For Agatha the answers were a Tuesday and so spend the afternoon in Battersea Park.
Tickets had been selling well and I was forced into seat A1 (i.e. at the end of the row rather than the centre) for a very affordable £14.
The afternoon started with a little setback when Sloane Square failed to provide a cafe so I headed straight down to Battersea Park and Pear Tree Cafe on the pond there.
Cake and coffee consumed I walked around the park for the best part of an hour. As usual the highlights were the Festival of Britain complex and the adjacent Old English Garden.
Arriving at The Latchmere, the pub below the theatre, a little earlier than I originally expected so I took a risk and ordered some bar snacks. The risk almost failed as they arrived about ten minutes before the show but that was just enough time as they were not that large and I had already checked in to the theatre.
The Agatha in question was a young woman in the early stages of a relationship that looked as though it was established. Then the previously unasked question of children was asked and put that relationship at risk.
Possibly influencing Agatha was her own experience where her mother had left the family soon after Agatha's birth.
For an hour or so we were voyeurs into the life of two people who clearly loved each other deeply but who suddenly had to face an unexpected problem between them. It was tense, funny and all sorts of other emotions that life is full of.
An ending came with a surprising element or two which ended the tension in the audience if not in the relationship.
Agatha was a simple setting and a simple plot but that is to deliberately undersell a play that was rich in character and emotion.
As I have a good habit of saying, Agatha was exactly the sort of play that I keep going to Theatre503 to see and that makes it my favourite theatre.
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