Project Description
‘Ingenious take on a family’s Christmas crisis’
‘Sam Holcroft’s family Christmas comedy is all familiar stuff, but it’s performed with abrasive energy and is still horribly funny’
‘I left aching with laughter’
‘Glorious bun fight’
‘Hilariously extreme’
‘The. Best. Stage. Fight. Ever. Period’
Everyone creates their own rules for living. But what happens when an extended family gathers for a traditional Christmas dinner and each of them rigidly follows those rules?
Christmas Day will never be the same again. As the drinks flow and the obligatory games intensify, family resentments rise and relationships are pulled apart with a bang.
Creatives
Writer – Sam Holcroft
Director – Simon Godwin
Designer – Lily Arnold
Lighting Designer – Matt Daw
Composer & Sound Designer – Mark Melville
Video Designer – Andrzej Goulding
Movement Director – Shelley Maxwell
Fight Director – Kev McCurdy
Casting Director – Hancock Stevenson Casting
Associate Director – Spencer Noll
Associate Lighting Designer – Sam Waddington
Advertising & Marketing – Joe Public Ltd
Press & Publicity – Kate Morley PR
Cast
Jane Booker
Jolyon Coy
Ed Hughes
Carlyss Peer
Laura Rogers
Paul Shelley
Produced for and on behalf of English Touring Theatre, The Royal & Derngate Northampton & Rose Theatre Kingston