by Jim Cartwright
Hope Mill Manchester Feb-March 2024
Anthony Banks’s production takes off. Cartwright’s new play fizzes and sparkles but it also stabs your heart and Matthew Kelly and Denise Welch have a ball with the comic opportunities it offers. **** Rachel Haliburton, The Times
A playful production by Anthony Banks is brisk and lightweight with enough of an edge to let the actors show a range that goes from sweet to sour. Played with wit and grit by Denise Welch and Matthew Kelly, they’re an abrasive double act, relishing and resenting their mutual dependency. A study of working-class expediency, the survival of two people who can only take each moment as it comes. Chris Fisher, The Guardian
The audacious adventures of Walter and Corral.
He’s back up north, she’s still down south.
They haven’t seen each other for fifty years, not since their Soho days, back in the swinging ’60s.
A chance phone call reunites them for one magical night and in next to no time, they’re back to their old tricks.
Cast Matthew Kelly, Denise Welch
Set Design Consultant Andrzej Goulding
Costume Designer Susan Kulkarni
Lighting Designer Jamie Platt
Music & Sound Ben & Max Ringham
Video Designer Sam Diaz
Choreographer Arielle Smith
Wig Designer Gilly Church
Production Photographer Pamela Raith
Producers Joe Houston, William Whelton
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