Abigail’s Party
- By:
- Mike Leigh
- Management:
- Menier Chocolate Factory, in conjunction with Theatre Royal Bath Productions
- Cast:
- Jill Halfpenny, Joe Absolom, Natalie Casey, Susannah Harker, Andy Nyman
- Director:
- Lindsay Posner
- Design:
- Mike Britton (also costumes)
- Sound:
- Fergus O'Hare
- Lighting:
- Howard Harrison
Production information can change over the run of the show.
The popularity of this dark comedy of manners by Mike Leigh, aside from its intrinsic merits, rests very much on the television recording of the original production as part of the BBC's Play For Today series that, thanks to a strike at ITV attracted, 16 million viewers. The nation warmed to this achingly bleak observation of the British class system as it flourished in the late 1970s and made a household name of its star, Alison Steadman as the hostess Beverly...
Run sheet
- Menier Chocolate Factory London
- March 8-April 21
- Theatre Royal Bath
- April 23-28
- Wyndham's London
- May 18-September 1
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