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A Talk in the Park
Short Play, Comedy / 2w, 3m
A short play from Confusions.
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Cast Size
2w, 3m -
Target Audience
Appropriate for All Audiences
Details
Summary
A short play from Confusions depicting five self-immolated characters on park benches. Confusions is actually a set of five interlinked one act plays. Each play deals riotously, but with sharply pointed undertones, with human eccentricities and the human dilemma of loneliness.
Performing Groups
- Time Period Contemporary
- Setting A park with four benches
- Cautions
- No Special Cautions
Media
"Runs the gamut of comic technique from faintly pathetic situation
comedy to outright farce.... Ayckbourn has demonstrated once again that
even in a trivial situation he can hold the attention with his matchless
ear for conversational speech, and in untrivial situations shows
himself a comic writer of immortal quality." - London Financial Times
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £30 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 ...