REVIEW: Ordinary Days, Hen and Chickens Theatre ✭✭✭
Ordinary Days Hen and Chickens Theatre 29 October 2016 3 Stars Adam Gwon’s delicious song-cycle-musical, first seen in London’s Off-West End a year before it arrived Off-Broadway in 2009 (subsequently also professionally produced in Australasia, Spain, Israel, Brazil and Scotland), makes a welcome return at the ever-enterprising room above an Islington pub that is the Hen & Chickens Theatre. In the hands of Streetlights, People! Productions – the invention of founders Nora Perone and Jen Coles – it receives a smartly eloquent interpretation from Coles who also directed. Fascinatingly, two of the cast – Perone (as Deb) and Emily Lynne (Claire) – come from the same part of the USA where the musical received its initial amateur production, at Penn State University (which is actually also Lynne’s alma mater). Arguably, this lends considerable depth of realism to this company. Their boys, the dippy Warren (Neil Cameron) and the more soulful … Read more
