Travels With My Aunt

Hum Drum

The Spring, Havant

Four middle-aged men, the epitome of boring, re-live the travels of dull, retired bank manager Henry Pulling (Peter Colley, Ben Counter, John Moore, Mike Palmer) and his 75 year-old aunt Augusta (Jeanette Broad), an irrepressible and formidable woman, with a voracious sexual appetite and a disregard for convention, played with aplomb by Broad.

This all-male team is led by Colley, who takes the lion's share of the dialogue. Palmer has fun playing a series of simpering teenagers and women and John plays an Irish wolfhound with gusto and gives life to the numerous props, with great comedy effect.

The show requires a great deal of thought, in order to convey travel through time and place. Even more complex is how to have four individuals, melded into one person, sharing dialogue and expression. Careful placing and seamless flow made this theatre something very special and this must be, in part, credited to the visionary director (Caz Gilmore) but also to the skill of the four Henrys and their Aunt's ability to interact with them as a whole.

Rebecca Case