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Full-Length Play, Comedy / 2w, 3m
This set of five interlinked one-act comedies deals riotously – but with sharply pointed undertones – with human eccentricities and the universal dilemma of loneliness.
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Cast Size
2w, 3m -
Suggested Use
- Cutting Approved for Competition
Details
Summary
Media
“Buoyant... sad, sharp and funny.” – The Guardian
“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.” – Financial Times
Videos
Alan Ayckbourn on Growing As a Dramatist
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Alan Ayckbourn on Comparisons
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Alan Ayckbourn on How to Approach His Plays
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Alan Ayckbourn on Getting Started
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Alan Ayckbourn on the Difference Between Then and Now
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Alan Ayckbourn on Ideas
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Alan Ayckbourn on Writing a Well Made Play
Licensing & Materials
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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 ...