MEMORIES will be coming alive when star of stage and screen Ursula Mohan drops in at Feckenham Village Hall this Saturday, March 12 – and little wonder as few actors can have had such a varied career as Ursula’s.
It’s not a name that’s instantly recognisable but almost everyone will have seen her work.
From the small screen in the 70s when she played the saucy clippie flirting with Reg Varney in ‘On The Buses’ to the present when she appears as the confused Mrs Robinson in BBC’s ‘Doctors’.
Star of stage and screen Ursula Mohan. On the big screen she’s appeared in films like ‘The Bank Job’ and ‘Small World’, while on stage she was the first woman to play King Lear.
Now she’s coming to Feckenham in a show that’s earned her widespread plaudits from press and public alike.
She’s starring in ‘Florence ‘Flo’ Smith – Now and Then’ a show created from transcripts of tape recordings taken in writer Christopher Saul’s grandmother’s North London home in the spring of 1969.
In them she recounts her life and all the tales and memories she’d collected along the way.
The dramatised recollections are retold in Flo’s kitchen with Flo being brought vividly to life by Ursula.
The show was first performed at Stratford’s Bear Pit Theatre in 2018 and has been touring ever since with frequent sell outs and return runs.
It’s a funny, engaging and moving evening that may even put our present troubles in perspective.
‘Florence ‘Flo Smith’ has been brought to Redditch’s rural outpost by Live and Local – the county’s performing arts scheme – bringing Live Arts to the doorstep and this performance is sponsored by Arts Council England, Worcestershire County Council and Redditch Borough Council.
It’s on this Saturday, March 12 at 7.30pm. Doors open at 7pm and there’s a licensed bar too.
Tickets are £12 on sale at the Village Shop and The Rose & Crown in Feckenham or book online at www.feckhall.org or by phone on 0333 666 3366.
