Character

Mrs. Weaver

Mrs. Weaver in The Good Life (1975), played by Charmian May.

Mrs. Weaver drifts through the respectable social orbit of Surbiton that Tom and Barbara Good have deliberately stepped outside of. She is exactly the kind of proper, status-conscious neighbour the Goods' self-sufficiency experiment unsettles — polite on the surface, faintly scandalised underneath, more interested in appearances than in anything actually growing in a garden.

Charmian May plays her with the dry, clipped disapproval that made this show's comedy work: the joke isn't the pigs and vegetables, it's the reaction of people like Mrs. Weaver to them. She's a small role, but she's precisely calibrated suburban propriety, and that contrast is the engine of every scene she's in.

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Appears in

The Good Life1975