Post by duncan on Oct 16, 2016 8:36:01 GMT
Jings, crivvins and HELP MA BOAB! After 80 years of continuous publication the most famous residents of Glebe Street have finally made it to the stage. Last night being the final performance o week 4 of a 9 week tour.
...and at 160 minutes you'll come out of it needing a good bucket as this is comedy interspersed with songs. Its a cliched trawl through the Scottish songbook of The Proclaimers, Deacon Blue, Bay City Rollers et al.
Maggie announces her engagement, causing the other adult children to ponder where they are going in their life. Paw meanwhile has a wedding to pay for and Maw is worried about what will become of her when she is no longer "Maw"
When the best laughs are based around Hen then you know something has gone seriously wrong somewhere. Tyler Collins steals the show as a John Cleese-esque Hen and Kim Allan is suitably lovely as Maggie and at the same time catching that she is the blandest and dullest of the family so I dont know if that's a good performance or just that she is a but dull and bland as an actress. However the rest of the cast are acting off the good will of 80 years of being Scotland's Number 1 family and this means that it just doesnt hang together as a production - Joyce Falconer is playing it far too rough to be convincing as Maw Broon and the character arc she goes on in this is something the real Maw would never do in a million years.
As a result its too knowing and too arch for its own good and comes of as a flaccid copy of your childhood memories, even a last minute cameo fails to raise a smile.
And that ending, well obviously they are not going to change the status quo but its heartbreaking that it ends with all of the children putting aside their dreams and aspirations so that they can continue to live in the squalor, poverty and abject misery of Glebe Street as its the only thing they know. The daft gowks.
4/10 Michty me!
...and at 160 minutes you'll come out of it needing a good bucket as this is comedy interspersed with songs. Its a cliched trawl through the Scottish songbook of The Proclaimers, Deacon Blue, Bay City Rollers et al.
Maggie announces her engagement, causing the other adult children to ponder where they are going in their life. Paw meanwhile has a wedding to pay for and Maw is worried about what will become of her when she is no longer "Maw"
When the best laughs are based around Hen then you know something has gone seriously wrong somewhere. Tyler Collins steals the show as a John Cleese-esque Hen and Kim Allan is suitably lovely as Maggie and at the same time catching that she is the blandest and dullest of the family so I dont know if that's a good performance or just that she is a but dull and bland as an actress. However the rest of the cast are acting off the good will of 80 years of being Scotland's Number 1 family and this means that it just doesnt hang together as a production - Joyce Falconer is playing it far too rough to be convincing as Maw Broon and the character arc she goes on in this is something the real Maw would never do in a million years.
As a result its too knowing and too arch for its own good and comes of as a flaccid copy of your childhood memories, even a last minute cameo fails to raise a smile.
And that ending, well obviously they are not going to change the status quo but its heartbreaking that it ends with all of the children putting aside their dreams and aspirations so that they can continue to live in the squalor, poverty and abject misery of Glebe Street as its the only thing they know. The daft gowks.
4/10 Michty me!
