It Could Be Any One Of Us

Alan Ayckbourn is one of Britain’s accomplished comedy playwrights and this script is full of surprises: he has even written three alternate endings as to “who done it”!

Ballina’s production is a lot of fun with a cast of five dysfunctional, eccentric family members and one sane outsider. As with most plays, the plot takes a little time to inform the audience as to who is who.

The cast is: Carl Moore as Mortimer, the over inflated under achiever musician; Julieanne Basham as Jocelyn, his failed writer sister; Peter Harding as Brinton, his simple-minded painting brother; Hillary Goodsell as Amy, his food obsessed niece; Mick Webb as Norris, Jocelyn’s live-in partner and want-to-be Private Detective and the sane outsider Wendy, a former piano student of Mortimer’s to whom (he informs the family) will inherit the house and all his other possessions on his demise: and as such she is the victim in the many attempts to prevent her from claiming the prize.

At the performance I saw, the pace was a little slow but should tighten up as the show progresses.

Roger McKenzie