With the recession biting hard, Emily and Oliver have decided to downsize and shift their middle- class London lifestyle to a small town in the north of England.
When they open their doors and invite next-door neighbours, Dawn and Alan, round for an evening of olives, anchovies, Karl Marx and abstract art; class and culture collide, and the consequences of their disastrous evening are as tragic as they are hilarious.
From one of the most exciting playwrights to emerge since Alan Ayckbourn, Torben Betts, and produced by the award-winning Original Theatre Company (Birdsong, Three Men In A Boat), comes this riotously funny production.
Cast
Elizabeth Boag Dawn
Emily Bowker Emily
Graham Brookes Alan
Alastair Whatley Oliver
"Sit-com funny but then, unexpectedly, widens and deepens to become something much more real..."
— The Times
"A highly stimulating, enjoyable evening..."
— John Hargreaves, Express And Star
"Completely entertaining..."
— Matt Clewley, At The Theatre
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