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Mike Leigh’s 1970s classic play ‘Abigail’s Party’ focuses on an evening of domestic hell in the guise of a suburban drinks soirée. While teenager Abigail parties a few doors away, the pretentious Beverly and her estate agent husband, Laurence, entertain their neighbours – Abigail’s mother, Susan, ex-footballer, Tony, and his wife, Angela. But as the alcohol flows, tensions in the hosts’ barely functional marriage emerge and their obsessions, prejudices and petty competitiveness are ruthlessly, and hilariously, exposed.
‘Goose-Pimples’, meanwhile, is easily as sharp and uncompromising. This time, the action focuses on ambitious casino croupier, Jackie, and Saudi businessman, Muhammad, who meet – and misunderstand – one another spectacularly.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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This play is one of the best plays I have read in a long time. It's cleverness lies in between the lines and with the characters. From an actor's point of view the play is a challenge as there is not much said that allows to to draw any real conclusions about characterisations.
The beauty of the piece though, lies in the characters. They are almost caricatures of types of people we can all imagine, and have perhaps been parodied in 1980's comedies, such as The Good Life, I can almost imagine Beverly as the Penelope Keith character! We can almost cringe at Beverly's vulgarity and feel so awful for Susan. And what exactly happened when Tony and Laurence visited Abigail's Party? The beauty is the secrets the play holds and is well worth a read and dishes up a great challenge to actors, director and readers alike.
The beauty of the piece though, lies in the characters. They are almost caricatures of types of people we can all imagine, and have perhaps been parodied in 1980's comedies, such as The Good Life, I can almost imagine Beverly as the Penelope Keith character! We can almost cringe at Beverly's vulgarity and feel so awful for Susan. And what exactly happened when Tony and Laurence visited Abigail's Party? The beauty is the secrets the play holds and is well worth a read and dishes up a great challenge to actors, director and readers alike.
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I studyed and performed in this play when I was doing my A Levels and loved it. When going into university to study acting I bought a collection of different scripts of plays that I loved and bought this. It got delivered quickly and I still love the play so overall a great purchase :)
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A great play and Mike Leigh at his best. You cant help watching this and thinking 'that's just like so and so'. The characters are true to life, very true to life and I think that is the secret of its enduring success. A most enjoyable play whether you see it on stage or screen and will always rank as a classic alongside the likes of 'Noises Off' and 'Lust In The Dust' from New Theatre Publications.
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