Juicelog Thurs 140208: Celebrating our first February amative day, I packed my passport and Nottingham guide book and took a trip to the midlands this afternoon. Following an early dinner at French Living, we went to the Theatre Royal to verify the elasticity of my skin (I got ID checked when ordering two gin and tonics) and to see Hobson’s Choice.
Hobson’s Choice is a play that looks at the clash between an authoritarian widower, Hobson (a respectable boot maker) and his three daughters. Set in a boot makers premises in Lancashire, the girls are eager to get married and leave the family home and father’s boot making business. Acerbic Maggie Hobson (the eldest of the three daughters) hatches a cunning plan to rid herself (and her two youngest sisters) of her father’s patriarchal hold.
John Savident (who plays Fred Elliot in Coronation Street) gives a dazzling performance as the hapless and penny pinching Hobson. With his large figure, his facial expressions and rubbery face is absolutely suited to this role. The incompetence of the men provide a lot of humourous moments, which is well executed with brilliant comically timing.
What is suppose to be a comedy about the class structure and one man's struggle to reconcile himself with this new status as the women become empowered, this production doesn't really add anything new to the discussion about class and the second half was a bit too long.
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