Season's greetings
Subtitle: a play
By: Alan Ayckbourn.
Publisher: S. French
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Description: 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.