Relatively Speaking

Greg and Ginny are living together, but Greg is becoming somewhat suspicious that he is not the only man in her life. He wonders about Ginny’s plan ‘to visit her parents’ and decides to follow her. Ginny is really going to see a considerably older lover, but only in order to break with him. Greg mistakes the ex-lover and his wife for Ginny’s parents. Ginny’s arrival further compounds an already wildly hilarious situation.

Will Greg marry Philip’s wife? Or his aunt? Or his daughter? Will Ginny tour Europe with her father or her lover? And who writes to Sheila at the weekend? All will be revealed in one of Ayckbourn’s best comedies.

First produced at The Library Theatre, Scarborough in 1965 with its London premiere 2 years later. The play takes place during a summer weekend in the bed-sitting room of Ginny’s London flat and on the garden patio of Sheila and Philip’s home in Buckinghamshire.