VIDEO: Behind-the-Scenes of San Francisco Playhouse's ABIGAIL'S PARTY, 5/21-7/6
San Francisco Playhouse (Bill English, Artistic Director and Susi Damilano, Producing Director) continues its Tenth Season, now in their new venue at 450 Post Street, with a revival of Mike Leigh's acclaimed play, Abigail's Party, directed by Amy Glazer. Check out a behind-the-scenes look below!
The ensemble cast features Julia Brothers*, Susi Damilano, PatRick Jones*, Remi Sandri* and Allison White*
This biting, hilarious, disco infused satire of British suburbia in the 70's is a party only Mike Leigh could conceive. Stolen straight from real life, these friends test the strength of the ties that bind. Beverly and her husband Laurence are hosting a cocktail party for their neighbors. There is plenty of alcohol, an array of cheese-pineapple savory bites and olives, and Donna Summer on the record player. But as prejudices are unmasked and tempers flare, the evening seems headed for disaster.
More than 35 years after its first appearance, the social discomfort, the monstrous characters, and underlying resentments seem uncomfortably familiar. Perhaps the middle class wannabe characteristics and materialistic conceits we laughed at in 1977 have become a way of life.
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