'Source' (or is that 'Sauce'?)

I have never actually written a play myself and it's not often I see a play and think 'I wish I'd written that'. 'Source' was in fact written by the late Rod Oscar West - the last instalment in his substantial body of work - and arguably the best. This (relatively short) play covers 150 years in the life of a UK sauce factory, subtly represented by a wayside chapel, which is of course only the backdrop to an incisive and erudite character study covering 'politics of difference', identity and social status. There is a foreboding in the feisty suffragette of the first scene which reaches fruition in the (opposite to mysoginistic)futuristic female dictator of the last scene - signifying the inevitable demise of the paternalistic society as we know it. Despite earlier health issues among the cast, director Hywell Williams has chosen a highly skilled company of four whose aggregate experience carries them smoothly over the occasional rough patch and delivers a masterful/mistressful and entertaining performance. Design was good (especially the stonework) and I loved the offstage womens voices at the beginning of the third scene. Well done, all!