Season's Greetings
From: Wednesday, 1st December 2010
To: Sunday, 13 March 2011
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Synopsis
As Neville and Belinda Bunker prepare for the Festive Season, Neville has again forgotten to buy his wife a present, sister Rachel is in her usual state about her love life, Uncle Bernard is planning yet another of his interminable children's puppet shows, Uncle Harvey is growing more eccentric than ever, Patti and husband Eddie are at t heir customary loggerheads, whilst in the kitchen, Auntie Phyllis is drunk in charge of their dinner. All in all, just another typical Christmas for the Bunker family. Until, that is, something really disastrous occurs...
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 9 December 2010
This is a big moment in the National Theatre’s history: the establishment in the heart of its repertoire of one of Alan Ayckbourn’s farcical masterpieces in a well-timed, brilliantly perceptive and bleak mid-winter revival by Marianne Elliott.
Presents are untimely ripped open by the tree on Christmas Eve, and one of them, a drumming Teddy, goes completely bonkers. Catherine Tate’s raw and raunchy Belinda is more than bovvered – she’s bewitched and bewildered – as the married hostess falling in small hours lust with a small-time writer, in her own house: she and Oliver Chris are soon at it like rabbits all over the furniture.
Then there’s the puppet show being prepared by Mark Gatiss as the sad Chekhovian doctor married to Belinda’s sister-in-law: his rehearsal/preview is attended by the hyper-critical Uncle Harvey (a magnificently belligerent David Troughton) whose objections boil over into destruction.
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L.Dodd - 10 February 2011:
Thoroughly enjoyed this: I don't often laugh out loud in the theatre (often sit smiling happily, surrounded by others enjoying in a more vocal way) but I hooted and chortled with the best, and nearly applauded some of the best and more physical moments. And a wonderful set. Highly recommended....
Cast
Oliver Chris (Clive)
Mark Gatiss (Bernard)
Katherine Parkinson (Pattie)
Jenna Russell (Phyllis)
Neil Stuke (Neville)
Catherine Tate (Belinda)
David Troughton (Harvey)
Nicola Walker (Rachel)
Marc Wootton (Eddie)
Creative
Alan Ayckbourn (Author)
KPMG (Corporate Sponsor)
National Theatre (Producer)
Marianne Elliott (Director)
Rae Smith (Design)
Bruno Poet (Lighting)
Stephen Warbeck (Music)
Ian Dickinson (Sound)
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