Robert Powell, Liza Goddard

Relatively Speaking was Alan Ayckbourn’ s first West End hit and turned him into a household name.

When the show opened at the Duke of york’s Theatre in 1967, the critics hailed the arrival of a great new comic talent.

Beautifully crafted, uproariously funny and charmingly English, Relatively Speaking is the perfect entertainment with which to start your Christmas.

Greg only met Ginny a month ago but has already made up his mind that she’s the girl for him. When she tells him that she’s going to visit her parents, he decides this is the moment to ask her father for his daughter’s hand. Discovering a scribbled address, he follows her to Buckinghamshire where he fi nds Philip and Sheila enjoying a peaceful Sunday morning breakfast in the garden, but the only thing is – they’re not Ginny’s parents.