CAMP production ‘When we are married’ – WMN review
"The classic J B Priestley comedy will complete a successful autumn run with performances at the very eastern and western ends of Cornwall this week.
Smug in their successful lives, the men bluster over port and cigars while their wives perch on the sofa like three contented hens, at ease with life and their elevated status. Nothing could possibly alter their blissful situation. Or could it?Right from the word go the characters are quickly defined, a sign of a great cast well into their stride, and Chloe Carrubba starts the comic ball rolling with a sparkling performance as the maid Ruby, bemused by the chaos that ensues when the local organist, played by Barnaby Lanyon-Jones, in fine languid form, reveals that the marital bliss enjoyed by the three couples may be a sham as the vicar who married them wasn't licensed to do so.Staged by Menheniot-based Camp Theatre, When We Are Married takes place in a neat, Edwardian parlour where three couples are celebrating their joint twenty fifth wedding anniversaries: all married on the same day, in the same chapel, by the same vicar.The scene is set then for a tale of twists and turns, moral indignation and plenty of cutting jibes all aimed at Priestley's favourite target, the conceited middle classes."