Alan Ayckbourn

• Jan-1979
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his brilliant comic trilogy details the amorous exploits of Norman, assistant librarian, whose one aim is to make the women of his life happy-these women being, as it happens, three sisters, one of them his wife, who can't wear contact lenses because...

• Jan-2012
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• Oct-2013
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Six aspiring authors meet on a winter's evening to discuss their work. Among them are writers of historical romances and children's literature who are finding it difficult to start writing, and a crime writer who can't stop. A creator of extremely co...

• May-2014
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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 tak...

• Jul-2014
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How Ms Poopay Dayseer, a twenty-first century Specialist Sexual Consultant, whilst peddling her 'services' to an elderly hotel room client unexpectedly finds herself running for her life. How her flight through a communicating door brings her face to...

• Jul-2014
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The central character of Alan Ayckbourn's new play is Susan, a parson's wife, 'one of the most moving and devastating that he has created.'Robin Thornber reviewing the first production in Scarborough in the Guardian....

• Aug-2014
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Rockfist Slim's enemies have just plunged him into yet another desperate situation when Kevin has to close his detective book and go to sleep. But his own adventure is only just beginning. Fast-moving, fun and full of special effects, Ayckbourn's...

• Feb-2015
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Murganah loves Ahmed, the Sultan's youngest son, but feeling herself rejected, she invokes the help of dark supernatural forces to regain him. When she finally loses him to another she seeks a terrible revenge. Alan Ayckbourn writes: "For the first t...

• Feb-2015
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Alan Ayckbourn's play is about a very ordinary teenager called Lucy. With her father glued to the cowboys on the telly, her mother preoccupied with neighbourly gossip and her brother enclosed in his ear-phones, no one wants to know about her place in...

• Sep-2019
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The first of Ayckbourns darkly comic masterpieces involves a relentlessly cheerful handyman in a disastrously fractured marriage. Two couples develop an unlikely friendship in this painfully funny portrait of British suburban life.

A L.A. Theatre ...

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Part of the delightful comic trilogy from one of England's most popular playwrights, The Norman Conquests revolves around a lascivious librarian with designs on three different women, all family members. This first "battle" takes place in the dining ...