Roles
There are five characters who all have secrets and pain in their past.
MAGGIE (60+)
A headstrong, narcissistic, matriarch who seems to have passed down more of her flaws than her strengths to her 2 children. Maggie hosts the annual Christmas Eve party and we see the relationships within the house develop over 3 of these parties. Maggie likes things her way and has a tendency to snoop on her Children and interfere. This isn’t always with the best of intentions for her Children but for herself.
DAVINA (40+)
Maggie’s daughter and a parent herself, Davina is pulled from pillar to post by her own daughter, several love interests, her love of possessions, a demanding job and whatever her latest fad is. Davina and Maggie often butt heads and this makes for a Christmas full of friction more often than not.
BEN (35+)
Maggie’s son, a “wannabe” of lots of things who achieves very little. Brow beaten by his mother he finds solstice in the tiny petty wins he gets over his sister. A lonely man who does as he is told most of the time without really being challenged.
GRACE (20+)
A mostly reserved young woman who has little desire to get involved in the family drama, although like everyone else in close proximity to Maggie she ends up being a part of it. We see her move from pregnant to a young mother who is possibly struggling with post-natal depression.
PETER (50+)
The family GP - a bright charming man who holds more than the family medical history in his past. A man who seems to have put his own desires before the well being of others.
