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Absurd Person Singular
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 3m
Absurd Person Singular
by Alan Ayckbourn
Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. Running like a dark thread through the wild comedy of behind the scenes disasters at Christmas parties is the story of the advance of one of the couples to material prosperity and independence and the decline of the others.
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Cast Size
3w, 3m -
Target Audience
Adult, Teen (Age 14-18)
Accolades
- 1973 Evening Standard Best Comedy Award
Details
Summary
Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. The "lower class" but very much up and coming Hopcrofts are in their bright new, gadget filled kitchen anxiously giving a little party for their bank manager and his wife and an architect neighbor. Next there are the architect and his wife in their neglected, untidy flat. Then the bank manager and his wife are in their large, slightly modernized, old Victorian style kitchen. Running like a dark thread through the wild comedy of behind the scenes disasters at Christmas parties is the story of the advance of the Hopcrofts to material prosperity and independence and the decline of the others. In the final stages the little man is well and truly on top, with the others, literally and unnervingly, dancing to his tune.
"Best comedy Britain has sent us in years." - The New York Times- Time Period Contemporary
- Setting Three kitchen'settings
- Cautions
- No Special Cautions
Media
Videos
Alan Ayckbourn on Growing As a Dramatist
Alan Ayckbourn on Comparisons
Alan Ayckbourn on How to Approach His Plays
Alan Ayckbourn on Getting Started
Alan Ayckbourn on the Difference Between Then and Now
Alan Ayckbourn on Ideas
Alan Ayckbourn on Writing a Well Made Play
Licensing & Materials
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