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A Day In the Death Of Joe Egg

Description: This comedy follows a young couple's struggle to deal with marriage, career and family. As they try to make light of ... more

A Day In the Death Of Joe Egg ... their situation, Bri and Shelia resort to humour and fantasy as a way to get through each day.
Comedy Theatre, Panton Street, London SW1.

Newest Review: ... to about Joe, lead to desperation and the desp erate acts that go with it. A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is by turns hilariously funny and heart-wrenchingly sad. My companion and I laughed an awful lot but we both needed to wipe away a tear or two. The first act, the telling of the story of how Joe came to be as ... more

... she is, is the strongest - through both Bri's (played by Eddie Izzard) bitter jokes, his hamming and clowning, and Sheila's (played by Victoria Hamilton) shining-eyed, emotionally-open recounting of the catalogue of errors and misfortune that led...more

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A Day In the Death Of Joe Egg: "Our Priorities Is Our Faith" (1382 words)
by - written on 06/01/02 (Very useful, 835 readings)
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Bri is tired of teaching. He's tired of the endless detentions, the naughtiness, the children who don't want to learn, and he amuses himself by sending up his situation. He creates enjoyment from detention time by hamming it up; making hands go on heads, inflicting one minute silences on his hapless pupils, and when he's bored of that he leaves the room "for a moment" but never returns, leaving his class wondering what on earth's going on. Bri is tired of everything. At home, waits his wife, Sheila, with his daughter, Joe, but going home for him is not respite. Joe is severely disabled, she cannot fend for herself, she can't communicate ... Read the complete review