Former movie star Julie Bascov insists on taking Christmas seriously - despite her family’s reminders that that they are in fact Jewish. Every year, she and her impossibly well-heeled husband Ben host a feast in their palatial apartment on Central Park West. In December 1980, their son and his best friend Jeff come down from Harvard to join the party, and Jeff is dazzled by the Bascov clan. But when he returns for the same occasion twenty years later he finds that much that was sown in 1980 has been reaped in the intervening years…
Richard Greenberg’s virtuosic comedy-drama was such a sensation when it played on Broadway in 2013 that it had to be extended three times. Greenberg, familiar for his plays Three Days of Rain and Take Me Out - both Pulitzer nominees - makes his Hampstead debut.
Blanche McIntyre returns to Hampstead after her productions of Letters from Max, Apex Predator and the record breaking The Invention of Love.
Tracy-Ann Oberman returns to Hampstead following sell-out successes Old Money and Godchild. Her recent theatre credits include The Merchant of Venice 1936 (RSC, West End, UK Tour), Mother of Him (Park Theatre) and Present Laughter (Chichester Festival Theatre). Television credits include Friday Night Dinner, Afterlife, It's A Sin and EastEnders.
"Imagine “Brideshead Revisited” rewritten and relocated by the young Philip Roth (with assistance from F. Scott Fitzgerald and J. D. Salinger), and you’ll have a sense of the setup of “The Assembled Parties”…" New York Times
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Plays, Off West End
Ages 14+.
17th October, 2025
22nd November, 2025
The production includes depictions of drug misuse and references to death and death related to AIDS.
By: Richard Greenberg
Director: Blanche McIntyre
Cast list: Tracy-Ann Oberman
Location: Fringe/Off West End
Bus numbers: 46, 113, 187, 268, 603
Night bus numbers: N113
Day of week | Evening |
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Monday | 7:30 PM |
Tuesday | 7:30 PM |
Wednesday | 7:30 PM |
Thursday | - |
Friday | 7:30 PM |
Saturday | 7:30 PM |
Sunday | - |
Former movie star Julie Bascov insists on taking Christmas seriously - despite her family’s reminders that that they are in fact Jewish. Every year, she and her impossibly well-heeled husband Ben host a feast in their palatial apartment on Central Park West. In December 1980, their son and his best friend Jeff come down from Harvard to join the party, and Jeff is dazzled by the Bascov clan. But when he returns for the same occasion twenty years later he finds that much that was sown in 1980 has been reaped in the intervening years…
Hampstead Theatre.
The price for tickets to The Assembled Parties starts at £32.
Ages 14+.
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