This is the sort of play/production that we like so much more in theory than we do in practice.
Here is a link to the Orange Tree’s excellent on-line resource for this production.
The idea of it is wonderful. It is an innovative 1960’s play exploring the meaning of life through the story of a successful man who decides to become a hermit.
Also, James Saunders had a long association with Sam Walters and the Orange Tree, which was being celebrated by this revival.
The play does have flashes of brilliance, humour and insight to it, but in truth we found it fairly hard going as an evening in the theatre. There is one heck of a lot of existential angst involved.
Here is a link to a search term that finds the reviews.
I remember being quite excited by the coincidence of the koi carp on the cover of the programme…
…The Price Of Fish (still available at all good book outlets, including the one you can click through here and below) was first released that very same weekend, resplendent with its dollar koi imagery:
