Over A Barrel

OVER A BARREL by Stephen Bill
Venue: Watford Palace 1990
Company: In association with The Turnstyle Group
Director: Michael Attenborough

Cast

Jill	Frances Barber
Ray	Kenneth Hadley
Duncan	Christopher Godwin
Venetia	Joolia Cappleman
Jason	William Oxborrow
Ian	David Threlfall
Gordon	Niall Buggy

Review : The Stage

The Bartletts are a really awful family. A more unsympathetic bunch you would not find outside Abigail's Party however the publicity notes describe them as normal next-door types. As views like this are subjective perhaps you should go along and see for yourself. TheBartlett family are the base for Stephen Bill's play Over A Barrel....Pivotal to the action is the bullet-headed Ian ....the precocious Jill, not averse to a romantic fling with Gordon, .and who can blame the two of them with so much ugliness in the world? Brother Duncan and his most improbable spouse Venetia snarl and rage at the unwilling Ian, who finally snaps under the strain and decides to chuck in the family business. No support either from the wretched Jason, the son who chooses to spend most of his time in bed. Passing through, so to speak, is Ray, a local builder come to plug a leak.