<Table> <Tr> <Td> RolePlay (Damsels in Distress) </Td> <Td> The Jollies 2002 </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> RolePlay (Damsels in Distress) </Td> <Td> The Jollies 2002 </Td> </Tr> <P> 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, and in 2008 these two plays, together with new play Life and Beth were folded into a trilogy named Things That Go Bump . </P> <P> Ayckbourn's first "ghost" theme play, Haunting Julia, had a cast of three men, all haunted, in different ways, by the suicide of the daughter of one of the men . Subsequently, Ayckbourn had expressed a wish to write a female counterpart of this play . This was further encouraged by the continuing success of Stephen Mallatratt's adaptation of The Woman in Black (itself a heavy source of inspiration for Haunting Julia). The success of this play, along with Yasmina Reza's' Art' also suggest that small - cast plays were becoming popular in commercial theatre . </P>

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