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Two & Bed (Methuen Modern Plays) (Modern Classics)

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The Landlord then informs the audience that time has passed and that he cares dearly about the profits of the pub unlike his wife. The Rise and Fall of Little Voice - Winner of: Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy of the Year; Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy directed by Sam Mendes.

The next explorative strategy I used was hot seating. Hot seating is when a chosen character from the play is put into a chair and is asked questions by someone outside of the play. I have also learnt that Lesley might not have thought through marrying Roy at the time and is now not strong enough to leave him.

And absorbed you will be. A massive success on all counts, Greg Hersov's interpretion of this richly woven play is engaging, hilarious, heartachingly sad and above all, honest. Go and pay a visit before it ends on February 25th. The lights come up on Joey’s room. Two weeks later. Joey is sitting up in bed with his arm around Clare. She is sleeping. Joey’s face really shows the strain now, it is taut and white. From doing these explorative strategies I have learnt that Roy is a shallow and insecure character and is afraid of Lesley leaving him. He might even be a sexist because he is acting like Lesley is an inferior and like she needs to be controlled. The mysterious Woman speaks to the audience about a man who she had an affair with her and she is in the pub because she loves him and wants him to leave his wife for her. The audience don’t know who she had the affair with but normally presume it with the Landlord. Only to realise that it is not and she missed her chance with him. From doing this explorative strategy I have learnt that there can be a lot of conflict in a relationship, also some people may not necessarily marry for love, but rather for money or social status, this seams to be the case with the Igors.

From doing this explorative strategy it helped me understand what happens as couples get older and how old age can affect people. This gave me a more in depth look at the struggle the old women was going through, looking after her immobilized husband and resisting the temptation of going off with the butcher.

To which I replied “I wouldn’t dream of it ma’ boy, for my wife and I are still bound together. As soon as I leave this body an empty shell, Ma’ wife and I will be together for the rest of time.”

Landlord yet again moves the play on to the end of the night. Also speaking to the audience re-engaging them in the play again. The scenes we looked at were Roy and Lesley and Mr. and Mrs. Igor. We choose these scenes because they have strong characters and they both look at faithfulness; Roy is trying to enforce Lesley to stay with him and Mrs. Igor is clearly being unfaithful because she states that she loves big men and she describes her husband as “Mr. feeble” I don’t think the old man is the type of person to find someone else because he considers his wife to be his soul mate, even after death. There is the old woman dropping in for a drink at the end of a gruelling day in which she has coped with her incontinent husband. There is the little old man who still talks to his dead wife and the conniving Scouser, Moth, who uses all means at his disposal to get inside his girlfriend’s purse. There’s Roy, the sadistic and controlling abuser of his girlfriend Lesley and most poignantly of all, there’s the lad whose dad forgot him on his way out. Linking them all are the Landlord and Landlady, constantly rowing because tonight is the anniversary of an event they cannot bear to discuss.

RAZ - Edinburgh Festival (Winner of Fringe First Award 2015), 2016 Trafalgar Studios, London & Nationwide tour. Directed by Anthony Banks. This wonderfully observed character study of a traditional pub, its eccentric customers and its warring landlord and wife won the Manchester Evening News Best New Play award in 1989 and has been in production somewhere around the world ever since. It offers a credible view of a succession of ordinary people, seeking shelter from the miseries of their existence. It also goes someway to exploring the British love affair with the pub as the heart of a community; an escape and a refuge from everyday problems. In true working-class tradition, Two has the structure of a variety show. Sharp-talking comedy makes way for bleak urban poetry; there are plenty of laughs and big dollops of sentiment.’ The Guardian She closes her eyes. Joey holds her. He makes a fist. He shakes it at the audience. He shakes it up at the sky. He shakes it at the door where the family are outside. He shakes it down under the bed. Then he puts it in front of his face and bites into his hand.

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