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RolePlay
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 3m
RolePlay
by Alan Ayckbourn
Justin and Julie-Ann, hopelessly mismatched in love, are about to introduce their respective parents to each other over dinner - Justin's upper-crust alcoholic mother from Surrey and Julie-Ann's bigoted Yorkshire father and prim mother.
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Cast Size
4w, 3m
Accolades
- Nominee: 2003 Olivier Award for Best Comedy
Details
Summary
Justin and Julie-Ann, hopelessly mismatched in love, are about to introduce their respective parents to each other over dinner - Justin's upper-crust alcoholic mother from Surrey and Julie-Ann's bigoted Yorkshire father and prim mother. Into this doomed scenario drops, literally, via the balcony upstairs and the river, Paige Petite, a former lap-dancer with suicidal tendencies and her thick, gun-toting minder who is employed by her violent boyfriend ...
- Time Period Contemporary
- Setting An apartment
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
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Authors
Alan Ayckbourn
A playwright and theatre director, to date Alan Ayckbourn has written 89 plays – Family Album attracted four-star reviews when it premiered in September 2022 at the Stephen Joseph, where nearly all his plays are first staged.
However, this year he will stage his 88th play Welc ...