Overview
Now in paperback, the hugely acclaimed, authorised biography of
Britain's most popular playwright Alan Ayckbourn is Britain's most
popular playwright and its most private. He has won numerous awards for
his plays and has worked with some of theatre's most celebrated names,
yet he spends most of his time away from the limelight in a Yorkshire
seaside town not writing at all but running a small repertory theatre.
This is a portrait of a man who - from Relatively Speaking in 1965 to
his double play House and Garden at the National Theatre in 2000 - has
chronicled human behaviour, our aspirations and insecurities, while
shaping the theatrical experience of millions.