Assembled Parties

Why book?  Starring Tracy-Ann Obermann ( fabulous in the recent Merchant of Venice 1936) and directed by Blanche McIntyre returns to Hampstead (we loved her Boticelli).  after her productions of Letters from Max, Apex Predator and the record breaking The Invention of Love.

“Imagine “Brideshead Revisited” rewritten and relocated by the young Philip Roth (with assistance from F. Scott Fitzgerald and J. D. Salinger), and you’ll have a sense of the setup of “The Assembled Parties”…” New York Times

“Former movie star Julie Bascov insists on taking Christmas seriously – despite her family’s reminders that that they are in fact Jewish. Every year, she and her impossibly well-heeled husband Ben host a feast in their palatial apartment on Central Park West. In December 1980, their son and his best friend Jeff come down from Harvard to join the party, and Jeff is dazzled by the Bascov clan. But when he returns for the same occasion twenty years later he finds that much that was sown in 1980 has been reaped in the intervening years…

Richard Greenberg’s virtuosic comedy-drama was such a sensation when it played on Broadway in 2013 that it had to be extended three times. Greenberg, familiar for his plays Three Days of Rain and Take Me Out – both Pulitzer nominees – makes his Hampstead debut.”