Party Games

"You're not having a vasectomy. And put that knife down."

"You gag me, and I'll never speak to you again"

"That's right, he can't get it up. I thought it was quite ironic, what with him working in an umbrella factory."

"We have a dead body on the sofa. It's not going to go away of its own accord, no matter how much we shout at it."

"It's so simple. I just have to cut you into lots of little pieces..."

You are cordially invited to an evening of....

PARTY

GAMES

a black comedy

R.S.V.P.

"We invite four old friends around for a quiet dinner party, three turn up, two fall out, and one goes and bloody cops it"

Jean and Brian are a small town couple whose lives are overturned when they foolishly invite an explosive combination of old friends and ex-lovers to spend the weekend with them. The guestrs include the hapless Emily, lecherous and neurotic by turns, whose suicide precipitates panic.

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"Perhaps if I had balls you'd have more respect for me?"

"You're not having a vasectomy. And put that knife down."

"You gag me, and I'll never speak to you again"

"That's right, he can't get it up. I thought it was quite ironic, what with him working in an umbrella factory."

"We have a dead body on the sofa. It's not going to go away of its own accord, no matter how much we shout at it."

Photographs from the Edinburgh Fringe Production 1996.

Cast:

Jo Rhoden "Jean"

Anna Goodger "Barbara"

Bill Hanage "Richard"

Matt Nation "Brian"

Claire Boulden "Emily"

Directed by Bill Hanage

Produced by Matt Nation

"Has anyone seen the cat?"