Amy's View...

I went to see the last night of Amy's View by David Hare with the Missus at the weekend.

It was a bit of an odd beast for Hare as it was a four-act play about the relationship between a mother and her daughter set over three decades rather than his larger-canvas political dramas such as The Permanent Way about the privatisation of the railways or The Absence Of War about the demise of the Labour Party.

Felicity Kendal of The Good Life fame was the ageing actress mother Esme who dominated proceedings and Jenna Russell was her at-odds daughter Amy. It was at times touching and funny but it didn't really light my fire in the way a Steven Poliakoff play that uses similar time jumps as a technique to move the drama forward does.

But it was OK. The writing was clear and intelligent, Peter Hall's direction was clear and Kendal was fine. The rest of the cast weren't fantastic, though.