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Abigail's Party: Play for Today

Alison Steadman

Tim Stern

Janine Duvitski

John Salthouse

Harriet Reynolds

Mike Leigh

Margaret Matheson

Play for Today: Series 8: Episode 3: Abigail's Party

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Abigail's Party

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Episode 3: Abigail's Party

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BBC One - Play for Today, Series 8, Abigail's Party

Acerbic comic drama about a neighbours' get-together in suburbia.

Acerbic comic drama about a neighbours' get-together in suburbia, in which the consumption of alcohol leads to the airing of prejudices and snobberies.

Comedy of manners focusing on the bourgeois affectation and sexual frustration of a young married couple. Abigail's mother Sue is invited to take refuge from her teenage daughter's party with a neighbouring couple, Beverly and Laurence. They have also invited Angela and Tony, new arrivals in the street. Beverly plies her guests with alcohol as Sue becomes increasingly withdrawn and embarrassed by the pretentious goings-on. Slowly, marital tensions emerge and the evening is breaking up in disarray when Laurence collapses with a heart attack.

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Eighth series of the long-running strand of one-off dramas first broadcast in 1977/78.

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