Abigail's Party, Theatre Royal, Norwich. March 2017.
I've never squirmed so much in a theatre where the play was causing the movement and not an uncomfortable seat!
The acting in this was terrific, not a weak link in the cast at all, they had be believing utterly that we were back in the 1970s at the most awkward drinks party ever.
None of the characters are particularly nice and as the drinks flow their true colours really start to show and my sympathies were with none of them, but such was the cast's skill - and of course Leigh's fabulous script - that my attention was held throughout.
A special mention has to go to the set for this tour which was really magnificent and yet looked like it would fold straight back into itself and transport back to the 1970s where it had clearly stolen from!
A week on from seeing this play I am still inwardly shuddering at the play, and I feel like I watched it through my fingers like the best horror movie!
Unknowingly this theatre trip also links in with my own 2017 reading challenge as it was written and first performed in 1977.
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