January 2007
A Bird In The Bush Play Review
Monday, January 01, 2007 by Charles Vance

by Ron Nicol

Spotlight Publications

ISBN: 1 904930 81 6

(2m 3f) Rights: Spotlight Publications

Set in a bedroom on a hot summer’s night, Bernard’s family – his wife Marjorie and their two daughters, Kate and Jessica - are kept awake by Bernard’s interminable stomach-ache coupled with his obsessive hatred of a cooing pigeon.

When he decides to track the unfortunate bird to its lair, his elder daughter’s fiancé and their next door neighbour become embroiled in his fixation about the pigeon. Things reach such a pitch that the police are eventually called in and the play ends with what can only be described as an hilarious, almost farcical series of events, in which Bernard is forced to face up to the consequences of his irrational behaviour and the wrath of his unfortunate long-suffering wife.