Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings takes a seriously entertaining look at the misery and high jinks of an average family Christmas.

Cheating at snakes and ladders, fighting over comic books, a bungled infidelity beneath the tree: Christmas has arrived in the Bunker household along with family and friends. But as the children lurk just out of sight, it’s the adults who are letting the side down.

Presiding over the festivities are two warring uncles, one a kindly incompetent doctor with an interminable puppet show to perform; the other a bullying, retired security guard who dominates the TV, brings toy guns for his nieces and determines there’s a theif in their midst.

Season’s Greetings is brought to life by a cast that includes The League Of Gentlemen’s Mark Gatiss, Laurence Olivier Award-winner Jenna Russell, comic actress Catherine Tate, Spooks’s Nicola Walker, along with West End regulars David Troughton and Neil Stuke.