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Season's Greetings

by

Alan Ayckbourn

November

2012

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SYNOPSIS

It is Christmas and Belinda and Neville are celebrating with relatives and friends. The family includes Neville's alcoholic sister, Phyllis, and her husband Bernard, an incompetent doctor whose annual puppet shows are disastrous and boring to young and old alike. Add Neville's friend Eddie and his pregnant wife, Pattie, Uncle Harvey, a slightly senile retired security guard and TV addict, Rachel, Belinda's unmarried and emotionally unstable sister, and finally Clive, a writer in an unsuccessful relationship with Rachel. Forced together over 3 days at Christmas, the chaotic atmosphere becomes explosive...

DIRECTOR

Anni Fuchs

CAST

Neville

Matt Miller

Belinda, his wife

Tricia Tomlinson Schmid

Phyllis, his sister

Claudia Wicki

Harvey, his uncle

Stephen Brindley

Bernard, Phyllis's husband

Terry Menard

Rachel, Belinda's unmarried sister

Susi Bott

Eddie, a friend of Neville

James Langridge

Pattie, Eddie's pregnant wife

Deborah Somers

Clive, a friend of Rachel

Paul Day

Director

Anni Fuchs

PRODUCTION PHOTOS

BEHIND THE SCENES

Production Co-ordinator

Tiina Palojärvi

Set Design

Firman Burke

Stage Manager

Ana Alvarez Requejo

Assistant Stage Managers

Daniele Dagani with Noeleen Blaich, Sheila Von Arx, Tom Namovich, Sally Krauer

Lighting Design

Andreas Stahl

Lighting Crew

Tom Hofmaenner, Carolina Diaz Quijano, Iain Richardson, Jan Sinstadt

Sound Design

Phil Margolis

Sound Crew

Hans Schmid, Gagan Narula

Prompters

Lynda Kloman, Irene Lautenbach

Tabs Operators

Ales Kral, Cameron Roy

Costumes

Claudia Bodmer, Tania Khanschassoff, Anne Jiricny

Make-up

Christine Eusebio-Ellis, Maureen Grimm, Natalia Afanasyeva

Front of House

Valery Niggli, Joan Bridgman, Members of the Club

Block Bookings

Tricia Tomlinson-Schmid

Box Office

Phil Margolis, Members of the Club

Programme Editor

David Roscoe

Flyer and Programme Design

Paul Bilton

Production Stills

Firman Burke

Publicity

Paul Bilton

Press Officer

Ana Alvarez Requejo

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