Betty Blue Eyes at the Novello Theatre, London Matinee performances of Betty Blue Eyes are on Thursdays & Saturdays. Based on Alan Bennett’s humorous film ‘A Private Function’, Betty Blue Eyes is a new musical with a fantastic British cast headed by Reece Shearsmith & Sarah Lancashire. The year is 1947, but having won the war Britain seems to be losing the peace as shortages & rationing continue to bite. A royal wedding looks set to lift the gloom, though when a Yorkshire community decides to raise its own pig for a bit of extra meat trouble comes knocking in the shape of a fastidious government food inspector.