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Our Production of: Alan Ayckbourn’s Christmas Comedy
Seasons Greetings.
Elgiva Theatre: 03/10/2006 - 07/10/2006
Director: Lin Instone
Following the huge success of Noises Off and Stepping Out, New Penny Theatre Company gets into the Christmas spirit early and returns to the Elgiva with Alan Ayckbourn’s hilarious comedy, Season’s Greetings.
It is Christmas Eve, and things in the Bunker household are rapidly falling apart. Belinda is rushing around decorating the tree and seeing to all the guests and their needs. Uncle Harvey is being his usual obnoxious self. Neville has (once again) forgotten to buy his wife a present. Eddie and Pattie are having a serious showdown. Rachel has invited Clive, a writer friend no-one in the family knows, and, amongst all this, Bernard is involved in a chaotic rehearsal for his annual gift for the children, a sixteen-scene puppet show of The Three Little Pigs. To add to the confusion, Bernard’s wife, Phyllis, is in the kitchen quietly getting sloshed on the cooking wine. Then something seriously disastrous occurs…
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