All Audience Reviews of The Hills Of California

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Freddie S

A play about the weight of consequences, an emotional whirlwind, ultimately picking apart the idea of family duty. Thoroughly enjoyable with some really funny moments as well as tearjerkers. Not to be missed.Read more →

Xuan Qin

The beginning is a bit hard to understand. But when comes back to the old days. It was interesting! Good play that shows relation between sisters and mother.Read more →

Booked via Stagedoor

Andrea Ma

A family drama narrated through memories and music, as four sisters gather with their married families at their mother’s deathbed. Rob Howell’s splendid sets switch between the public parlour of the guesthouse for the 1970s action and the kitchen for the 1940s flashbacks.Read more →

Mikki Burrell

Outstanding writing and performance. A poignant and thought provoking play.Read more →

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Mark Winn

Brilliantly funny. Yet chilling at times A must seeRead more →

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Bilkisu Zhang

Textbook drama, bold, precise, well-thought-through, directed and acted with wonderful skills. A play in a very specific time and location setting but dealing with so many universal problems at the same time. Heartbreaking and breathtaking.Read more →

Kevin Lloyd

Fabulously performed family drama, somewhat reminiscent of Tennessee Williams, about dreams, grief, abuse, the lies we tell ourselves and the ties that bind. The idiomatic dialogue trips along and clever staging swings literally between past and present providing the context both for hopes for something better and the realities of life. The Hills - the distant land over the sea - are totemic: an aspiration, an illusion, a refuge, perhaps something of a prison just as much as a run down boarding house in Blackpool.Read more →

Olivier Grau

Really good play, first half a little slow, picked up nicely in the second halfRead more →

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David Roy

Set in a Blackpool downmarket B & B, this deeply personal family saga play is set in the 50’s and the 70’s. It involves mainly the dying mother, the daughters and occasional men who are mainly cyphers or predators. The play will seem over long to many although it is difficult to identify what could be significantly trimmed, but apart from the drama of the big deathbed family row there is little intensity, and it burbles along to a fairly satisfying but not terribly moving conclusion. All the roles are very well taken and the young daughters are a delight. I enjoyed it but did not love it.Read more →

Edward Daffarn

Enjoyed but not blown awayRead more →

enrico vlaic

The Webb sisters reunite in the family owned guesthouse in Blackpool in 1976 as their mother is dying. Flashbacks to the 50s explore the identities of the women. The first 2 acts revolve around the absence of Joan, one of the sisters, who moved to California and never came back. The relationship between the sisters is consumed by secrets and feelings they always kept to themselves regarding Joan's departure. If the play ended here I would have given it 5 stars. The 3rd act changes all. With the arrival of Joan we discover what really happened and who she really is. Great acting, not so great script.Read more →

Stella Pullar-Strecker

Very witty and stylish family drama. Enjoyed the first half more than the second which dragged on a bit.Read more →

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