BLDS raise curtain on Drama Festival
The Society will be presenting Alan Ayckbourn’s classic Sixties comedy Relatively Speaking.
Relatively Speaking is one of Sir Alan Ayckbourn’s first, half-dozen plays out of 75 in total and it has a brilliantly constructed plot, which revolves around misunderstandings and disastrous, incorrect assumptions made between four people during the course of one, summer Sunday in 1960s Britain. Very much a Sixties play which contains a few, now-outmoded views of social mores, it’s nevertheless extremely funny and, simultaneously, a gentle satire on the British idiosyncrasy to avoid confrontation, at all costs, in new or unexpected social situations.
The company’s most recent trophies were won at the 2017 Ulster One-Act Finals, where it achieved both a Director’s Commendation and a Best Acting Award for An Englishman Abroad.