Love. Four simple letters that have caused more chaos, calamity, controversy and crisis than possibly all the other emotions combined. It can be heady and intoxicating one minute and heartbreaking the next. Yet still we mere mortals strive to be immersed in it as indeed there is nothing on earth that truly compares to this splendid thing.
Love and the lack thereof resonates and reverberates heavily in Basil Dawkins’ latest production ‘Once a man twice a wife’ playing at the Little Little Theatre. Man wants woman, but woman does not want man, yet she realizes that another woman wants the man who she does not want and therefore set wheels in motion to ensure that everyone gets what they want. Sounds simple enough, but the inner workings of the affairs of the heart is anything but, especially when social class is throw into the mix. It is one Molotov cocktail of drama delivered skilfully with both laughter and life lessons.The story surrounds the dysfunction of the Steele family and their helper who is both assisting them though their marital issues while assisting herself economically. Abigail Steele (played by Karen Harriott) is woman who knows what she wants and what she wants in not located in her marriage much to the despair of her long-suffering husband Byron (Earl Brown). He has a listening ear in Enid the helper (played by both Dorothy Cunningham and Patricia Morris) whose pseudo Christian antics is both earnest and entertaining as she has the run of the house when the cat is away, and she makes full use of it.
Funny with a good dosage of reality, ‘Once a man twice a wife’ had many lessons intertwined if theatregoers watched keenly enough, chief among which was the notion that real love was not without sacrifice and one should be careful that what you wish for was really what you desired long term. Kudos to Patrick Russell for set design and Douglas Prout for his direction of the actors who all delivered well, though the character of Enid was the star of the production, and Cunningham breathed life into the role with timing and comedic chops that had audience members rolling in the aisle and talking to the characters as if they expected a response.
‘Once a man twice a wife’ was a certified hit with theatregoers who came expecting laughter and got that and much more.
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Love. Four simple letters that have caused more chaos, calamity, controversy and crisis than possibly all the other emotions combined. It can be heady and intoxicating one minute and heartbreaking the next. Yet still we mere mortals strive to be immersed in it as indeed there is nothing on earth that truly compares to this splendid thing.
Love and the lack thereof resonates and reverberates heavily in Basil Dawkins’ latest production ‘Once a man twice a wife’ playing at the Little Little Theatre. Man wants woman, but woman does not want man, yet she realizes that another woman wants the man who she does not want and therefore set wheels in motion to ensure that everyone gets what they want. Sounds simple enough, but the inner workings of the affairs of the heart is anything but, especially when social class is throw into the mix. It is one Molotov cocktail of drama delivered skilfully with both laughter and life lessons.The story surrounds the dysfunction of the Steele family and their helper who is both assisting them though their marital issues while assisting herself economically. Abigail Steele (played by Karen Harriott) is woman who knows what she wants and what she wants in not located in her marriage much to the despair of her long-suffering husband Byron (Earl Brown). He has a listening ear in Enid the helper (played by both Dorothy Cunningham and Patricia Morris) whose pseudo Christian antics is both earnest and entertaining as she has the run of the house when the cat is away, and she makes full use of it.
Funny with a good dosage of reality, ‘Once a man twice a wife’ had many lessons intertwined if theatregoers watched keenly enough, chief among which was the notion that real love was not without sacrifice and one should be careful that what you wish for was really what you desired long term. Kudos to Patrick Russell for set design and Douglas Prout for his direction of the actors who all delivered well, though the character of Enid was the star of the production, and Cunningham breathed life into the role with timing and comedic chops that had audience members rolling in the aisle and talking to the characters as if they expected a response.
‘Once a man twice a wife’ was a certified hit with theatregoers who came expecting laughter and got that and much more.
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