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Set in 1977’s British suburban
wasteland, Abigail’s Party is one of the most squirm
inducing and witheringly funny comedies of the 20th Century.
Whilst fifteen year-old Abigail hosts her first real party,
savvy socialite Beverly has invited the new neighbours
around for drinkies and nibbles at the cocktail party of the
season. Armed with enough booze to drown a Shetland pony,
the incessant warblings of Demis Roussos coming from the
record player, and a barrage of little cheesy-pineapples on
sticks arranged in perfect formation, what could possibly go
wrong?
As the evening progresses, Beverly’s best laid plans fall to
ruin, as cracks in the veneer of the suburbanites begin to
show, leading to a fractious and pompous civil war across a
battlefield of spilt gin, blackened cigarette butts and the
odd splash of vomit. An unrelenting satire that rips the
façade of England’s middle classes limb from limb, Abigail’s
Party exposes the obsessions, prejudices and manipulative
competitiveness that lurk in the darkness of the human
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