Commentary On The Play Season's Greeting

Recently I attended The Broward college production of the play Season's Greeting, the play takes place on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day. I was very skeptical going in because I was not sure if I would be walking in on a tacky Christmas play or an Alan Ayckbourn's British comedy. They had a proscenium stage with, extended Apron which very disappointed me because it was extremely small, I sat in the center of the third row and the aesthetic distance between me and the performers were close but never to the point where I was not able to see every aspect of the play.
What Is Being Attempted?
Alan Ayckbourn is an English playwright which explains why the play was presented in the British accent. It's a British comedy about a traditional
The basic structure of Season's greetings is Climactic, the scenes and characters were very limited, and the exposition was not presented until very late in the play. For instance, Belinda expresses the trouble in her marriage with Neville, Pattie is unhappy and worries that Eddie doesn't want to father another child with her, Bernard is worried about his puppet show, Clive comes along and there is an instant spark between him and Belinda, they attempt to have sex, Rachel has to deal with the fact that Clive is interested in her sister, uncle Harvey mistakenly shoots Clive. Everything is squeezed into 3 scenes. The exposition gets revealed throughout the actual plot, as each character reach their breaking point. The Protagonist Belinda played by Liza Honorat was very well presented, from her bouncy pin curled, light brown wig and bright red lipstick to her modern day suburban housewife wardrobe and fine pearls, you can tell that she stood out from the other
First off, Set designer was limited when it came to the amount of space available on the stage, which is understood but they were things that could have been presented differently for instance, they were no real doors, the walls were cut off, one small lamp was presented but the spotlight over the dining table did not appear to come from a natural source, also an unknown blue light seemed to be coming from the small window to the left of the stage, which would be the faults of the lighting designer. Although the lighting designer did find rhythm between the change of scene to scene, the lights would slowly fade. The lights weren't too bright; the intensity was controlled. The lighting designer often used blue lights to signify late nights and early