My 1st Review - The Chicken Shed Reunited

It's been an amazing week and I'll reflect on it all once I've had time to digest the whole experience, but for now here is the review of the double bill including my play. I can't complain...but I can try as I do feel a bit frustrated the actors and director weren't given individual mentions as they've done all of the hard work over the past couple of months bringing Chicken Shed to life. The description of the play is more of a synopsis however it's difficult to delve in too far without giving the plot away and the reviewer has two plays to get through; anyway, here it is...


Bristol Evening Post - Friday 15th July 2011
Double Bill is Great Value
The Kelvin Players: The Chicken Shed Reunited/TV Times

TWO for one offers are big in supermarkets – now they've come to the theatre.Bishopston am dram group the Kelvin Players are offering two plays for the price of one for recession-hit arts lover.

The show, which runs until tomorrow night, includes two one-act performances, TV Times and The Chicken Shed Reunited. Both offer humorous and witty scripts, but with an underlying melancholy.
Of the two, Chicken Shed is the better work, but both have something to offer.

TV Times, written by Chris Adams, focuses on one man's addiction to the gogglebox. Fred, played by Paul Dyson, and his wife Doris, played by Sue Stobbs, spend every night in front of the telly on their sofa. One evening they are visited by a cast of characters, the most entertaining of which is Steve Ellis' policeman. It's a shame he doesn't have a bigger part as he and news leader Mike Luckett are the most entertaining

Chicken Shed, written by Craig Malpass, looks at the effects of playground bullying. It tells the tale of three friends brought together by a bully, and who hide out in a shed to escape.

The same actors play the roles both as teenagers and then again as grown-ups some 20 years later.
TV Times' message is that you can waste your life watching television, so if you fancy a break from the tube these plays are worth a look.

7/10
SAM RKAINA