By Gillian
I was reading our local paper last night, and saw that there was a good review of a play at the Malvern Theatres. Tom Conti (of Shirley Valentine fame for those of us of a certain age) was starring in a comedy “Wife after Death” by Eric Chappell. I thought that we could do with a good laugh, but was worried that we would be too tired to enjoy an evening performance, as we both tend to flag in the evenings at the moment. However, we looked on-line and saw that there were some tickets still available for today’s matinee, so we spent this afternoon thoroughly enjoying ourselves at the theatre.
The play was very light, almost a farce in fact. It revolved around the funeral of a comedian, with his widow, his agent, the script-writer and their wives all mourning (or not) the loss of their friend, and perhaps more importantly the income stream he represented to them all. There was the obligatory revelation of a strange woman from his past with the light of blackmail in her eye, and some readily-anticipated accidents with the urn containing the comedian’s ashes. Written down in black-and-white it doesn’t sound particularly hilarious, but there were some laugh-out-loud one-liners, as well as some rather funny physical comedy (especially the look on the agent’s face when he got some of the ashes in his mouth after they were thrown over him).
It was well worth making the effort to go to, and it was really nice to have a “date” with Chris, even though the outing on top of the chemotherapy has left him exhausted, and he went to bed at 7:30 this evening to sleep off his busy week. He’s asked me to wake him up at 9pm so that he can take the rest of today’s pills before going back to bed.
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It was a lovely date, and a very good idea to have gone. We should do this sort of thing more often.