Theatre: Guesthouse........

“It is 1966. I am sixteen years old and I am on the Venetian bridge with Brian Joy from the Golden Sands Guesthouse and he has bought me a 99 and I am on top of the world. Now I am 16, I know what boys want and why you mustn’t give it to them.”

Tensions are high in Clacton-on-Sea. Guesthouse owner Val has been taken ill and both her estranged daughter Lisa and ambitious grand-daughter Chloe have arrived to lend a hand. Chloe is close to Val, having spent most of her childhood raised by her grandmother. But Lisa and her mother are not on best terms. In this poignant and beautifully observed drama, three generations of women have to set aside differences as they decide the fate of their family-run B&B.

Guesthouse asks what's it like when the town you were proud to grow up in becomes impoverished? What does it take to keep going? And what does it take to face the truth?

Written by Essex playwright Nicola Werenowska and directed by Tony Casement this new play will tour across the East of England.

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It was lovely to have a trip to the Sir John Mills Theatre as it's a beautiful old building of character and you're part of quite a small intimate audience.

This performance was brilliant, just three women as the three generations of a disjointed family with all bonds of family ties stretched almost to breaking point by resentments and jealousies of what had gone before.

Each piece of what had gone before was slowly revealed with the clever use of projected images onto a curtain at the same time as Val is reliving how it all started and developed into the family that's now left.

Our group of four all enjoyed it immensely but did think it was a bit of an abrupt ending with so many questions unanswered......Maybe they'll make a sequel.
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