Phil Willmott navigates a steady course through Bernard Shaw’s turbulent Heartbreak House though he occasionally drifts away from meaningful satire and into jolly farce.
BOEING BOEING – Oldham Coliseum
We’re in Paris and it’s the swinging sixties and Bernard, a bachelor and highly successful Parisian architect, is flying by the tail wind of the Jet Age. With three fiancées, who are all air hostesses for different airlines and flying on different routes, he has managed to ensure that only one of the women is ‘at home’ in Paris at any one time. However, with the dawn of newer planes and faster aircraft, Bernard’s carefully timetabled system is put under severe pressure.