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Travels with My Aunt
Malvern Theatres
*** THIS whirlwind production was forged in
the farm yards of Devon by Creative Cow, a touring theatre company,
directed by Amanda Knott and adapted by Giles Havergal from Graham
Greene’s novel. Henry Pulling a less than charming bank manager
has taken early retirement. A man of only few ambitions, tending his
garden and a passion for dahlias. He longs for the safety and predictability of a
quiet life but everything changes when he meets his small-time
swindling, septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in ore than
fifty years at his mother's funeral. Despite having little in common, Henry finds
himself drawn into his Aunt’s world of astonishing travel, infectious
adventure, desire for romance and espionage with Nazi war criminals. The action of the play takes place across various
countries in 1969 from Brighton to Paraguay and Paris to Istanbul on the
Orient Express, all using clever sound effects. Richard Earl, David Partridge, Jack Hulland and
Katherine Senior are four captivating actors who play all audacious
characters in this adaptation with a twist, as each of them play the
part of Henry and Aunt Augusta at different times and sometimes even at
the same time! Ultimately Henry finds himself finally feeling
alive but questioning his better judgement, surely it isn’t long before
he too will relish a little skulduggery? To Saturday 21-05-16 Johnathan Gray 18-05-16
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