Award-winning Alan Ayckbourn Christmas comedy is currently being performed by the Ruislip Dramatic Society.
The group will be performing Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular, a classic Christmas comedy which peeps behind the kitchen door at three Christmas parties revealing hysterical happenings but also the changing fortunes of its party hosts, at the Compass Theatre, in Glebe Avenue, Ickenham.
Three Christmases, three kitchens and three wildly incompatible couples provide the ingredients for this wonderful seasonal offering from Britain’s favourite playwright.
There’s the ‘lower class’ but very much up and coming Hopcrofts in their bright new, gadget filled kitchen, keen to impress with a little party for their bank manager and his wife and an architect neighbour. Then there’s the architect himself and his wife in their neglected, untidy flat with a somewhat wild and aggressive dog. Lastly there’s the bank manager and his wife in their freezing cold, large and slightly modernised, old Victorian style kitchen.
Chaos reigns as social climbing turns into domestic disaster in this agonisingly funny Christmas comedy. The West End hit ran for nearly 1,000 performances in its first year before opening on Broadway, and has since had countless revivals plus a TV adaptation by the BBC.
Book online at ruislipdramatic.org or hillingdontheatres.uk
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