Bournemouth Little Theatre, 28 – 30 October 2013, 7.45 (doors open at 7pm)
Tickets are £7.50 and £5 (OAPs and Students with ID), available HERE or on the door. Alternatively send an email to [email protected] or call 07950 878859.
“Welcome back to Ayckbourn country, and one of the master’s favourite jousting grounds: the disastrous invasion of the family get-together.The setting is a docklands flat. Justin and Julie-Ann, both in computers, have invited their prospective in-laws to announce their engagement. He is serious, kind, eager to please, anxious: when you see his ghastly mother from Godalming, you know he has plenty to be anxious about. She is a shrill little domestic dynamo, a pouter pigeon with a mission. When you see Julie-Ann’s parents, a neanderthal conservative businessman and compulsive joker with a dim, twee wife to match, you understand why her older sisters live far away. This is bad enough chemistry; but the bizarre arrival from upstairs of a boxing promoter’s moll and her huge, intellectually challenged minder has a near-apoplectic impact.
One of Ayckbourn’s greatest skills is the mixing of the accidental and the improbable with the inevitable and the realistic, and here he displays it with magisterial cunning. The writing is as funny, nimble and lethally observant as ever.” The Sunday Times
