By ALAN AYCKBOURN
Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of
three successive years. The “lower class” but very much up and coming
Hopcrofts are in their bright new, gadget filled kitchen anxiously
giving a little party for their bank manager and his wife and an
architect neighbour. Next there are the architect and his wife in their neglected, untidy flat. Then the bank manager and his wife are in their large, slightly
modernized, old Victorian style kitchen. Running like a dark thread
through the wild comedy of behind the scenes disasters at Christmas
parties is the story of the advance of the Hopcrofts to material
prosperity and independence and the decline of the others. In the final stages the little man is well and truly on top, with the others, literally and unnervingly, dancing to his tune
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