The coffin is in place, we've been handed the order of service, and the minister was on hand to welcome us in. It's the funeral of Sandy Munro and it falls to said minister, who also happens to be Sandy's big brother Andy, to deliver the eulogy. He paints a warts and all portrait of the deceased, who he frequently had to help out, to his own cost. It's very funny throughout, and Benny Young brings a hint of Rikki Fulton's wonderful I M Jolly to the role.
Proceedings are disrupted by the loud entrance of Anne, Sandy's embittered ex-wife, who corrects some of Andy's more fanciful notions about his brother and adds more fuel to the fire of haplessness that was Sandy's life. So far, so funny, and there are comic songs for the audience to join in with. This ephemeral piece is given some substance by a surprise twist tells us more about all three of them than the two speakers had felt prepared to give away, and serves as a reminder that we tell the stories of our lives in the ways that serve us best, and our truth is not the same as the other persons.
Perhaps not the best of this season PP&P offerings, but always enjoyable well worth the time.
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