Showing posts with label Season's Greetings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Season's Greetings. Show all posts

Monday, January 12, 2015

Season's Greetings (Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold)

Pic: Catherine Ashmore
Archive: This review was first published on October 9, 2013 by the Daily Post

We may have more than ten weeks to go until Christmas, but that shouldn't stop you seeing the latest play being staged by Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold.

Season's Greetings by prolific playwright Alan Ayckbourn takes place over the course of two and a half days, starting on Christmas Eve. The action takes place in the home of Neville and Belinda, and is firmly set in the 1980s, when the original play was written and set.

Their guests include Nev's blood-thirsty uncle Harvey; Nev's tipsy sister Phyllis and her grey husband Bernard; Belinda's sister Rachel and her new beau Clive; and Nev's dim-witted friend Eddie and his heavily pregnant wife Pattie. There's also a bunch of raucous children in evidence, but they are represented by off-stage recordings (I assume it was recordings and not actual children being denied their limelight!).