‘A comedy that was clearly an audience hit.’
Imagine four women released from their fish factory jobs to go on the razzle at Royal Ascot…frighteningly hilarious! This had all the ingredients for a right royal romp. The principals were well cast and the script was good.
Director Christine Faulconbridge, ensured that the principals carved out four very believable characters, who revealed surprises about themselves after a few tipples and there were some hilarious lines. Unbelievably, three of the four were stage debutantes. l)
Sally Thomas-Frederic, particularly impressed as glamorous Shelly, who nearly had a fling with TV presenter, Jim, (Tony Ruscoe). Emma Horspool, as lonely Linda, melted our hearts as she befriends Irish jockey, Patrick (Simon Palmer). Lisa Jarvis, as Jan, shed her normally sensible image and made an amusing drunk. Theatre stalwart, Hazel Cook, made up the team as (apparently) happy housewife, Pearl. Her scene with fancy man, Barry, sensitively played by Nick Turrell, was touching. The cast was completed by Tim Hands, and Kevin Norris. It was a good end to the season with a comedy that was clearly an audience hit.
(edited from Gordon Birch’s review in the Harborough Mail