Event info
Start Time: 7.30pm
Tickets: £15.00 Concessions: £13.00
Description
"comic gold" - NE Theatre
“ … what a triumph. Get a ticket or miss out big time” - audience member
“ ... one of the best shows I've seen at the People's. Absolutely hilarious and the performances are all wonderful. Go and see.” - audience member
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Ever since its inception in 1977, first at the Hampstead Theatre, then BBC television’s Play for Today, then the West End, Mike Leigh’s hilarious take on middle class suburban values has been a cult classic.
Offering a relentlessly uncomfortable yet laugh-out-loud look at strained relationships and awkward social situations, this modern comedy of bad manners has lost none of its power over the years, and remains a wry observation of the gauche, aspirational bourgeoisie.
So come on in, pull up a chair, and let hostess-from-hell Beverly offer you a “cheesy pineapple thing” while she humiliates her hapless husband Laurence, all to a soundtrack by Demis Roussos.
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This amateur production of “Abigail's Party” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.
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Cast
Beverly: Anna Dobson
Laurence: Sean Burnside
Angela: Emma Jane Robson
Tony: Mark Burden
Susan: Alison Carr
Production Team
Director: Sam Hinton
Assistant Director: Kath Frazer
Stage Manager: Sasha Quigg
Assistant Stage Manager: Daniel Magee
Set Design: Claire Leighton
Set Build Lead: Alan Potts
Set Building/Painting: Josh Gray Ruth Gibson Sam Hinton Claire Leighton Sasha Quigg Hope McDonald Cj Zangerle Murray
Lighting Design: Tim Swinton
Sound Design: Tim Swinton
Costumes: Paula Smart
Props: Maggie Childs Ann Tweedie Hope McDonald Claire Leighton
Rehearsal Prompt: Catherine Hope
Understudy: Sara Jo Harrison
Thanks to RPM Music for loan of record player.