Essex, 1977. Beverly is hosting, the alcohol is flowing, Demis Roussos is on the record player and the cheese and pineapple cocktail sticks are ready to go. Queen of the castle in her suburban semi, ...

Beverly, the queen of suburbia, is hosting a cocktail party. Next door, 15-year-old Abigail is throwing a party of her own. No one can stop talking about Abigail’s Party. No one can stop thinking ...

Pictures have been released of Amanda Abbington in Theatre Royal Bath's 40th anniversary production of Abigail's Party. The production is currently on a UK tour and opens officially in Oxford in April ...

The Seventies were a time for cheesy pineapple, bellbottom jeans, Elton John, and ABBA. Mike Leigh captured the pre-Thatcher English middle class in a darkly comic picture that turns out to be an ...

Tupele Dorgu smiles at the thought of being a guest at the kind of soirée which is at the centre of Abigail’s Party. “It’s not the kind of party I’d want to be at,” she admits. “At the beginning ...

Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party has long been a cult-classic, its biting satire of suburban life immortalized in the 1977 BBC Play for Today starring Alison Steadman. With the recent production at ...

"We all know a Beverley," said Nancy Durrant in The Times. The "magnificent monster" at the heart of Mike Leigh's "savage 1970s satire of the aspirational middle classes" has "never gone away". More ...

To the inevitable delight of many, national treasure Alison Steadman will be releasing her memoir early next month – and will be further in the public eye as the build-up begins to the final ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. "We all know a Beverley," said Nancy Durrant in The Times. The "magnificent monster" at the heart ...