Rules for Living

By Sam Holcroft

Directed by Allison Granat

After surviving the holidays, join us for this hysterical farce and watch how a family gets through their Christmas lunch!

Everyone creates their own coping strategies or “rules for living.” But what happens when an extended family gathers in the kitchen for a traditional Christmas and they each follow those rules, rigidly? As long-held mechanisms for survival are laid bare, even Mum, who's been preparing this lunch since last January, becomes embroiled. Time-honored rivalries and resentments will out. Accusations fly, relationships deconstruct, the rules take over. In Sam Holcroft's theatrically playful, dark comedy the instructions are there for all to see, audience included - so there's really no place to hide.

For example:

Rule #1 Matthew must sit to tell a lie

Rule #2 Carrie must stand to tell a joke

Rule #3 Sheena must drink to contradict

...and so it goes and the mayhem increases. Flying food may be involved.

"Bitingly funny and sharply observed.”— Exeunt Magazine

Produced by special arrangement with Casarotto Ramsay and Associates, Ltd, London