All About 'Abigail's Party' Page #2

Synopsis: A look at the production of Play for Today: Abigail's Party (1977).
 
IMDB:
7.4
Year:
2007
60 min
3,402 Views


- Thanks.

- Thanks.

- Ta.

- Cheers, everyone.

- Cheers.

- Cheers, Tone.

- Cheers.

- Cheers.

- Darling, are you staying or going?

- I'll stay for a while.

Laurence has to pop out on business,

I'm afraid, so...

Who'd like a cigarette?

Laurence, would you, please? Angela?

- No, thanks.

- Tony, would you like one?

- No, thank you.

- We've just given up.

Oh, yes. Sorry.

- Who'd like some olives?

- Not for me. Ange?

- No, thanks.

- Tony, do you like olives?

- No, I don't.

- Horrible, aren't they?

- Told you nobody would like olives.

- Not "nobody", Beverly.

I like olives.

And that's 25% of the assembled company.

- We've met you before, haven't we?

- Really?

- He IS the one you remember, isn't he?

- Yeah.

Do you remember us?

We came looking for a house.

No, I can't say I do.

Of course, we see a lot of clients.

- We saw a lot of estate agents.

- Yes, we went to all the ones in the area.

We got the house from Spencer's in the end.

- Anthony Spencer.

- Anthony Spencer, yeah.

- He's very nice. Do you know him?

- Yes, I know him.

We were very lucky

because we got the price of the house down

- from 22,000 to 21,000.

- Really, Ange?

Oh, that is fantastic, isn't it? That's really great.

- Is it your first house?

- Yes. We were in a furnished flat before.

- That's a bit grim, isn't it, Ange, furnished flats?

- Yeah.

- Your bed arrived yet, Ange?

- Oh, don't talk about that!

- It's a sore point.

- Is it?

Well, it's funny, really.

I came home today

and saw this big parcel in the hall.

- Yes?

- Then I saw his face and he looked furious!

I thought, "Ooh, what's happened?"

And you know what?

The bed head had arrived and no bed!

No, Ange! Oh, that's disgraceful, isn't it?

- You've been sleeping on the floor, haven't you?

- Yes.

We've got a mattress from Tony's mum's,

but it's not the same.

No.

Well, let's face it, Tone.

You can't do much with a bed head, can you?

- What line of business are you in?

- He's in computers.

- That's funny, my brother's in computers.

- (ANGE) Is he?

- Yes, he's a programs?

- Analyst.

Oh, yes. Tony's just an operator.

Oh. I know it's a fantastic job, though, Tone.

'Cause my brother, Ange,

he had to go to college and get exams.

- And he studied for years, didn't he?

- Yes.

Did you have to do that, Tone,

go to college and all?

- You didn't really, did you?

- No.

- No.

- Hmm.

- These are lovely.

- They are, aren't they? Nice and dainty.

- Nine to five, is it?

- No, there's a lot of variation.

Shift work.

It's a two-weekly system.

One week I work from 8am to 4pm,

then I work from four till midnight,

every other Saturday off.

- Were you off today, Tone?

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