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Thursday April 4, 2019
Home, I'm Darling
This is a witty play about a couple's decision (or more exactly the wife's decision) to turn the clock back in their domestic life to a simpler era - the 1950s. Judy (played by Katherine Parkinson) takes voluntary redundancy and decides to live a retro life - in decor, fashion, cooking, and relationship. Her husband appears to bask in his new role - but predictably, after a time it palls, and the financial reality begins to bite. This is a satire on the desire to move back to an artificial version of an era, existing only in the minds of most who hanker for it, but were not even alive at the time. It's a nostalgia for the "cup-cake" existence as enshrined by events like the Goodwood Revival - and although not wholly unreal, it's not how ordinary people living through that grey post-war era remember it most - definitely not the glamorous "New Look" or Joan Miro art available to Princess Margaret and Grace Kelly.
[But rather wearing your school gaberdine mac out to dances with the sleeves pushed up to try and look like a fashionable trench coat, even though it was a give-away shade of bottle green...].
Posted by Christina at 8:26 AM. Category: Days Out
