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Our Day Out by Willy Russell - Mr.Briggs

- York Theatre Royal.

A less-than-successful production of Willy Russell's musical play about a class of inner city kids (originally from Liverpool - here from Leeds) being taken for a coach trip to Scarborough. The play is justly famous, well-observed, unsentimental and witty. Our adult cast was excellent and the two sets of local schoolchildren who played the kids on alternate nights were astonishingly accomplished. Sadly the production suffered from a complete lack of any discernible ability in the director, who succeeded in scoring the astonishing double whammy of totally alienating both the kids and the adult cast very early in the rehearsal period. We really never recovered from the immense amount of time this wasted, nor from the low morale it caused. Although the show is strong enough in itself that the audiences enjoyed it most nights, it could have been so much more. A real shame.

"...Mr Briggs, the archetypal regimental schoolmaster (a wonderfully-observed performance by Jon Glentoran)." (The Stage)

"Jessica Sparnenn's flirtatious, sir-fancying Jackie stands out, alongside Glentoran's disapproving Briggs, as outdated as his brown suit..." (Yorkshire Evening Press)