Season's Greetings
Christmas travesty by Alan Ayckbourn
Christmas – the season to be jolly! Once a year, everyone gets together to celebrate in harmony. And, as every year, it goes completely sideways.
Belinda and Neville Bunker are no exception: Uncle Harvey plans to give the kids real firearms. Neville’s aunt Phyllis turns cooking into alcohol-drenched chaos. Her husband Bernard is preparing his dreaded puppet theatre. Buffy Eddie doesn’t look after his kids. Which drives his wife, pregnant yet again, up the walls. When handsome Clive arrives, author and current lover of Belinda’s mother Rachel’s crush, the chaos under the mistletoe turns outright life-threatening. Because uncle Harvey did wrap other things, besides weapons!
Alan Ayckbourn, the grandmaster of British satire picks apart the festive insanity with relish. Turbulent theatrical entertainment with a hefty dose of British humour.
Duration
2 Stunden 30 Minuten
eine Pause
Age recommendation
14 years or older
Feel free to share!
Cast
Director: Johanna Hasse
Stage & costume design: Christian Klein
Lighting design: Tilo Schwarz
Neville: Martin Behlert
Belinda, his wife: Alice Katharina Schmidt
Phyllis, his aunt: Cornelia Heilmann
Harvey, his uncle: Stefan Holm
Bernard, Phyllis' husband: Frank Siebers
Rachel, Belinda's mother: Evelyn Nagel
Eddie, Pattie's husband: Hendrik Vogt
Pattie, Eddie's wife: Nadine Pape
Clive, Rachel's lover: Lukas Maria Redemann
Next performances
(Tickets available from bookstore Buchheim-Schöningh.)
(Tickets available from Kultur- und Tourismusinformation Bad Wimpfen.)
(Tickets available from Tourist-Info Eberbach and online.)
(Ticket details will be announced soon.)
This performance is cancelled due to illness.
(Tickets available from bookstore Schwarz auf Weiß.)
(Tickets available from Tourist Information am Marktplatz.)
(Tickets available from Tourist-Info Bretten.)
(Tickets available from Gäste-Information at the former train station.)
(Tickets available from Tourist-Info Walldürn.)
(Tickets available from Fotostudio Xana.)
(Tickets available from the city of Bad Friedrichshall.)
(Tickets available from Tourist-Info Buchen.)
(Tickets available from Kulturamt Neckarsulm.)
(Tickets available from the city of Mudau.)
(Tickets available from the location's online shop.)
(Tickets from Bücherland, bookstore Doll & Tourist-Info.)
(Tickets available from Bürgerbüro Osterburken.)
(Tickets available from 04 September 2023.)
Director Johanna Hasse bets on precicely choreographed slapstic with headstrong objects, full physical exertion, and near disrobement - the Bruchsal audience audibly enjoyed the premiere.
Sibylle Orgeldinger / Bruchsaler Rundschau
20.11.2023
Especially Evelyn Nagel gives a convincing, jealous mother Rachel, and Martin Behlert and Hendrik Vogt are absolutely credible as the child-like, playful slackers Neville and Eddie.
Jens-Eberhard-Jahn / Fränkische Nachrichten
23.11.2023