I found this production very entertaining. It was my introduction to Alan Ayckbourn, and I highly enjoyed it. Hilariously funny but with incredibly powerful and emotional moments. These relationships are totally believable and devastating, but provide genius comedic situations. The idea of a family at Christmas turning into chaos is fairly obvious, but was executed in superb fashion.
One of the main attractions to this performance was the fantastic cast (most of whom had been in various BBC dramas). Catherine Tate and Mark Gatiss starred, to name a few. All the characters were played to perfection.
However, a mess up in the ticket office meant that our school party were all given tickets for that days matinee (which we of course missed). The performance was entirely sold out, so we had to stand at the back. Not ideal, but bearable nonetheless.
The production was good enough to not mind the standing up. It really was superb.
P.S. The National Theatre is the coolest building ever.
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