Cast & Crew
Director: Máire Robinson
Assistant Director: Anna-Rose van der Wiel Producer: Jason Naylor Assistant Producers: Charlotte Maddocks Stage Manager: Danni Manning Assistant Stage Manager: Abigail Dutton Beverly: Charlotte Davey Laurence: Jordan Summerfield Angela: Natalie Fisher Tony: James Boné Sue: Ffion King |
Beverly invites her new neighbours, Angela and Tony, who moved into the road just two weeks ago, over for drinks. She has also invited her neighbour Sue, divorced for three years, whose fifteen-year-old daughter Abigail is holding a party at home. Beverly's husband Laurence comes home late from work, just before the guests arrive. The gathering starts off in a stiff, insensitive, British middle class way as the virtual strangers tentatively gather, until Beverly and Laurence start sniping at each other. As Beverly serves more drinks and the alcohol takes effect, Beverly flirts more and more overtly with Tony, as Laurence sits impotently by. Within this simple framework, all of the obsessions, prejudices, fears and petty competitiveness of the protagonists are ruthlessly exposed.
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