Entertaining Mr Sloane is by Joe Orton and English writer who was sadly murdered in 1967. This play has a sinister side to it too, I wonder if he was anticipating his own demise?
Kath (Alice Livingstone) is a lonely woman looking for love in her newly found lodger the young Mr Sloane (Brynn Loosemore). Ed (Pete Nettell), Kath's brother, who is a bit of a spiv also rather likes the Mr Sloane and gets him to work for him as his driver. Kemp or Dada (Frank McNamara), their father, is the only one who really knows who Mr Sloane real is. The first act in particular is extremely funny. Alice really played her role to perfection as the flirtation and slightly mad Kath. The second act was more sinister though it wasn't as tense as maybe it could have been and there was certainly less humour in it.
It was a thoroughly enjoyable performance. All the actors but particularly Alice were brilliant. The staging gave that slightly old, musty sort of a feel about it, that if you were actually there you would want to wash your hands when you left!
You must go and see this, it was theatre as theatre should be, a great night of entertainment.
