Honour, Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne (From Bournemouth Echo)

Honour, Tivoli Theatre, Wimborne

10:39am Sunday 25th July 2010 in

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DIRECTOR Pete Talman’s production of Honour pulls its audience in a fluorescent-lit dive down the back stairs of life, garishly revealing the weaknesses that make us dirty, loving and oh so human.

Jan Wyld gives a strong performance as Honor, the complex housewife struggling to determine her boundaries of loving self, lifestyle and husband, and is offset by an assured performance by John Billington as George, the intellectual coming to terms with his own mortality and the tedious burden of knowledge synomous, for some, with long term domesticated love.

But it is the talented Kate Billington who shines through in this production as Sophie, the 24 year old daughter of Honor and George. Her passionately confused angst and troubled self doubt comes across beautifully in her monologue and her stroppy black and white interpretation of her parent’s actions is both truthful and poignant. Emily MacGregor completed the cast as the ruthless and ambitious executive, Claudia. A considerable number of scene changes proved a little distracting in the midst of the heated exchanges that comprise this drama, but the sets were simple and effective once set and the sound and lighting were well timed.

Anyone with a passion for the wider complexities of the human condition and the ways in which we love would have very much enjoyed this show.