By: Tim Firth

The hilarious and touching comedy of Christmas misunderstandings by the writer of Calendar Girls - all about what happens when you're not playing Mary.

The same actors play both children and their uncannily similar parents, as we join the infants class at Flint Street School preparing for their first nativity performance. The Virgin Mary has a fierce competitor in the spiteful angel Gabriel, Wise Man Frankincense is verbally challenged by a lisp, Herod rages like a footballer brutally brought down mid-match and the Innkeeper behaves like a psychopath. To crown it all, baby Jesus' head has fallen off. Fretting about their offspring's impending public performance, the adults row, rage and obsess just like their children, to hilarious effect. Whilst the clothes may change, the foibles are all too similar...!

An uplifting, fast-paced comedy which reminds us that, even as adults, we're never too far away from being children. Joyful, daft, and deeply Christmassy, this is a heartwarmingly funny play. Based on Tim Firth's own hit TV comedy, which starred Jane Horrocks, Stephen Tompkinson, Neil Morrissey and Josie Lawrence.

Hull Truck's grown-up seasonal treat is perfect for adults - and the child in all of us.