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David Hare's "Amy's View" Carnon Downs Drama Group

Fresh from their astonishing work out as the rude mechanicals in the Royal Shakespeare Company's countrywide production of  Midsummer Night's Dream - Carnon Downs Drama Group continue their tradition of tackling contemporary drama and imaginatively revive David Hare's play "Amy's View" written in the late 90s which follows the falling  fashions in, and relevance of the theatre (a subject that Hare's career at the NT staunched)  the rise of TV, from the late 1970s to the mid 90s.   A family thespian story  set in suburban Pangbourne follows  through the lives of Esme Allen ( characterfully played by Oriel Bennett) we discover as a traditional leading lady dismissive of her son-in-law Dominic Tyghe's (Dylan Frankland) populism as a TV personality and critic and where personal animosity to him  muddies her relationship with daughter Amy Thomas (Zoe Vale).   Traditional dismissive and  snobby attitude to money lead Esme to the trauma of the Lloyds syndicat