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Julie and Aaron

by Gingersnap4Helen | YouTube | August 18, 2012

Plot: Things aren’t going well for 25-year-old Aaron Simmons. He is living with his parents, cannot find a job and his ex-girlfriend is about to marry his brother. Talk about the not-going-well trifecta. Enter Julie Ranmore, a 44-year-old, married mother of two – but the passion in her marriage has long since gone. Julie and Aaron meet on the night of his brother’s wedding when Aaron is a drunk, miserable mess. During their first meeting, each is unaware that the moment is the unlikely start to an unlikely relationship. When Julie gives him a reality check the next morning, Aaron becomes more determined to find a job and leave behind his childhood bedroom. That determination eventually leads to him getting a job at the hotel where Julie works. When they start working together, a bond begins to form. The ensuing events have profound implications for both as they come to terms with finding love in the unlikeliest of places.

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Review: The Last of the Haussmans

Hippy Dippy

By Michael Billington | June 20, 2012 | The Guardian

Plays about the legacy of the 1960s are becoming increasingly common. After Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love and Alexi Kaye Campbell’s Apologia, we now have this debut from Stephen Beresford. As an actor himself, he knows how to write whacking good parts and has all the benefits of a meticulous National production, but he rarely makes you feel the family he portrays can provide a metaphor for a generation.

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