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| Cast | |
| David | Tony Donnelly |
| Sarah | Wendy Jones |
| Valerie | Pam Sage |
| Stuart | Ian Saxton |
| Crew | |
| Stage Manager | Jean Sharp |
| Assistant Stage Managers | Janet Burns, Bernard Tilley, Allison Henderson |
| Set Design | Alex Clifton |
| Set Construction & Painting | Alex Clifton, Mark McLeod, Roy Carroll, Paul Lay |
| Costumes | Freda Philips |
| Lighting | Tim Hewitt |
| Sound | Phil Swallow |
Review
A verbose farce with few laughs
With a few notable successes from the pens of Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall to whet my appetite, including their famous Billy Liar, I expected a great deal more than I received from the revival of Say Who You Are at the Edward Alderton Theatre.
Tony Donnelly plays a husband with a teenage mistress, a fact which understandably annoys his wife, played by Wendy Jones. The wife decides to enjoy a little perverse pleasure by allowing her friend (Pam Sage) occasionally to use the nuptial bed for a liaison with a married man (Ian Saxton). the bed is free on Friday evenings and, in a sense, she is indulging in adultery by proxy.
This creates the usual farcical situations which ought to be quite funny but which rarely managed to attract much laughter from the first night audience. Say Who You Are has the elements of a good play but its 'sophisticated comedy' tag is misplaced on a verbose and only moderately entertaining '40s style offering. Geoffrey Clifton-Green's direction lacks sparkle and pace. The set, however, is well conceived.
Say Who You Are continues at the Edward Alderton Theatre, Bexleyheath, until this Saturday.
Roy Atterbury
Kentish Times | 11 July 1991
