Rachel: Listen, Clive, if you’re going to say something of great importance to me, do you think you could possibly take that beard off?

On the 12th day of Christmas my true love sent to me…

12 toys a-drumming
11 puddings piping
10 hours of telly
9 round for dinner
8 gift-wrapped presents
7 pocket hankies
6 ginger wines
5 bo-ard games!!!
4 lovers’ tiffs
3 little pigs
2 gunshots
And a fumble in a fir tree…

Bunker household this play takes the traditional family Christmas mania and spins it into a farce of huge comic proportions, in classic Ayckbourn style. Directed by Nikolai Foster, one of this country’s most exceptional directors, Season’s Greetings is the Playhouse’s own Christmas Special that won’t have you reaching for the remote control!

First presented at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough on 25 September 1980 and subsequently by Michael Codron at the Apollo Theatre in London in the Greenwich Theatre production on 29 March 1982.