Big Life, REVIEW :: Drama

vauntingly Life, REVIEWThe play/ melodic is about a group of black people climax to England,from the Caribbean islands, in search for a better standard of livingand hopefully to get a good line of reasoning and classtle there. The play justexplains what the antithetical people have to put up, and how their liveshave become after coming to England. It shows how they resist women,how they fight off racism and of how they try to fulfil theirambitions in England. It is set back in the 1950s, where the countrywas very white- dominated, and English people were not accustomed tohaving people of other cultures around them.It is a very touching musical with that little bit of comedy, addedby Mrs Aphrodite, a member of the audience, talking of her ownexperiences in the 50s. Full of life and music, and very engagingSYNOPSIS The Big Life locomotes off with all the men, and Sybil comingto England. Sybil and Bernie, who are engaged, break up because Berniethinks that she was flirting with an other man. The men all togetherdecide to make a pact. This says that they will finish having thingslike cigarettes and alcohol sleep just 4 hours per night fast once aweek and no relationships with women, and make a 5 bet with admiralthat they will stick to what they say. The next scene is in the B&B,where Zulieka, Mary and Kathy are sitting and doing odd jobs, whenSybil enters. She tells them of how she broke up with Bernie, and thewomen all decide that they no longer want anything to do with men.Meanwhile, the men are on a tube looking for somewhere to stay, andsomeone mentions the B&B, but Bernie says hed rather sleep on thestreets. They decide in the end to go there and get rooms. The womencontinue to talk of how futile men are. Then in Piccadilly Circus,Admiral and Jacqueline the prostitute are sitting eating chips, whenLennie and Dennis enter, complaining they have still not found a joband how rude people are being to them. The reverend enters and startspreaching, and Admiral is insulted as he feels he is implying that heplays the devils music, so plays louder. The members of thecongregation start singing and Lennie and Dennis have an argument. Inthe B&B, Bernie enters in his new postmans uniform, and Sybil exits.Zulieka explains that the other man she was talking to was an uncle ofhers. Ferdy and Zulieka discuss his book and some memories.