ABIGAIL'S PARTY (part 1)

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From The Internet Movie Database: A TV play based on the Hampstead Theatre production. Beverly has invited her new neighbours, Angela and Tony, over for drinks. She has also asked her divorced neighbour, Sue, because Sue's fifteen year-old daughter, Abigail, was holding a party in their house. Beverly's husband, Lawrence comes home late from work, just before the guests arrive. The gathering starts off in a stiff insensitive British middle class way with people who do not know each other, until Beverly and Lawrence start sniping at each other. Synopsis written by Will Gilbert.

Sounds a bit dull, humdrum etc? Well, the actor's interaction and the fact that there is much improvising going on (it had to be edited quite a bit..) makes this play the tense (and at times quite dark) classic that it has now become!


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[ChannelEggnog]

No one of that name in the end credits..

[MissIrishBelle]

Amazing! They should have made a TV Series of this

[kayvodames]

This is pure class.

[eelpieballox]

Naloxone Theatre Ensemble

Proudly present

Mike Leigh’s ‘Classic’ play

ABIGAIL’S PARTY

Friends meeting house, Quaker rooms, York, YO1 9RL

16th – 17th and 18th Feb 2012 @ 8.pm  o’clock pm (Inc 3.pm o’clock Saturday matinee)

£10 full - £6 (Cons, disabled, students and over 65)

Tickets available at YORK THEATRE ROYAL box office

[eelpieballox]

no MIKE LEIGH could'nt work with that jerk,,

[helloannabel]

Thank you so much for this! excellent!

[rohangb]

Thanks so much for uploading this masterpiece, which I have being looking for off and on for ages.

[mirandas111]

Thank you for posting. Brings back horrifying memories of my family in the seventies