| Under Joan Mallet's thorough direction ("That's fine everyone
- now we'll do it again"), "Happiest Days" is emerging
as a wonderful evening's entertainment, full of marvelous characters
that will spell nostalgia to some, and be just one long hoot for others;
Nick Moss, for instance, the nice young master, drooling over the
charming Miss Harper (Toni Quirke), John Mallett recoiling from the
advances of the dreadful Miss Cossage, Brian Quirke as the slow-wittet
caretaker, fed up with the lot of them, and the delightful Simon Valentine,
who plays Hopecroft, a young man addicted to messing up girl's bicylce
tool-boxes with treacle.... ... Comedies are not the easiest to put accross, and there are few things more painful than watching a funny show that doesn't quite make it. This one, I assure you, is an absolute riot. Extremely funny and very well acted. |
