Double Bill

Relatively Speaking was originally written for Stephen Joseph in Scarborough, answering a request for a play to make people laugh the their summer holidays were spoiled by the rain. It was Ayckbourn's first London success in 1967 and established him as a wonderfully original comic talent whose plays have continued to make people laugh ever since. The misunderstandings between Ginny and Greg who want to marry but can't until Ginny has discarded her dubious past lead to a typical Ayckbourn series of hilarious confusions and mistaken identities involving Michael Aldridge and Rosemary Leach as the other couple.Season's Greetings provides even more complex permutations of marital understandings and changing relatioships. There are uproarious errors of incomprehension as to the precise emotional involvement of the bunkers' relatives and friends invited for Christmas. Nicky Henson, Maggie McCarthy and Peter Vaughan star.Running time: 3 hours.