Absent Friends

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Thursday, 26 January 2012 - Saturday, 14 April 2012
Times : 14:30 - 17:00 19:30 - 22:00

The Harold Pinter Theatre, Panton Street, Piccadilly, SW1Y 4DN

Theatre: , Comedy, West End

How Much: £65.00 (Highest Price) , £15.00 (Lowest Price)
Colin's fiancé has recently drowned and what better way is there to cheer him up than to throw a party for him and invite his old friends? Except the group of friends are hardly the most cheery bunch, what with the not-so-secret affair, the children that are away, the children that refuse to be conceived and the comments on the unsatisfactory sex, the evening might not run so smoothly.
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