A family comedy with a decidedly darker side!
By Michael Palin
Directed by Joan Beresford

Faced with a family gathering, world-weary, cantankerous, miserable, misanthropic Stephen Febble does his best to be difficult!
When his daughter, her dreary husband, their precocious daughter and – not least – the dog come to stay for the weekend, it’s enough to make him reach for the whisky bottle, and for the sarcasm.
All Stephen wants to do is to be left alone. Not easy when his patient, long-suffering wife Virginia fills the house with guests and arranges a dinner party for them all. Stephen responds in the only way he knows how – with a monstrous display of rudeness!
Michael Palin’s riot of a comedy not only takes a very funny look at family values, but has an ever-present dark side.

Booking opens Monday 1st March 2010