Well, Victoria Wood was Victoria Wood. All the classic signs and trademarks were there although if I'm honest, it felt a little like unfinished business. Great idea - drawing parallels between kids expressing themselves through music and them doing the same when they were middle-aged because they couldn't say what they wanted to in 60s Britain. Highlights included a song about dining out at a Berni Inn (we journey into / our Berni Inn to / have a lovely meal...) and one about sexual frustration (I have a box of sex tricks / that make me hum like a Scalextrix ...) but not a lot else. The fat girl was good though. And Ms Wood was 4 rows in front of us in the audience so it would have been rude to boo.
It was very much a local crowd unlike a lot of the other stuff in the Festival and I think that was pretty much the point of it. I expect to see it developed further and then re-done as TV show and it will be all the better for the extra time spent on it. Out to Alchemist afterwards for drinks which is always good fun. Wagner tonight (plays Darth Vader music in head as can't hum any Wagner. Yet). That's all. J x
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