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Christmas at the Chalet (2023 Lifetime Movie)

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Christmas at the Chalet (2023 Hallmark) 📺.  Stream/Watch the Movie (Ad): Watch or Stream via Hallmark Movies Now Cast: Teri Hatcher, William deVry, Director: Lucie Guest Writer: Julia Cranney ➡️    Check out our Youtube Channel: Lifetime Uncorked: Lifetime Movie Reviews 🎧   Listen to the Lifetime Uncorked Podcast: Listen Now 🍷  Support the show with a $5 tip:…

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MOMENTS/EMPTY BEDS by Julia Cranney The Hope Theatre, N1, 30 January to 17 February 2018 ‘funny, moving exploration of the way that the people who love each other most can drive each other up the wall’ ★★★ Writer-actor-producer Julia Cranney brings a double bill of plays to the Hope this month for a slow-burning evening with a finish worth waiting for. The two plays differ significantly in tempo and tone and it’s hard to see why they belong on the same bill, other than that each, at about an hour, is too short to stand alone. ‘Empty Beds’, coming after the interval, is the one worth waiting for. It’s a simple set-up – three sisters in a train carriage on a journey to see their sick brother in hospital. But right from the start of their already-delayed journey, it’s a brilliant, funny, moving exploration of the way that the people who love each other most can drive each other up the wall. At a time when new theatre seems almost painfully to try to break boundaries, there’s something marvellous about watching a play so traditionally constructed. A single set, three people, and real-time action as their further delayed train ticks down the clock that means visiting time will be past by the time they get there. And without any trickery or avant garde staging or pyrotechnics, there’s real emotion as the three sisters spar and make up, with allegiances shifting and re-shifting as they run the gamut of love, hate, jealousy, pride in each other and more. Cranney herself is the oldest, hard-bitten sister, resenting Emily (Carys Wright) who has moved away to be a student in London leaving her and youngest sister Jo (Debbie Brennan) to cope with their mentally ill brother, now cared for miles away in a remote hospital. Brennan, in particular, switches superbly from joy to pain to guilt to remorse as the barbs fly. It’s funny, emotional and utterly real. It’s earlier pair, ‘Moments’, is as vague as its title. Cranney, again, is Ava, a lonely young woman in London, who strikes up a relationship with an older man, Daniel (Simon Mattacks) in a series of vignettes of limited conviction or reality. The acting’s fine, but the piece drags a slender premise over far too long a time, and its staging – much too wide a space for the audience to feel much connection between the two of them – doesn’t do much to help. Fortunately, Empty Beds is worth the wait and worth at least four stars by itself. MOMENTS/EMPTY BEDS by Julia Cranney Directed by Kate Treadwell Presented by Pennyworth Productions The Hope Theatre, 207 Upper Street, Islington, N1 1RL 30 January to 17 February 2018 Box Office: 0333 666 3366 or www.thehopetheatre.com Reviewer David Weir’s plays include: Lions of England (Powys Theatre, Newtown, 2018), Confessional (Oran Mor, Glasgow, 2017), Better Together (Brockley Jack, London, 2016), No Occasion To (Hayman’s Theatre, Perth, Australia, 2015), Music from a Distant Shore (Apollo Theatre, Newport, Isle of Wight, 2014), Bitter Looks (Brockley Jack, 2012) and Murdering the Truth (Greenwich Theatre, London, 2009). He has twice been long-listed for the Bruntwood prize, and is a winner of the Constance Cox Award, the Joy Goun Award, the Write Now Festival prize, and a Kenneth Branagh Award for new writing.

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Part of this year’s Camden Fringe and written by and starring Julia Cranney; Moments is a witty, one-act play which explores loneliness in a big City (London).

Twenty-six-year-old Ava (Julia Cranney) has recently moved from the North of England to London where she works in a Call Centre. Daniel (Simon Mattacks) is 52 and works a security guard who has recently separated from his wife. It is during their daily bus commute to their various workplaces that they first meet. Following several brief conversations the longest of which is after Ava drops her shopping bag and Daniel comes to her aid; are this unlikely couple about to become friends?

A lot of the play’s storytelling is done by a very basic style of narration. This narrative could easily become repetitive and boring. However due to the clever way the actors play out the narration by using some well timed expressive looks/mime this does not happen, although it does help to show how lonely Ava and Daniel’s lives were becoming.

Julia Cranney’s script is sparky and, at times, humorous allowing both actors to demonstrate excellent comic timing.

Julia Cranney manages to convey Ava’s weariness of life in London after a few months extremely well. Managing to show her proud streak as well as her more humorous side (her “bigging” up her life in phone calls home to her parents are particularly well done).

Simon Mattacks is good as the slightly more open, chatty, yet somehow just as vulnerable, Daniel. The pair have good chemistry as the two characters share a few awkward conversations (one of which is a rather surreal conversation about eggs). Eventually, they have a proper conversation at an unlikely meeting place. This meeting between the two includes a great twist which manages to turn their situation bittersweet.

Richard Speirs direction is well paced and like the narration helps give believability to both the couple’s loneliness and unlikely friendship.

Moments is an enjoyable thought-provoking play with a lovely final scene which should ensure you leave the theatre with a smile on your face!

Review by Karen Pond

Daniel and Ava have nothing in common. He’s 56, she’s 25. He’s a talker, she’s a listener. But after a series of chance (and awkward) encounters, it’s starting to look like they’re becoming… friends?

From award-winning writer Julia Cranney, Moments is a delicate, funny and moving exploration of modern loneliness and friendship in a big city.

Starring Simon Mattacks (RSC, Orange Tree Theatre, Arts Theatre West End) and Julia Cranney (Arcola, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse).

Cast and Creatives Julia Cranney – Writer and Ava Simon Mattacks – Daniel Richard Speir – Director Gennie Allcott Producer Carys Wright – Design Anna Clock – Sound and Music

Hen and Chickens, 109 St Pauls Road, Highbury Corner, N1 2NA 21st – 22nd August (6pm) and 26th – 27th August (3pm) Running time: 60 minutes

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Christmas at the Chalet (2023 Lifetime Movie)

Christmas at the Chalet (2023 Hallmark) 📺.  Stream/Watch the Movie (Ad): Watch or Stream via Hallmark Movies Now Cast: Teri Hatcher, William deVry, Director: Lucie Guest Writer: Julia Cranney ➡️    Check out our Youtube Channel: Lifetime Uncorked: Lifetime Movie Reviews 🎧   Listen to the Lifetime Uncorked Podcast: Listen Now 🍷  Support the show with a $5 tip:…