As we start the second half of the challenge, things are going well:
Monthly Theatre Visit ✅
Different Theatre each visit ✅
It was a bit of a struggle to find a production for July for various reasons, they either wouldn’t fit in the diary or only at repeat venues. But we found one!
Production: Charley’s Aunt
Venue: Sewell Barn Theatre, Norwich
Charley’s Aunt, first performed in 1892 and written by Brandon Thomas, is a farce across three acts. Now it was reasonably funny in places, although there were people in the audience who found it possibly the funniest thing they have ever seen!
Sewell Barn Theatre is a 100 capacity venue set within the grounds of Sewell Park Academy in Norwich. We were attending the afternoon matinee performance, which meant free tea/coffee on arrival.
We quite enjoyed it. We’re not natural fans of the farce, in fact this was probably our first encounter with a live performance. The acting was reasonably good, the plot fast-paced and plenty of opportunity for hilarity and farcical behaviour.
It enters the chart at number 3.
- An Inspector Calls
- Dracula
- Charley’s Aunt
- 1984
- Metamorphosis
- Shakespeare Revisited
- Edgeland
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