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‘Season’s Greetings’

by Alan Ayckbourn.

 

Auditions: Sunday 29th April 2018, 3pm.

Playing Dates:  30th November – 8th December 2018.

Director: Adrian Bowd.

Half a dozen friends and relatives are celebrating Christmas with Neville and Belinda. Various children are also there and, though unseen, their presence is always felt. Petty squabbles break out and some not so petty. The arrival of Clive, a young writer, leads to what momentarily appears to be a tragedy: Clive is shot by trigger happy Harvey who thinks he is a burglar. Hilarious highlights include a chaotically incompetent puppet show and a midnight love scene that sets off a fearful din among mechanical Christmas toys.

“Brilliantly combines cynicism and humor.” – Sunday Express.

“Superbly crafted.” – Sunday Telegraph.

Characters

Bernard

a feeble-spirited doctor, with strong views on non-violence and obsessed with a dismal puppet show for the children;

Phyllis

Bernard’s lush of a wife, whom Bernard struggles to support;

Neville

Phyllis’s brother. always busy fiddling with anything mechanical out in his shed;

Belinda

Endures a stale marriage to Neville, resorting to flapping about the house and constantly dressing the Christmas tree.

Eddie

A lacklustre and lazy man who tried to strike out on his own but failed, sucks up to his friend Neville for work;

Pattie

Eddie’s pregnant wife, largely ignored, and can only nag at him and wish she were not having another child;

Rachel

Belinda’s emotionally fuddled sister;

Clive

A writer, in a non-starter of a relationship with Rachel

Harvey

Neville and Phyllis’s uncle, a cantankerous man who boasts about “thirty years experience” as a security officer, bemoans the collapse of society whilst himself gorging on TV violence, much to Bernard’s annoyance.

Scripts will be available to hire from the Box Office.

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