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The Good Intent is a mixture of a true story along with some fictional sub plots, with a real life hero interacting with fictional characters.
The main character in The Good Intent is Sanders-Draper who was a real life hero when he crash landed his plane killing himself instead of crashing into Suttons school and killing lots of children.
Ben Goddard was Sanders-Draper and he was excellent, he had a good American accent and a fantastic singing voice which suited both the up-tempo song and the ballad he had to sing and Ben is a great addition to Cut to the Chase.
Carol Sloman was OK in her 2 roles of Ivy, the barmaid, and a WAAF. I�d seen Carol earlier in the year in A Midsummer Night�s Dream and felt that she was much better in that show.
Emily Gardner is another newcomer to Cut to the Chase and she played Rose, woman who is married to Jim but befriends Sanders-Draper. It�s a good debut performance from Emily and I look forward to seeing more of her in the future.
Jim Bywater and James Earl Adair are the ARP wardens and they are both really funny and work so well together. And I loved their song The Blackout Rag.
Phil Reed and Loveday Smith are the love interest in the story, all be it a fictional part. They are Charlie, a dashing RAF pilot and Edie, a WAAF. I�ve always loved watching Phil on stage and this was no exception as he was great as Charlie and I loved his solo song, Waiting for the Rain, which was the first song in the show. I�d never seen Loveday before but she was great and I enjoyed her performance as Edie, especially the emotional song This Isn�t Cricket.
Richard Emerson was really funny as the spiv, Tommy, and I loved the scene where he was trying to convince his brother Jim that dressing as a woman was a way to escape capture by the military police.
And finally Nick Lashbrook is Jim, a sailor who is deeply traumatised by events that happened to him at sea. It�s a really emotional performance from Nick and I found myself in tears at some points and that is a credit to Nick�s acting.
It was a great show, well written with some fabulous songs and it was great to see a show with local significance at the Queen�s.
Evie Hartman-Clark
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