by Alan Ayckbourn Directed by Vanessa Comer Main House

Self-made businessman Gerry Stratton has organised a small family dinner at his favourite local restaurant to celebrate his wife Laura’s fifty-fourth birthday. His son Glyn is there with his long-suffering wife Stephanie, and younger son Adam has brought along his new girlfriend Maureen, an outrageously behaved hairdresser. The occasion suggests a happy domestic scene but gradually we become aware of the family skeletons. From the present, Glyn’s story moves forward in time and Adam’s backward, while at the centre Gerry and Laura pick apart their marriage and recall first love.

‘Very funny, and not at all funny: quintessentially Ayckbourn’ – The Times

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