Dolores steps up the Revs
Last updated 05:17, Friday, 28 November 2008
See How They Run, Victory Hall, Dalston Dolores McQuillin directs the cast of four vicars and a bishop, with a wife, a maid and a police sergeant thrown in, all part of the mayhem created in the farce by Phillip King.
And Dolores manages amazingly to make sense of the madness.
Middle-aged Rev Toop (John Allen) has married a young wife – an actress to boot – and as the central character Sarah Towler pulls this off well.
Around this situation is woven a hilarious farce with not all the vicars as they seem - an army corporal is in there (Richard Looker) and even an escaped German prisoner – Rob Graham brought a gleefully evil persona to this part. The Bishop – Alan Dawson – vague, but was it an act?
A new actor to the boards, Sarah Occleston as Ida the maid, played her essential part to perfection. Another debut was by Chris McNeill as Rev Humphrey - or was he?
The ramifications became legend – a drunken lady in a cupboard (Sandie Denwood) embracing a half-dressed vicar Toop – well it’s a rule there have to be long johns in a farce. Did the police sergeant (Jason Munn) sort it all out? Or was it curtains for the cast?
MARY HESLAM
