Alan Ayckbourn: Three Plays: ('Absurd Person Singular', 'Absent Friends', 'Bedroom Farce')

Alan Ayckbourn: Three Plays: ('Absurd Person Singular', 'Absent Friends', 'Bedroom Farce')

Alan Ayckbourn: Three Plays: ('Absurd Person Singular', 'Absent Friends', 'Bedroom Farce')

Alan Ayckbourn

Alan Ayckbourn: Three Plays: ('Absurd Person Singular', 'Absent Friends', 'Bedroom Farce')

Alan Ayckbourn: Three Plays: ('Absurd Person Singular', 'Absent Friends', 'Bedroom Farce')

Alan Ayckbourn

Overview

'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny' - "Daily Telegraph". In "Three Plays" Ayckbourn's perfectly pitched dialogue slices into the soul of suburbia. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - but the relationships between the husbands and wives are more complicated. Fraught relationships are exposed with humour, bathos and a sharp understanding of human nature.

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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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