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It is Christmas and a cockney family are gathered for Christmas dinner: unemployed Dad, his son Martin, Martin’s girlfriend Jenny and his auntie.
However, the bailiffs take all the family’s worldly possessions including their turkey dinner. Faced with the prospect of beef dripping and struggling to cope with their poor Christmas, the family imagine themselves in happier situations: auntie goes shopping; Jenny ice-skates; Martin joins the circus. After the theft of the neighbour’s dinner by Dad, the play concludes with Dad rubbishing auntie’s claims items have been disappearing due to the Tinies. At which point, the fairy-like creatures appear and turn Dad into a budgie who flies away into the night.

Copyright: Simon Murgatroyd 2006

 
     
     
 

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