Blood Brothers by Susan Arden5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() When Arden jokes – correctly – that his wife is trying to poison him she flings spoonfuls of thick broth onto the floor in hysterics saying she can do nothing right. When Arden suspects Alice of having an affair with a “butcher’s boy” Alice shows herself to be a good actress convincing him otherwise with fake over-the-top demonstrations of affection.Īlice’s “chav” lover Mosby – a great performance by Keir Charles – struts the stage chewing gum in black skinny jeans with a gold chain, hi-top trainers and single earring – only taking the gum out of his mouth to kiss her. Polly Findlay’s funny modern revival of this anonymous Jacobean black comedy is filled with slapstick, chavs, visual gags and lots of blood. The play opens inside a warehouse as workers in green overalls pack and unpack dozens of waving lucky Chinese fortune cats into boxes plastered with his wife’s face. ![]() Her husband Arden, the fantastic Ian Redford, is an entrepreneur selling kitsch tat. ![]() Mistresses' star Sharon Small is perfectly cast as the unfaithful doe-eyed glamour puss Alice Arden scheming to murder her wealthy older husband with her lover.īrash and coquettish Alice is a colourful character in bold, figure-hugging clashing prints, gold jewellery, spiky heels and a palette of blue eye-shadow. ![]()
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