CAMBRIDGE PREVIEW: 28 July 2011, 7:45pm
ADC Theatre, Park Street

EDINBURGH PREVIEWS: 6-7 August, 5.45pm
PERFORMANCES: 18-29 August, 3.05pm
Paradise at St Augustines, George IV Bridge

There are only two things that can bring a dinner party to complete silence. One is the dinging of a crystal wine glass. The other is a gunshot.
And Lucy can't decide which to use.

Bridesmaids and guns. Champagne, goats and corpse-dancing. To Have and to Hold, a biting new comedy by Joey Batey, was shortlisted for Cambridge Footlights Harry Porter Prize and tells the story of Lucy, a cynical and bored twenty-something-year-old, as she watches her best friend’s wedding turn into the most bizarre evening of her life.

The play begins at the wedding reception. Lucy meets Tristan, a dry, witty and charming young graphic-designer, and instantly falls for him.

Amidst dodging A Strange Man, elderly waiters and a goat somewhere along the line, Lucy and Tristan find themselves hiding from a veritable catalogue of strange characters: her bumbling ‘Uncle Racist’; her well-meaning yet terribly apathetic father; her awkward, slightly suicidal gun-wielding ex-boyfriend Sam; and thirteen-year-old Clara (who insists there must be a paedophile lurking around the place...).

Cambridge University’s finest actors bring you an hour of unbridled hilarity with an ensemble of the oddest wedding guests you could find. Sit back, relax, have a glass of bubbly, and let your hair down. This is about to get very awkward.