This is a show about love that has been made with love. A few years back,Danny Braverman‘s mother gave him some shoeboxes that had belonged to his great uncle Ab Solomons. Inside the boxes were hundreds of wage packets with doodles that shoemaker Ab had drawn on them.
Every Thursday – from 1926, when they married, to 1982, when she died – Ab would give his wife, Celie, one of these wage packets with the housekeeping. They are an eloquent portrait of love and of a marriage through its ups and downs. There is even one in which Ab seems to be trying to persuade his wife away from the divorce court. Read more…
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/jul/09/wot-no-fish-review-battersea-arts-centre-london




