DUCKING OUT by Mike Stott
Adapted from a play by Eduardo De Filippo
Venue: Greenwich 1982
Directed by Mike Ockrent

Cast
Warren Mitchell
Leslie Sands
Gillian Barge
Diane Bull
Kevin Lloyd
Philip McGough
Chas Beyer
Kevin Kennedy
Alan Devlin
Renu Setna
Doreen Keogh

Review
Sunday Times: James Fenton

At Greenwich, Mike Stott has adapted a play by Eduardo de Filippo to produce Ducking Out, a comedy about a Catholic family in Lancashire. The Father (Warren Mitchell) prides himself on his ability to build Christmas cribs - an ability which nobody else appreciates. The family assembled around this figure includes an upwardly mobile daughter (Diane Bull) unhappily married to a retail butcher (Philip McGough). There is also a delinquent son (Kevin Kennedy) and a long-suffering wife (Gillian Barge). The difficulty of transferring plays of this kind from one highly specific local setting (Naples) to another is extreme. Where the play didn't quite make sense, I found myself mentally translating it back to its old setting - a bad sign. Mike Ockrent directed the piece. Poppy Mitchell designed it.