SATURDAY AND SWEET F.A.
Our pals Stuart and Jen Morriss of the Misty Moon Film Society have been very busy of late on all manner of new projects, and it’s always a pleasure to join them at their events. In fact I enjoyed a fabulous day out recently when I attended their Saturday afternoon audio recording of two great Misty Moon comedy shows at London’s Phoenix Arts Club. Remember Frankie Abbott from Please Sir! and The Fenn Street Gang? Played by David Barry, he was F.A. the gum-chewing mother’s boy who talked tough and said he was a magnet for ‘tarts,’ though he basically lived in a world of fantasy. David Barry is also an accomplished comedy writer who scripted such popular TV shows as Keep it in the Family back in the day. Now he’s brought back his most famous character in a hilarious but also strangely poignant fashion in Misty Moon’s Production of The Lives of Frankie Abbott.