Straight and Narrow

A sharply observed comedy of family life, "A domestic comedy fleshed out with such skill that you laugh until it hurts and when it does, you find the hurt is real....[Jimmie Chinn's] territory lies somewhere between the Alans Bennett and Ayckbourn." (original review).

A West End hit for Nicholas Lyndhurst and Carmel McSharry, this modem comedy is a well observed look at family life. Mother Vera's interference in her children's concerns extends far into their adult lives, but there's something she doesn't know her favourite little boy lives with another man!

case any the course of true lover never run smoothly, but what they never tell you is that sometimes even the concrete sections of the M42 are smoother. Bob and his mother never quite see eye-to-eye concerning his love life. Jeff, however, seems to have more than his fair share, and poor old Nona has lost her man to the competition. Jimmie Chinn's comic genius lifts the dark January mists to reveal a household in turmoil.

All the facets of family life portrayed here,the tears and the laughter brought to life in this portrayal of a slightly unusual family group. They say, and it is the same "they" as before, that what really solves things is to have a break and get away from it all. But if you go away you must also come back, and of their income lies the problem. Laugh by all means, that you may be moved as well.