The Way Old Friends Do
$39.36
- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
23 February 2023
Summary
In 1988, two Birmingham school friends tentatively come out to one another: Edward as gay; Peter, even more daringly, as an ABBA fan.
Nearly thirty years later, they meet again – and take a chance by forming the world’s first ABBA tribute band in drag. It’s a riot of platform boots and dodgy beards, ‘Waterloos’ and ‘Chiquititas’, and they couldn’t escape if they wanted to. But can Edward and Peter’s friendship survive the tribulations of a life on the road?
Ian Hallard’s T…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781839041198 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1839041196 |
| Author: | Ian Hallard |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 23 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 139g |
| Dimensions: | 9mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | NHB Modern Plays |
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Critics Review
‘Camp, funny and jolly good fun’
* Sunday Times *‘A super-trouper of a show that reminds us all of the part music can play in our lives and our friendships… Hallard’s script is keen-edged and perceptive, rapidly creating characters and imbuing them with life views that make the audience both laugh and feel a tinge of sadness’
* WhatsOnStage *‘Hilariously funny… a positive joy to watch from start to finish… bang on the Money, Money, Money’
* Reviews Hub *‘Side-splittingly funny… the easy comedy of the first act gives way to a dramatic series of genuinely surprising twists in the second ahead of a touchingly sentimental conclusion… a genuine love letter to ABBA with plenty for the die-hard enthusiasts to enjoy, but when all is said and done it is ultimately a story about enduring friendship’
* Broadway World *‘A gorgeously realised super trouper of a play that’s well worth taking a chance on’
* West End Best Friend *‘A fun, frothy comedy with heart-stopping moments… incorrigibly entertaining… [Hallard is] a comic writer who brings big dollops of warmth to his work, and abounding joyfulness too. A must-see for Abba fans; fun and laughs for the rest of us’
* Guardian *‘Hilarious… you don’t have to be an ABBA aficionado to enjoy it’
* British Theatre Guide *‘Wonderfully funny’
* LondonTheatre1 *‘A sweet, juicy, peach of a show that is physically impossible not to savour… a veritable goldmine of deliciously funny one-liners. But it also a touching, tender, and brilliantly executed meditation on the nature of enduring friendship, and of the challenges involved in coming out late in life… this show really is an awful lot of fun’
* Reviews Hub *‘Full of heart, and enough witty one-liners to lift the spirits, whether or not you’re an ABBA fan’
* The Stage *‘Extremely endearing… a refreshing twist on the conventional rom-com… Hallard’s real-life love of ABBA shines through in his script’
* Time Out *‘Abbasolutely a delight! Warm but a bit rude, affirmative but absurd, with sudden big laughs and many, many treasurable lines’
* TheatreCat *Ian Hallard
Ian Hallard is an actor and writer. His plays include: The Way Old Friends Do (Birmingham Rep & tour, 2023); and Adventurous (Jermyn Street Theatre online, 2021).
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