Gerry Stratton has organised a small family dinner with his sons Glyn and Adam at his favourite restaurant to celebrate his wife Laura’s 54th birthday. Glyn is with his long-suffering wife Stephanie, and their marriage looks to be on firmer ground than it once was. Adam has brought along his new girlfriend Maureen, an outrageous hairdresser, and they are both eager to impress.

The occasion suggests a happy domestic scene, but gradually we are made aware of family skeletons.

The present opens up to have Glyn’s story move forward in time and Adam’s backwards, while in the centre, Gerry and Laura pick apart their marriage and recall first love.

“Funny, very funny and not at all funny,” a classic Ayckbourn, set in a restaurant with some very comical waiters!