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Mum pushed over the edge
GOING POTTY
New End Theatre
PERHAPS every harassed mother has considered locking themselves in a wardrobe.
In Kate Wyvill’s new play, that is exactly what mother-of-three Emma does. Using a walkman to replace squealing with Sinatra, she shuts herself away from the potty training and the school run, but most of all from her less than helpful husband Robert.
Author Wyvill also plays the two female leads, stay-at-home mum Emma, and single office temptress Sally. Her acting is often excellent, avoiding the obvious trap of making the mother too sympathetic.
This is all the more impressive since she wrote the play as a reaction to having kids.
In fact, at times the mother seems petulant and ungrateful, with her lady in to do the ironing, and extensive collection of rather expensive-looking shoes.
While her husband Robert often comes across as the more reasonable human being, despite his near-affair and household unhelpfulness.
And it does have some genuinely funny moments – Robert in full garden regalia and helmet taking a chainsaw to the wardrobe door, and Emma preparing her hideout with an espresso machine and a Winnie the Pooh lunchbox full of truffles.
Until April 1
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