Bibliograph

Season's greetings, a play, Alan Ayckbourn

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Season's greetings, a play, Alan Ayckbourn

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Season's greetings

Oclc number

9526923

Responsibility statement

Alan Ayckbourn

Sub title

a play

Summary

Half a dozen friends and relatives are celebrating Christmas with Neville and Belinda. Various children are also there: though unseen, their presence is always felt and indeed seems duplicated in the adults. Petty, and not so petty, squabbles break out and the Christmas presents are rifled. A final climax, resulting from the arrival of Clive, leads to what appears to be tragedy as he is shot by the trigger-happy Harvey as a looter. Hilarious highlights include a chaotically incompetent puppet show and a midnight love scene that ends by setting up a fearful din among several mechanical Christmas presents

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