Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean – Drama Studio, Sheffield
Sheffield University Theatre Company (SUTCo)’s exciting new season is in full swing, and taking to the stage this October is ‘Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean’ - a stage and screen classic from late writer Ed Graczyk and acclaimed director Robert Altman.
The play jumps between 1955 and 1975 in a small Texan town, and the SUTCo cast split the roles between actors across the 20 year gap. 1955’s Mona, played by Bethany Collins, captures really well the fanciful, naive dreamer-like qualities of youth which is fantastically subverted in 1975’s Mona, played by Lilia Harnett who presents an edgier, more unstable and neurotic maturing of such innocent delusion. Imogen Eyre’s Juanita is strong and a great anchor in this production, and Max Preston’s Stella and Tilly Har...