By the time young bride Elizabeth (Callina Anderson) climbs into bed with sleeping solicitor Tristram (Christopher Szeto-Joe) in the bedroom of The Pines, a stately fixer-upper which may be haunted, the crazy quilt plot of Alan Ayckbourn's 1979 comedy of errors, Taking Steps, has spun into delicious delirium. In the...
By the time young bride Elizabeth climbs into bed with sleeping solicitor Tristram in the bedroom of The Pines, a stately fixer-upper which may be haunted, the crazy quilt plot of Alan Ayckbourn 's 1979 comedy of errors,In the meantime, tycoon husband Roland is comatose in the attic, an apparent suicide confirmed by Lizzie's brother Mark and conniving owner of the estate, Leslie ; while Mark's fickle fiancee Kitty has been unintentionally blocked in the closet from any means of...
After three months of marriage to the much older and alcoholic Roland, young Elizabeth is stifled. She calls herself a “dancer,” but Roland admits she's only some untalented disco gyrator. She wants out of the marriage, and with the assist from brother Mark finally makes her escape, leaving a goodbye note for Roland, which of course is only found much later to gum up the works.
This is all so very English comedy, you'd expect Terry Thomas or one of the Carry On nutties to appear to sort things out. But this whirligig play carries on without any outside help. The lulls are few indeed, lessened perhaps by Main Street's director Andrew Ruthven's propensity to allow the actors to yell at each other in times of crisis. The comedy's over-the-top as it is; it doesn't need to be pushed.
Szeto-Joe, as innocent abroad, sputters his legal incomprehension with precision. Hays is unctuous personified as leather-clad Leslie. Anderson is comically full of herself. With his resonant baritone, Alford plays self-delusion like a Chopin etude; and Moore exudes '70s English bird, a Valley Girl from the Thames.
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