The Snail House: (NHB Modern Plays)

'I saved lives and I got rewarded and I'm bloody well not going to apologise for it.' Sir Neil Marriot had a 'good pandemic', becoming familiar to millions from his TV appearances as a government medical advisor.His service even earned him a knighthood, and he is now rewarding himself with a lavish birthday party. But, amidst the oak panelling, the champagne and the silver service, his family are at one another's throats again, and he thinks there's something familiar - and somehow unsettling - about one of the catering staff... The Snail House is a play about how the past impacts on the present, and how overconfidence can have disastrous consequences.Written and directed by Richard Eyre, it premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in September 2022.