Jodie Prenger to star in the UK Tour of ABIGAIL’S PARTY

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Jodie Prenger leads the cast in Abigail’s Party, Mike Leigh’s groundbreaking comedy classic which begins a major UK tour in Brighton on 10 January 2019 and tours until 20 April 2019 in Edinburgh.

Beverly and her husband Laurence are throwing a party for their newlywed neighbours, Tony and Angela. Joining them is highly strung Susan who’s been banished from the party of her teenage daughter Abigail. Welcome to 1970’s suburbia and its heady mix of free-flowing cocktails, classic disco and cheese and pineapple sticks. As tensions rise and tempers flare the sheen of respectability is torn away by the warring couples with hilarious and potentially disastrous consequences.

Mike Leigh’s iconic Abigail’s Party is one of Britain’s most celebrated comedies and was described by The Guardian as ‘One of the greatest plays about the human condition ever written.’

Abigail’s Party was first devised and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh It developed in lengthy improvisations and opened in April 1977 at the Hampstead Theatre. A recording was arranged at the BBC as a Play for Today for the BBC and transmitted in November 1977.

Theatre Royal, Brighton 10 – 19 January 2019
Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham 21 – 26 January 2019
York Grand Opera House 28 January – 2 February 2019
Theatre Royal, Glasgow 4 – 9 February 2019
Nuffield Southampton Theatres 11 – 16 February 2019
Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent 18 – 23 February 2019
New Victoria Theatre, Woking 25 February – 2 March 2019
Royal & Derngate, Northampton 4 – 9 March 2019
Grand Theatre, Blackpool 11 – 16 March 2019
Aylesbury Waterside Theatre 18 – 23 March 2019
Liverpool Playhouse 25 – 30 March 2019
Orchard Theatre, Dartford 1 – 6 April 2019
Manchester Opera House 8 – 13 April 2019
King’s Theatre, Edinburgh 15 – 20 April 2019

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