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Review: Robin Hood Theatre Company’s The Good Life




The Robin Hood Theatre Company certainly put the good in The Good Life this week.

The company is bringing the classic BBC sitcom to life in their latest production at the Robin Hood Theatre, Averham,.

And all the favourite characters are there, along with some familiar plotlines, adapted for the stage by Jeremy Sams.

Robin Hood Theatre Group brings The Good Life to the stage.
Robin Hood Theatre Group brings The Good Life to the stage.

Tom Good (Joe Denman) has reached is 40th birthday and is fed-up with his life as a developer of plastic toys to go in cereal boxes. Equally frustrated is his wife, Barbara (Rebecca Briggs-Price).

So, they decide to leave the rat-race behind them and go self-sufficient. Out go the asti spumante and manicured gardens and in comes vegetable patches, pigs and Gertrude the goat (who starred with help from Nicci Hindson).

It is much to the horror of their upper-class neighbours - the put-upon Jerry Leadbetter (Cavan McLoughlin) and his snobbish wife Margo (Caroline Hall).

Together with Jerry’s boss Sir Andrew (Jonty Redgate) and his wife Felicity (Luleta Berani) social gatherings are certainly livened up - especially after Harry the pig man (Caleb Mullarkey) adds his own special ingredient to the poppyseed cake!

Directed by Ziemek Kaczmarek, the show stays completely true to its television roots with lots of laughs, social commentary, lots and lots of farce - and a good helping of Peapod Burgundy wine.

Fans of the Seventies sitcom will really enjoy it and for those who have never seen it, now is the time to be introduced to what is still a great comedy.

The Good Life runs until Saturday.



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