I’m in Mark’s having a coffee.
Just enough time for a sausage ciabatta and a blog before I meet the others.
Standing At The Sky Edge is a lovely Sheffield own musical. cleverly staged and impeccably acted it explores three generations in the history of one of the Hyde Park Flats In Sheffield. A listed building built in the 1950s as a “streets in the sky” panacea to slum clearance .
And so we meet 1960s young couple Harry & Rose . She a loyal housewife , he an idealist foreman in the steel industry, they move and laugh and love in their flat in the sky alongside an 1980s Liberian immigrant family and 2017 Poppy a unhappy lesbian from London in search of a new life in the recently upgraded and trendy housing complex. The three stories unwind on stage together and it takes some very clever choreography to keep the action going and storylines precise and clear but Richard Hawley and Chris Ode for the most part carry the whole thing off admirably .
Of course the in jokes were lapped up by the packed Sheffield audience
A character brings a bottle of Henderson’s relish as a housewarming gift, the spicy contents loved by the Liberian family who think all English food is not seasoned enough whilst another character slags off Leeds to cheers from the audience, all jokes being lost if the production shifts to London.
I did enjoy it, and was incredibly moved at some of the visuals and memories it evoked. The story of regeneration, hope and positivism balancing the real backstories of urban decay , poverty and misguided local government decisions .
The ensemble cast were wonderful
They even managed to bring in the prop of the I love You Sky Bridge which didn’t leave a dry eye in the house when it appeared
from Going Gently https://ift.tt/TYZyqaG
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