“Feisty,
funny and frank…"
Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
For our second show of
the year, we are delighted to welcome FLO SMITH - NOW AND THEN on
Saturday 18th May at 8pm.
It's 1969 and a woman
looks back on her life lived in London, from the Boer War to the Summer of
Love... Flo Smith, daughter, sister, wife, mother, widow and grandmother
recalls with horror, humour, tears and joy those turbulent times at home, and
in the world beyond her front door.
Written by actor Christopher Saul, the play is based on recordings he made as a young drama
student of his own grandmother, Florence Smith. Her loveable and forthright
character is brought brilliantly to life by Ursula Mohan, whose many credits include
playing a female King Lear (at the Tristan Bates Theatre in 2016) and Joyce the
cockney clippie, in many episodes of On the Buses (in the late 60s and
early 70s).
★★★★ A working class London girl who
has endured poverty, injustice, a troubled upbringing, love and loss, her
reminisces intermingle with world events... it is this intimate biographical
detail framed against the background politics that give her gossipy ramblings a
historical importance and unique insightfulness." Gill
Sutherland, Stratford Herald
The bar will open at 7pm and the performance will start at 8pm.
Members €15 Non-Members €20
NB: your reservation will only be confirmed on receipt of your
cheque
Ruth Etridge FET Secretary
