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''Season's Greetings'' is a 1980 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It is a black, though often farcical, comedy about a dysfunctional family Christmas, set over Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day in an average English suburban house. ==Characters== The characters seen on stage are the nine adults present in the house. All of the children present in the house are off-stage characters, although a few productions have been known to use child actors.〔(Background on Ayckbourn website )〕 The nine adults are: * Bernard, a feeble-spirited doctor, with strong views on non-violence and obsessed with a dismal puppet show for the children; * Phyllis, Bernard's lush of a wife, whom Bernard struggles to support; * Neville, Phyllis's brother. always busy fiddling with anything mechanical out in his shed; * Belinda, endures a stale marriage to Neville, resorting to flapping about the house and constantly dressing the Christmas tree. * Eddie, a lacklustre and lazy man who tried to strike out on his own but failed, sucks up to his friend Neville for work; * Pattie, Eddie's pregnant wife, largely ignored, and can only nag at him and wish she were not having another child; * Rachel, Belinda's emotionally fuddled sister; * Clive, a writer, in a non-starter of a relationship with Rachel; and * Harvey, Neville and Phyllis's uncle, a cantankerous man who boasts about "thirty years experience" as a security officer, bemoans the collapse of society whilst himself gorging on TV violence, much to Bernard's annoyance. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Season's Greetings (play)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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