King’s Head theatre, London
A dysfunctional brood gather at a wedding-cum-funeral in actor-writer Rosie Day’s dark comedy

A wedding is repurposed into a funeral in writer-actor Rosie Day’s dark comedy. It might be a twisted spin on Richard Curtis’s Four Weddings and a Funeral except the focus is not on a happy family of friends but on the dysfunctional Henderson brood.

Eric Henderson, a less than perfect father, dies just before he can tie the knot with his third wife, leaving his children, his ex and the arriving guests in a room filled with bows and balloons.

At King’s Head theatre, London, until 27 April

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