Why stage star David is enjoying life on the road
Mar 8 2010 by Barbara Hodgson, The Journal
POPULAR actor David Troughton is back in the region this week, playing opposite Alison Steadman in Alan Bennet’s Enjoy at the Theatre Royal.
They are Wilf and Connie, an elderly couple waiting to be rehoused while their Leeds council estate is demolished.
“Wilfred, who’s been damaged in a hit and run accident, is a bit bitter and just sits there. His wife is on the verge of Alzheimer’s,” says David, a regular in Newcastle with the RSC.
“So it sounds a bit depressing but it’s not because Alan Bennett can make you laugh at some awful things.
“In this play he’ll take you along one road and you think, this is great; and then suddenly it’s, oh dear! He’s great at that. He can make you laugh and cry at the same time.”
Enjoy was actually written as long ago as 1980, but then not revived until 18 months ago with a short tour and then a run in the West End.
Now deemed worthy of bigger theatres, it’s back on the road again. David is talking to me from Plymouth a few hours before he’s due on stage.
When he read Enjoy, he says, he thought he was reading a new play.
