Relatively Speaking

In this comedy by Alan Ayckbourn, Greg and Ginny are a young co-habiting couple. When Greg finds a strange pair of slippers under the bed, he is too besotted to believe they might have been left by another man (which would also explain the bunches of flowers and boxes of sweets). Ginny goes off for a day in the country, supposedly to visit her parents but actually to break things off with her older married lover, Philip. Greg follows her and shows up unannounced, before Ginny, at the house Philip shares with his befuddled wife Sheila and wrongly assumes that they are her parents. Greg asks Philip for her hand in marriage, and Philip mistakenly believes that the strange young man is asking permission to marry Sheila. Once Ginny arrives, she convinces Philip to play the role of her father. Meanwhile, Greg still believes that Sheila is Ginny's mother and the situation becomes increasingly confused.