woZZon Review: David Armand (Sorry I’ve Got No Head, Fast and Loose, How Not To Live Your Life, Pulling), Elizabeth Berrington (technology teacher Ruby Fry in Waterloo Road), Katherine Parkinson (Jen in the The IT Crowd), Steffan Rhodri (Dave Coaches in Gavin and Stacey), Reece Shearsmith (a quarter of comedy team The League of Gentlemen and co-creator and writer of the Psychoville) and Kara Tointon (Dawn Swann in EastEnders, Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion at the Garrick Theatre, alongside Rupert Everett) star in Alan Ayckbourn’s classic comedy of manners and social embarrassment, Absent Friends. When Colin loses his fiancée, his married friends invite him round for comfort over tea and sandwiches. As the tea starts to pour, it's clear that trouble is brewing with a wickedly funny blend of jealousy, infidelity and barely concealed loathing. Tension starts to boil and maybe Colin isn’t the one who needs help… with friends like these, who needs enemies? Absent Friends premiered in 1974 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre and received its London premier a year later at the Garrick Theatre. Producer Sonia Friedman has previously staged Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests which, following its sell-out run at the Old Vic, transferred triumphantly to Broadway in 2009.