In a Partick there’s a quiet storm brewing. 71 year old Chrissy invites her two oldest friends, Jean and Coco, to her house as she has something to tell them. Read more …
Problem is her friends can’t stand each other but they’re eager to hear Chrissy’s announcement. The two OAPs rassle for Chrissy’s affection, slinging ancient mud at each other. Then comes the revelation: which changes everything. #71 sees three women who’ve spent most of their lives together explore the global reality that most people in the world are not exactly as they present themselves to said world: Do we really ever know each other?
The play goes some way to capturing the sheer oddness of being 71, in a world where threescore years and ten is somehow no longer considered quite enough.
Bookended by Charles Aznavour’s hit Dance in the Old Fashioned Way, this is an enjoyable end to the season’s A Play, a Pie and a Pint at the Traverse giving its lunchtime audience plenty of laughs and enough to ponder.
A Play, a Pie and a Pint, Glasgow from Monday October 23, 2017, until Saturday October 28, 2017. More info: http://playpiepint.com
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Tuesday October 31, 2017, until Saturday November 4, 2017. More info: www.traverse.co.uk
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