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Family Album (Ayckbourn)

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  4w, 3m

Alan Ayckbourn’s new play tenderly chronicles the trials, tribulations and temptations of three generations of one family across 70 years in the same home.

Family Album (Ayckbourn)

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 3m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for All Audiences

Details

Summary

“Now we’re leaving… all the skeletons are suddenly jumping out of their cupboards.”

A moving-in day, 1952.
A birthday party, 1992.
A moving-out day, 2022.

Join RAF veteran John and housewife Peggy as they proudly move into the first home they can really call their own; daughter Sandra, frantically negotiating the challenges of a 10-year-old’s birthday party without her AWOL husband; and granddaughter Alison, finally escaping the house she has somewhat unwillingly inherited.

Alan Ayckbourn’s new play tenderly chronicles the trials, tribulations and temptations of three generations of one family across 70 years in the same home.

  • Time Period Contemporary, 1950s

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 ...

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