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Invisible Friends

Full-Length Play  /  3w, 4m

Alan Ayckbourn

"An extremely funny and deeply serious play which appeals to the irrepressible child in every adult and to the insufferable adult in every child." - London Sunday Times

"Ingenious and involving." - Daily Telegraph

Invisible Friends

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 4m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Theatre for Young Audiences

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Summary
This delight by England's most successful comic dramatist is about an ordinary teenager named Lucy. Often ignored by her family, she invents a fantasy friend, Zara, and invites her to tea. Zara arrives with her idealized father and brother and explains how Lucy can make her real family disappear. Life becomes a wonderful fantasy until Lucy's dream family turns out to be a nightmare.

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    "An extremely funny and deeply serious play which appeals to the irrepressible child in every adult and to the insufferable adult in every child." - London Sunday Times

    "Ingenious and involving." - Daily Telegraph

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    Alan Ayckbourn

    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 ...

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