"Both guests on stage and in the Palace auditorium feel warmly welcomed by Roger Bingham's Yorkshire Dales Innkeeper, Sam. Making himself comfortable, puffing a pipe, at the end of play he exudes the air and message that this is a period piece. Like us, he has witnessed a whimsical idea and life moves on without any lasting thoughts or effects." "Roger Bingham's Sam, contentment personified, gives a fine portrait of a man for whom repeated existence would be a joy - as his golden memory of a wedding-day with cricket beautifully shows." "The simple folk who run the place, played with nicely observed, subtly comic performances from Roger Bingham as the bluff, good-natured Sam and Candida Gubbins as his daughter Sally." |
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