Talking Heads (2006)

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Talking Heads (2006)

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Directed By
Alan Wiseman

Production Type
Nomads Production

Production Location
Studio Theatre

Turnout: 82%

User Rating: (Awaiting votes)

Flier Summary:



	by Alan Bennett

Production Dates & Prices: (Please note Booking Information)



Date	Time	Price
Saturday 10th June 2006	8:00pm	£6.00
Tuesday 13th June 2006	8:00pm	£6.00
Wednesday 14th June 2006	8:00pm	£6.00
Thursday 15th June 2006	8:00pm	£6.00
Friday 16th June 2006	8:00pm	£6.00
Saturday 17th June 2006	8:00pm	£6.00

Cast: (in programme order)

Crew: (in programme order)



Alan Wiseman	... Director

Official Review:

Talking Heads the review

Reviewer: Tony Flook

It's essential for the performer to fully understand and be able to express the character portrayed. Some of the raconteurs in this production, directed by Alan Wiseman, had a better feel than did others.

In A Chip in the Sugar, John Irwin gave an insight into Graham, a repressed bachelor with a symbiotic, if fluctuating, relationship with his mother. He appeared a little uncertain on the first night and his moves did not always seem spontaneous. He did, though, show empathy for the man whose sheltered existence is briefly threatened and his relief shone through when his normal, comfortable way of life was restored.

Elaine Burns was not fully convincing as Lesley, the gullible actress in Her Big Chance. She did not always show the essential bubbly naivetÃ© needed to bring out her character's self-deluding eternal optimism. It was also unfair on the actress to break this piece with an interval; it, as all the others in the series, needs to be played continuously.

More thought could also have been given to the music linking the sequences in the first two plays. Similar (possibly the same) dramatic chords were used for both and didn't sound particularly suited to either.

Nomads saved the best for last. It was so easy to understand Doris, portrayed by Joan Partridge, in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee. We could sympathise with the old lady, although she stubbornly refused help even after a serious fall, for fear of being confined to an old people's home. The actress totally immersed herself in her role and had the skill to communicate with the listener - to the extent that there was almost a compulsion to want to go to help her into a chair and try to reason with her.

Review courtesy of Tony Flook for the Leatherhead Advertiser

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Recommendations:


Talking Heads Paperback
The Complete Talking Heads DVD
Talking Heads BBC Audio CD

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