Where were wobbly sets?

2:42pm Tuesday 13th May 2008

THE Ullenhall Players must do better than this.

Their recent production at the Palace Theatre , Who Goes Bare' - presented as an amateur production, was clearly nothing of the sort. Why oh why did they choose to serve up a thinly disguised first rate professional production of a kind which frankly gives amateur dramatics a bad name?

At no point did we get the impression that this company would make a late entrance, drop a line, miss a cue, kill a joke, struggle for a laugh or hold up a wobbly set and quite honestly it just won't do!

On a hot spring night, when any self respecting person should have been at home tending to a barbecue, we could have at least hoped for a quiet couple of hours of toe-curling embarrassment in a near empty theatre. But no!

Yes, I appreciate that these actors aren't paid and maybe we could forgive them for occassionally slipping out of amateur mode when perhaps they were tired - but I understand this has been going on all week.

So come on Ullenhall, let's try a little harder next time. At least one entrance through the fire place would be a start.

Really what is the point of struggling into Birmingham to see professional theatre when we have this on our doorstep.

I suppose it'll be the same again next year.

Justin Wilks

Alcester

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