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★★★★ “Devilishly funny… an unabashed delight” The Times
★★★★ “Blanche McIntyre’s deft, poignant production” Financial Times
★★★★ “A crackling family comedy” The Guardian
★★★★ “Greenberg’s way with language was itself dreamy” London Theatre
★★★★ “A fantastic story with writing full of richness and subtlety led to a wonderful watch” All that Dazzles
★★★★ “It was a joy to experience the two acts of this play” London Box Office
★★★★ “If you enjoy witty plays, excellent actors and interesting discussions, then this is the show for you” Theatre Tonic
★★★★ “A thoughtful, funny and heartfelt story” West End Best Friend

Former movie star Julie Bascov insists on taking Christmas seriously – despite her family’s reminders that that they are in fact Jewish. Every year, she and her impossibly well-heeled husband Ben host a feast in their palatial apartment on Central Park West. In December 1980, their son and his best friend Jeff come down from Harvard to join the party, and Jeff is dazzled by the Bascov clan. But when he returns for the same occasion twenty years later he finds that much that was sown in 1980 has been reaped in the intervening years…

Richard Greenberg’s virtuosic comedy-drama was such a sensation when it played on Broadway in 2013 that it had to be extended three times. Greenberg, who died in July of this year, is familiar for his plays Three Days of Rain and Take Me Out – both Pulitzer nominees.