Review by Paul Towers, 10/11/25
Things I Know To Be True by Andrew Bovell
Directed by Nadine Beasley
Produced by Leicester Drama Society
At The Little Theatre til Saturday 15th November 2025
Things I Know To Be True is a family drama set in Australia. Thankfully director Nadine Beasley has chosen not to attempt authentic accents.
The Price family, two parents and their four children, live in a nice suburban house in Adelaide. Father, Bob, (Paul Beasley) was recently made redundant and has retreated to his garden to occupy himself while his wife, Fran (Nicky Mewer) works as a nurse and organises the entire family. Youngest son, Mark (Joe Allen), is in the throes of leaving his wife while, coincidentally, eldest daughter Pip (Kate Carey) wants to leave her husband and move to Vancouver.
Eldest son, Ben (Richie Phillips), arrives with an extravagant car and a suspiciously vague source of funding it. Youngest daughter, Rosie (Sophie Johnston) has returned unexpectedly from her gap year travelling around Europe and is reluctant to say why. All of this puts Mother Fran in a spin and she goes into Mom-zilla mode demanding Rosie gives her every detail of what went wrong.
But it isn’t just Rosie who gets both barrels of her over-protectiveness. Both Pip and Mark are castigated for failing in their respective marriages as she expects them to follow their parents’ example and plough through any hiccups in their relationships.
By pushing so hard at her family Fran exposes the cracks both in her relationship with them but also with her husband.
While this all sounds quite heavy there are lighter moments and director Nadine Beasley has managed to squeeze quite a few laughs out along the way. As always with Leicester Drama Society productions the acting is first rate.
Things I Know To Be True runs at The Little Theatre until Saturday 15th November.
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