When we saw Jacquie and Hils Briegal for Christmas, we discovered that we were all going to see this play on the same night as couple of days later, along with Brother-in-law/Uncle Bernard Jacobs.
Typically, Jacquie said that Janie and I should join the family at her place for some supper after the show which we did.
Frankly, the play was rather dull. It’s funny how Howard Brenton tends to either get it very right or very wrong for me. this one missed the mark.
Fascinating subject, the partition of India, but what an old-fashioned “tell don’t show” history play it was.
Click here for a link to the Hampstead resource on this production.
Below is a video trailer with cast interviews:
Below is an interview with Howard Brenton about it:
The show got mostly good reviews – click here for a search term that finds them – so Janie and I form a minority view in that regard.
I think we were the least impressed among the family too.
What the family readily agreed, though, was that Jacquie’s supper spread and the family natter was the highlight of the evening. Bernard was in especially good form that night. Sadly, he passed away just before new year 2018 – more or less exactly four years after this splendid gathering, which I’m sure he enjoyed, as did we.