Look Back in Pleasure to This Fifties Comic Period Piece ; First Night: Epitaph for George Dillon, Comedy Theatre

Evening Standard - London › September 28, 2005

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MASOCHISTS like me, who love being plunged into suburban family life of the Fifties, when prissiness was all the rage and sex, drugs and rock'n'roll were out of bounds, should have real fun with Epitaph For George Dillon.

The wicked pleasures of snobbery are invited by the sight and sound of suburbanites basking in smugness and hideous hats, with lurid furnishings and sweet Muzak on the radiogram. Even Francesca Annis's Ruth, the bright, Communist member of the family who went to university, achieves a memorable dowdiness before blossoming into lipstick after winning a kiss from Dillon, a man young enough to be her son.

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Look Back in Pleasure to This Fifties Comic Period Piece ; First Night: Epitaph for George Dillon, Comedy Theatre

John Gunter's awesome stage set is a little monument to bad taste. How comic the patter of people speaking what sounds like Fifties so...

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