Snake in the Grass (play)

Snake in the Grass
Written by	Alan Ayckbourn
Characters	Annabel Chester Miriam Chester Alice Moody
Date premiered	5 June 2002
Place premiered	Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
Original language	English
Series	Things That Go Bump
Subject	Ghosts, child abuse, domestic violence
Genre	Black Comedy
Setting	The garden of Chesters' house
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Ayckbourn chronology
RolePlay (Damsels in Distress) 2001 The Jollies 2002

Snake in the Grass is a 2002 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The play is about a middle-aged older sister who returns to the family home where her younger sister still lives, shortly after their abusive father's death. It was written as a female companion piece to the 1994 ghost play Haunting Julia,^[1] and in 2008 these two plays, together with new play Life and Beth were folded into a trilogy named Things That Go Bump.