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Talking to Spacehoppers - One4Review

This play written by Angela Truby and the performer Joanna Swain tells the story of late 30s Bev and the trials and tribulations of her life with or without her increasingly absent husband. Bev was, and still is, into Duran Duran and there are many references to them in this piece that at times is very reminiscent to Willy Russell’s Shirley Valentine, not least of which she talks to, instead of a wall, her childhood space hopper called George. Instead of vanishing to Greece, Bev enrolls in a stand up comedy evening class where she has a fling with a much younger classmate, not a local Taverna owner. There are bursts of her stand up routine included as her character development is enacted, and quite good it is as well. The play does not try to be ground breaking, but is well written and Ms Swain gives a thoroughly entertaining performance as the hapless housewife. ****

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