Abigail’s Party UK Tour – Tickets and Venue Schedule 2023
London Classic Theatre present Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party UK Tour. Book Abigail’s Party UK Tour tickets.
London Classic Theatre present Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party UK Tour. Book Abigail’s Party UK Tour tickets.
Jodie Prenger leads the cast in Mike Leigh’s groundbreaking comedy classic as Abigail’s Party UK Tour comes to a theatre near you in 2019.
With new productions at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Hull Truck Theatre this month, Mark Ludmon examines the continuing popularity of Abigail’s Party With its dissection of marriage and social mobility to the sounds and tastes of the Seventies, Abigail’s Party was very much a play for its day when it was first staged in 1977 at London’s Hampstead Theatre. Attitudes to class and the impact of “women’s lib” and other changes in society were played out in the painfully awkward drinks party hosted by Beverly and her husband Laurence for their neighbours, young couple Ange and Tone and Sue, escaping her 15-year-old daughter Abigail’s eponymous party down the road. After it was adapted for BBC1 later that year, it was such a hit that it was broadcast several times, with one repeat gaining 16 million viewers (boosted by storms and an ITV strike), putting it firmly on the path … Read more
Mark Ludmon reviews Abi, Atiha Sen Gupta’s contemporary response to Abigail’s Party now playing at the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch.
Mark Ludmon reviews Mike Leigh’s iconic play Abigail’s Party now playing at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch prior to a tour.