Print Room Productions

The Cocktail Party is a complex drama about the human mind, love and deceit. Piercing and perceptive, it is a radical play, moving from astute social comedy to devastating existential ghost story.

Edward and Lavinia Chamberlayne are throwing a cocktail party. The only problem is, four days before the party, Lavinia leaves Edward. Instead of cancelling, Edward plans to avert his guests’ prying enquiries after his missing wife. That is, until an ‘Unidentified Guest’ shows up at the party, with Lavinia in tow. What ensues is an examination of Lavinia’s and Edward’s relationship, through the lens of mysticism, psychoanalysis, and emotional deconstruction.