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One long moan and then sexual innuendoes are the essence of this play until you look below the surface. John Godber is one of the best observers of human behaviour around and he certainly knows how to fool the audience into looking at themselves and then laughing at their funny little ways. It is subtlety done and you do not know that you are being used. That is why the audience go home wanting more. This time he looks at caravans; the stage displays a cut down van and the awning of another on a site near Scarborough.
Peer below the bluff facade and you will find the multi faceted characters underneath. Take neurotic ex-headmaster Ron (Iain Rogerson), his prim, keeping up appearances wife Yvonne, (Jennifer Ness), amiable slob Grant "the Grunt" (Bill Rodgers) and his down to earth girlfriend Steph (Vicky Binns), shack them all together and wait to see what happens. Basically everyone is the same underneath whether they like to admit it or not and that is what this play it telling the audience. Some will feel uncomfortable and others will recognise themselves, but all would subconsciously like to be some of the things that the others are. One thing to be sure of is that the actors did a really fine job.
If you get a good comfortable seat you will leave the theatre thinking and remembering bits of the plot the next day. Some seats were empty after the interval, the reasons could be varied, but if you stick it out your mind will have been got at. © BA
“Perfect Pitch” is in Hull from the 14th April, 2005 to the 7th May, 2005. Car parking charge £1. This is a No Smoking theatre.
