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Abigail's Party

A rather excellent chamber piece with the oxygen slowly draining out... Grotesque and pithy by turns it’s a frequently uncomfortable riff on some favourite British topics: status, gender and class, albeit sweetened by Steadman’s hulking hostess. Technically rudimentary, but at least the dialogue and interplay aren’t lost in a swirl of showy camera moves. As ever though with Leigh there's a whiff of inverted snobbery.