![]() ![]() ![]() In walks jaunty Judy in candy-striped full-skirted dress and heels, the perfect Stepford Wives hostess doll and model 'fifties housewife. Nostalgia and retro-fashion (there are casual pokes at people sucking on biros-vaping-instead of those wonderful cigarettes) are taken down with dry irony (“The Great Pretender” one of the song tracks).Ī doll’s house set in Mad Men promotional style, a 'fifties Ideal Homes showroom: sitting room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom (pink flamingos shower curtain) with stairs dissecting. Why aren’t we dancing in the aisles? Lucky Hywel Morgan and Siubhan Harrison as Marcus and Fran, friends of and foils for the lead protagonists, jive the night away, covering scene changes with their polished moves. ![]() ![]() Were gender politics ever as much fun as in Laura Wade’s genial yet barbed Home, I’m Darling? A playlist soundtrack (Tom Gibbons sound design) that sets the mood, heads jiggling, and tracks the cracks in a faux 'fifties lifestyle quality bopping (choreography by Charlotte Broom of HeadSpaceDance and formerly dancer with Northern and Cullberg Ballet Companies) a fabulous set from Anna Fleischle tight direction from Tamara Harvey and performances that sparkle with knowing wit and charm under Lucy Carter’s stylish Hitchcockian lighting. ![]()
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