5.53pm. Christmas Eve.

Richard and Sally are waiting for their friends and family to join in the festivities – the tree is decorated, the wine is mulling, the presents are wrapped. But beneath this shiny façade, disastrous events from last Christmas have left their mark on the Llewellyn family and attempts to paper over it make for an explosive evening of surprising revelations and dark secrets exposed.

Award-winning writer Rose Heiney’s debut play is a sharp, black comedy with a tender heart that explores the paths we take in life and their repercussions on the people we love most. Her previous television credits include hit shows Miranda, Fresh Meat and Big Bad World.

Tamara Harvey returns to Hampstead Downstairs following last year’s sell-out hitsHello/Goodbye and In The Vale Of Health which transferred to the Main Stage. Her numerous credits include From Here To Eternity, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (both West End) and Breeders (St. James).

Cast: Helen Atkinson-Wood (The Vortex, Rose Theatre Kingston), Adam Buchanan(The Mystae, Hampstead Downstairs), Jonathan Guy Lewis (I Found My Horn, West End), Richard Lintern (Duchess of Malfi, RSC), Bel Powley (Raving, Hampstead Theatre), Imogen Stubbs (Strangers On A Train, West End) and Antonia Thomas(Misfits, Channel 4).