By Eve Ward
Last week on the 27th of February, I went to see the production of ‘Sister Act’ performed in the New Victoria Theatre in Woking. As you know, Sister Act is the performance that the school is currently working on, so for me, it was interesting to discover what was similar and what was different about this performance, and the performance that we are currently working on.
For those of you who are not involved in the school production, and are therefore not familiar with the storyline of the play Sister Act, here is a brief summary. It follows the life of the protagonist, Deloris, who is an amazing singer, singing on the weekends at bars and clubs. Her partner is the evil Curtis Jackson, who she soon sees killing an innocent man. She then gets in touch with the police department, of which the head cop is Eddie Souther, her high school admirer. To protect her, he comes up with the plan to hide her somewhere he thinks Curtis Jackson will never look – a convent. The play humorously explores new relationships that Deloris unexpectedly develops with the nuns, making it even better with the catchy songs and hilarious dancing.
In this particular version of the play, my favourite characters were Eddie and Mother Superior. Eddie was played by Clive Rowe, and I think that he was an absolute joy to watch with his incredible comedic timing and his warm vocals which really shone in the song ‘I could be that Guy.’ Lesley Joseph is outstanding as Mother Superior with exceptional comic timing and staging her songs with charisma and a slight feeling touch of hilarity.
If this article was interesting to you and you would like to find out more about the play, I would highly recommend going to see it, especially if you are, like me, in the school production itself. This adaptation of the play has a wonderfully talented cast, and for me, there wasn’t one bad word to say about this performance.