CURRENT PRODUCTION
Abigail’s Party at Hever Festival Theatre
21 & 22 August
We’re delighted to be bringing our hugely successful 2024 production of Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh to Hever Festival Theatre this August, following a special invitation from the Festival organisers.
Set in 1977 suburbia, Abigail’s Party unfolds over one excruciatingly awkward evening as hostess Beverley and her long‑suffering husband Lawrence welcome guests for drinks. As the gin and tonics flow and Demis Roussos spins on the record player, polite conversation gives way to social one‑upmanship, simmering resentment and quietly devastating consequences.
“I only like the very best.”
“Well, I think we should all try and enjoy ourselves.”
A tragi‑comic masterpiece, Abigail’s Party is both painfully funny and uncomfortably familiar – a brilliant time capsule of late‑1970s Britain and the rise of lower‑middle‑class aspiration.
We’re thrilled that Rachel Dresyner, Steve Jones, Andrew Robinson and Anna Rumgay return to complete the cast, with Phoebe Sleeman joining the company for this revival. Andrew Dore and the team are also hoping to recreate the much‑loved set and effects from our original production.
We’re incredibly excited to be putting this show on again – and we’d love to see you at Hever Festival Theatre this August.