This rave-reviewed production by Rebecca Frecknall of Tennessee Williams's play was engaging from the start. The audience is presented with a semi-circle of nine pianos from which the actors emerge and retreat. The star of the evening is undoubtedly Patsy Ferran who plays Alma, a sheltered daughter of a pastor. She has longings for John (played by Matthew Needham), the boy next door who is following in his father's footsteps as a doctor. The play essentially plays out the evolution of their doomed never-to-start relationship. First John wants Alma; then, once she is ready, he has married someone else.
It is a thoroughly absorbing evening but frankly it was not one that I found myself thinking about nor remembering for long in any detail. The point of the reviews also seemed to concentrate very much on the quality of the acting.
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