Two nations divided by a single language, brought together by holy matrimony. 

It is the morning of their children’s wedding and British dad Monty is hosting American dad Pete and his family. Everyone else has gone to the church for the rehearsal but they’ve been left behind to put up a gazebo in the garden. Communication proves challenging and not just because the instructions are in Chinese.

Can these headstrong men from opposite sides of the pond forge an alliance long enough to set up for the wedding or will the thin veneer of international détente collapse with the first gust of wind?

★★★★ "Delightful! Humorous but also moving. It is well worth seeing!" – North West End UK

"A quietly moving piece about two men getting to know each other"
"Well structured, has two fine performances and you will learn how to construct a (wonky) gazebo by the end of it." – The Chiswick Calendar

"A simple story...It is funny, but ultimately as we find out more about the two men, their lifestyles and secrets, it becomes very much a buddy story…genuinely very moving." – Chiswick W4

"A welcome romp from reality!" – Green Room Reviews

"A comedy of manners...likeable, amiable cross-cultural, cross-class comedy...thoroughly enjoyable misunderstandings of language, physicality and cultural norms"
"There’s a warmth between the two actors that makes this work, Marriott’s initial stiffness softening as he realises that there’s more to this change to his traditional ways than he’d thought, Dykstra’s kindness and amusement at the ramrod-backed Englishman moving into genuine concern for the Colonel’s worries about his daughter, paying from his straitened resources for the wedding (as a ‘traditional’ father of the bride must) and his health." – London Pub Theatres Magazine