‘The Southbury Child’ by Stephen Beresford
13 July 2022
Last Thursday we were back at the Bridge Theatre in London to see ‘The Southbury Child’ - a new play by Stephen Beresford, directed by Nicholas Hytner. Alex Jennings plays a Church of England vicar who provokes hostility in his rural Devon parish by not allowing a young mother to decorate the church with Disney balloons for her child’s funeral. The drama takes place around the kitchen table of the vicarage as various local residents plead with the vicar to relax his principled stand in sympathy with the emotional devastation of the family dealing with the loss of a child. Stephen Beresford’s script finds gentle humour within a tragic situation and has the feel of an Alan Bennett play. ‘The Southbury Child’ is entertaining and thought provoking, with an impressive cast including Phoebe Nicholls as the vicar’s wife.
posted by Robin Simpson @ 7:57 pm
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