Every audience member was on their mobile phone, responding to polls as to which character, past or present, they’d like to be [spoiler alert: at the Brighton show I attended, good-time girl Lilian was the clear winner ahead of that ol’ beauty Walter Gabriel], asking questions of the cast on stage, and taking part in “The Bull Pub Quiz”. In short, this was a production big on audience interaction.
Many devoted fans have bought two tickets, to see the different casts in separate locations – Brighton fans who can wait until September can see the Produce cast in Bexhill-on-Sea.
In reality, it’s so much more than that. The night is hosted by comedian Angela Barnes, who you may be more familiar with seated on a TV comedy show than running through a two-minute soliloquy on the events of 75 years in Borsetshire, but she proves to be a true Ambridge addict with her frequent asides about the characters we love to hate and a knowing joke about the audience having the highest proportion of Le Creuset owners in any theatre.
Though perhaps they are part of the five per cent of the audience who admitted in one phone poll to never having had listened to The Archers – a statistic that’s balanced by the six per cent who have been listening since the very start in 1951.
It feels like too much of a spoiler to repeat too many of the backstage secrets divulged on the night – as I’m sure they’re well rehearsed and repeated each night – but we do get to learn how to kiss in Ambridge and what happens if you dare take other work instead of The Archers.
We’re not talking two halves of a coconut shell for horses’ hooves – there’s a real genius in the level of detail required to ape the sound of Eddie Grundy shaving and even the metallic creak of every farm gate opening and closing.
It’s a brilliant evening for any Archers devotee, which walks a fine line between enthusiasm, reverence and self-deprecation over the goings-on in Ambridge that have been entertaining (and occasionally infuriating) us for 75 years.
The Archers Live at 75 tour runs 7 June–26 November. Tickets are available for The Archers live tour now.
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