Season's Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn (December, 2023)

Season's Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn

It's just a typical British Christmas at Belinda and Neville's home...or is it?

Neville has, once again, forgotten to buy his wife Belinda a gift. Uncle Harvey is glued to the TV watching a non-stop marathon of action films. Neville's friend Eddie and his wife Pattie are practically at each other's throats. Phyllis slowly gets sloshed on the cooking wine. Her inept husband Bernard is intent on his annual, terrible, puppet show. All sounds pretty normal, until Belinda's sister Rachel invites the handsome Clive to the home - a writer friend no one in the family knows - and then things really start to go awry.

This is a hilarious and universal tale of holiday dysfunctionality.

Production team

  • Director & Costumes: Jennifer Scott-Reid
  • Set Design: Sarah Deboys
  • Sound: Matthew Stafford
  • Lighting: Mark Easterfield
  • Hair & Makeup: Hannah Curtis
  • Props: Chris Avery
  • Continuity & Book: Jean Schofield
  • Social Media manager: Lucy Woodcock
  • Stage Manager: K-M White
  • Deputy Stage Manager: Alice Aitken
  • Photography: Paul Ashley & DeeDee Doke
  • Technical Director: Martin Avery
  • Master Carpenter: Martin Avery
  • Deputy Stage Manager: Anna Perry
  • Poster & Programme design: Steve Doke

Cast list

  • Neville: Daniel Aspel
  • Belinda: Lucy Woodcock
  • Harvey: Barry Brown
  • Bernard: Colin Horne
  • Phyllis: Rebecca Hawker
  • Pattie: Danielle Padley
  • Eddie: Mark Skinner
  • Rachel: Jenny Scudamore
  • Clive: Luke Thomas