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  • Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce

    by Alan Ayckbourn ...
    'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny'Daily TelegraphIn 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Crafty Art of Playmaking

    by Alan Ayckbourn ...
    With over sixty plays written and premièred at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough before going on to play in the West End or the Royal National Theatre, London, or Broadway, Alan Ayckbourn's expertise in writing and directing plays is unsurpassed.For the first time, here in The Crafty Art of Playmaking, he shares all his tricks of the trade. From helpful hints on writing (Where do you start ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Alan Ayckbourn Plays 5

    Snake in the Grass; If I Were You; Life and Beth; My Wonderful Day; Life of Riley

    by Alan Ayckbourn ...
    Snake in the GrassA terrific piece - brilliant, bizarre and yet totally believable . . . In fact, it's more than classic; it's close to the top of its class. Yorkshire PostIf I Were YouA blissfully funny comedy that's also filled with sadness, a devilishly simple theatrical idea that spins out all kinds of complex truths about human nature. Daily TelegraphLife and BethA wise, humane, ... ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 6

    Time of My Life; Neighbourhood Watch; Arrivals and Departures; Hero's Welcome; A Brief History of Women

    by Alan Ayckbourn ...
    With an Introduction by the author.'The prolific master of suburban mayhem has still got his mojo.'Evening StandardTime of My Life'One of Mr. Ayckbourn's most virtuosic experiments in postmodern narrative.'Wall Street JournalNeighbourhood Watch'Ayckbourn's tartly topical, pitch-black comedy, a startling evocation of the panic induced by nightmarish notions of "broken Britain"... An arresting, ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Confusions

    by Alan Ayckbourn ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    Confusions, a series of plays for four-to-five actors, typifies Alan Ayckbourn's particular brand of black comedy on human behaviour. The plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical, but underlying each is the echoing problem of profound loneliness.From a devoted and isolated mother, to her unfaithful travelling salesman husband, through a solicitous waiter to well-heeled diners and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1

    by Alan Ayckbourn ...
    The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of the Moment. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Alan Ayckbourn Plays 4

    by Alan Ayckbourn ...
    The Revengers' ComediesA hugely entertaining pitch that recalls the old movies to which it frequently pays homage - Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Kind Hearts and Coronets - and expands after intermission to reveal an immensely disturbing vision of contemporary middle-class England poisoned by the rise of economic ruthlessness and the collapse of ethics. New York TimesThings We Do for LoveLloyds.. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Alan Ayckbourn Plays 2

    Ernie's Incredible Illucinations; Invisible Friends; This is Where We Came In; My Very Own Story; The Champion of Paribanou

    by Alan Ayckbourn ...
    A treat to read and a joy to perform, this second collection of Alan Ayckbourn's work is a cornucopia of some of his wonderfully inventive children's plays. From the story of the teenage Lucy in Invisible Friends who revives her childhood imaginary friend when things get difficult at home, onto the storytellers in My Very Own Story and This Is Where We Came In and, finally, to young Ernie who ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Alan Ayckbourn Plays 3

    Haunting Julia; Sugar Daddies; Drowning on Dry Land; Private Fears in Public Places

    by Alan Ayckbourn ...
    This third volume of Alan Ayckbourn plays includes Haunting Julia, Sugar Daddies, Drowning on Dry Land and Private Fears in Public Places, with an introduction by the author.Haunting Julia'A play for today. It touches on the failures of education and parenting, on media pressure and overdoses. Kurt Cobain comes to mind. More universally, Haunting Julia mourns how in adolescence and adulthood, we ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Small Family Business

    by Alan Ayckbourn ...
    Well, that's one down, isn't it. Nine to go. Next! Thou shalt not kill. What about that then? Let's have a crack at that one next, shall we?Jack McCracken: a man of principle in a corrupt world. But not for long. Moments after taking over his father-in-law's business he's approached by a private detective armed with some compromising information.Jack's integrity fades away as he discovers his ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Confusions

    by Alan Ayckbourn ...
    Series series Student Editions
    A student edition of five one-act plays by Britain's most popular playwright.Ayckbourn's series of plays for 4-5 actors typify his black comedies of human behaviour. First produced in 1976, the plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical, but underlying each is the problem of loneliness. The Mother Figure shows a mother unable to escape from baby talk; in The Drinking Companion an ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Season's Greetings

    by Alan Ayckbourn ...
    Now we don't want to start Christmas like this, do we?Cheating at snakes and ladders, fighting over comic books, a bungled infidelity beneath the tree. Christmas has arrived in the Bunker household along with family and friends. But as the children lurk just out of sight, it's the adults who are letting the side down.I couldn't. Not in our sitting-room. Not in front of the television. Somewhere ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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