Di and Viv and Rose – Theatre by the Lake
I was transported back to the 1980s and student life in a northern town at Theatre by the Lake in Keswick through Amelia Bullmore’s play Di and Viv and Rose. A story of three girls who meet for the first time in their student halls of residence, this play captures their lives and friendship over the following three decades.
The minimal set brought back to life the decade of the gettoblaster, bright sportswear, and a time when students had grants and no free tuition.
The three very different characters - Di, a working-class, northern lesbian, Rose, a middle-class, innocent and yet promiscuous southerner, and the more mysterious Viv, a feminist whose wardrobe came from the 1940s, and who was determined to work her way to the top of academia.
This funny and moving play takes us...
