REVIEW: Drowning On Dry Land, New Wimbledon Theatre Studio ✭✭✭✭✭

Drowning on Dry Land by Bournyack Theatre Company

Drowning On Dry Land is one of Ayckbourn’s most tonally surprising and unstable works; technically it is also one of his most sparingly and yet also elaborately written, combining apparent thinness of dialogue with intricately complex plotting, where motivation and reactions are typically merely suggested with the most delicate of shading, with hints, or shadows of meaning.

Rare Revival Of Mother Adam Comes To Baron’s Court

Mother Adam by Charler Dyer at Baron's Court Theatre

Charles Dyer’s play Mother Adam will have a rare revival at the Baron’s Courth Theatre in June. Considered a witty and strange insight into loneliness and co-dependency, Mother Adam will star Legend of stage and screen Anna Carteret (Juliet Bravo) stars as Mammles. Celebrated for his Rattle of a Simple Man, Charles Dyer is considered one of the greatest British playwrights of the 20th Century. The whimsical world of a bed-ridden, arthritic mother and her sprightly son combines deft verbal comedy with buried emotions. Alongside Anna Carteret as the caustic Mammles, John Craggs plays her tragicomic son Adam. This under-performed gem of a play welcomes you to the strange, eccentric, funny and often very moving world of these two oddballs, which sees them playing out their Sunday routine through conversation that gives you an insight into their unusual existence. Anna Carteret was part of Laurence Olivier’s company at the Old … Read more