Under The Blue Sky

Duke of York’s Theatre
Monday 4th August 2008 - 7.45pm

What’s it about?
Under The Blue Sky is David Eldridge’s exploration of the private lives of teachers, away from the classroom, where their lives revolve around conflicts of lust and love. The play is written as three stories, subtly related to each other.

What’s Good?
The cast, including Catherine Tate, Francesca Annis and Chris O’Dowd exert themselves to the best of their abilities and, in the most part, are able to hold the attention of the audience during their half hour acts.

What’s Bad?
Essentially the first two stories begin to repeat themselves after the first ten minutes of the act. Once this starts to happen, no matter what appears in the script to act as a “twist” to the plot, the whole performance begins to get a bit dull, and needlessly so really as before the stories become repetitive they’re actually quite interesting.

Overall
Catherine Tate recently made headlines stating that she felt the theatre was too expensive, I do agree with this opinion, however, the most annoying aspect Under The Blue Sky is that if the tickets were sold at half the price, the show would still not be anywhere near worth the admission fee.