Justin Lazenby and Julie-Ann Jobson are newly engaged, living happily in Justin’s apartment in the London Docklands area.  And they have decided to throw a dinner party so that they can meet each other’s parents, and the parents can meet each other.  What could go wrong?  Well, when the playwright is Britcom master Alan Ayckbourn, everything is likely to go wrong, quickly and hilariously, and it does.

Julie-Ann is having something of a meltdown over the party, insisting that every detail be perfect.  It’s March, and the weather is not cooperating—there’s a fairly intense wind-and-rain event in progress.  The parents are late.  The absence of one pudding fork sends a panicky Julie-Ann out in search of a replacement.  And then Paige literally drops onto Justin’s balcony.  A former exotic dancer, she’s decided to try to escape from her mobster boyfriend, and she’s barely missed falling into the Thames.  And she’s followed, shortly, by her ex-boxer bodyguard Micky, who refuses to leave.  When Julie-Ann’s very conservative parents arrive, followed by Justin’s rather inebriated mother, the stage is set for the dinner party from hell—and a riotous evening in the theatre for audiences.