When It Happens to You 2024
Opened: July 31, 2024Closing: August 31, 2024
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Park Theatre
Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, London N4 3JP, United Kingdom London
‘This was the 3am phone call no mother wants to receive’
One shattered promise.
A high stakes thriller.
From New York Times best-selling author Tawni O’Dell comes the powerful true story of a mother desperately trying to hold her family together after a devastating event changes the course of their lives.
Amanda Abbington (Sherlock, Mr Selfridge) will lead an ensemble cast in this electric piece of new writing that mines the depths of human courage and the resolve to survive following a shattering incident. Directed by Park Theatre’s Artistic Director Jez Bond, this pacy theatrical page-turner propels the audience into the heart of an unmissable drama fuelled by tears, laughter, hope and love.
Tawni O’Dell is a bestselling author on both sides of the Atlantic with titles such as Back Roads, Coal Run and Sister Mine. Her work has been translated into fifteen languages and has been published in over forty countries.
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When It Happens to You, Park Theatre review: Amanda Abbington cries real tears
5 / 10
Despite the import of the events recounted, Jez Bond’s underwhelming production makes it hard to care overmuch about the characters, as Esme drinks too much to mask her pain and slowly spirals out of control, while Tara herself makes some perplexingly rash decisions. On a bare set backed by a half-hearted tracing of the iconic New York skyline, Esme withdraws ever further into herself, with Day hunched and slouching as a pitiful concave shape of a person.
When It Happens To You – Park Theatre | Review
9 / 10
The play is superbly structured so that, at times, it is surprisingly upbeat and often very amusing, especially when she, as Tara in the play, is trying to complete a health questionnaire and comes to a full stop at Question 10 which asks her about how much alcohol she consumes. After much internal debate, she comes to the conclusion that we all come to when filling in similar forms! This lightening of the atmosphere means that the moments of agony and despair are all the more poignant, yet in the end, in spite of a denouement that no one expects, leave us feeling as positive as possible about life. This is a terrific play in every respect – and it is given a terrific production by all concerned.
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Review Roundup: WHEN IT HAPPENS TO YOU At Park Theatre
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 7, 2024
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 7, 2024
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