacuous not even the hard work of Janie Dee could save it. She is luminous throughout, the main problem if Gryff. He just tries too hard and ends up being as monotonous as his character. I really wanted to enjoy this play but ended up wanting to throttle the pair of them. Quite why the Sunday Times review was so ecstatic is beyond me.

SilverSurfer: 03Mar22:
I have never before so wanted to leave a play prior to its conclusion.. a cringingly empty female married to a nice if perhaps boring Tax Consultant, both approaching retirement - which she views as a terminal illness. Apparently having done nothing of worth since marriage, giving up her career for the children (really? And obviously she was incapable of even charitable work) has led a selfish, self-centred life. What was entertaining? Being many years older than her, retirement was the start of being my own boss! Two characters with no money worries, 3 healthy children, a new grandchild and no serious illnesses apart from the wife’s midlife crisis (where she takes delight in bringing everyone down). I am familiar with depression (my mother was bi-polar) but this was utterly trivial and if it intended to show a delicate mind suffering, it failed miserably. One or two funny lines in an otherwise boring hour which was like being at a dinner party and watching a domestic ‘discourse’ between two people who were not even YOUR friends!

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