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ALAN AYCKBOURN   (1939 - )


Alan Ayckbourn
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Plays by Alan Ayckbourn

ALAN AYCKBOURN
Absent Friends
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1975
ISBN
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Genre:
Social Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Colin's friends are determined to comfort him in his grief over the death of his fiancée - a girl they have never met. They arrange a tea-party for him and are understandably on edge wondering what to say to him as they await his arrival. Their unease, however, has deeper roots as they are all kept together by a mixture of business and cross-marital emotional ties and by the time Colin arrives their tension contrasts dramatically with his cheerfully relaxed air.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Absurd Person Singular
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1972
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1974
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
We visit three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years: the lower-class Hopcrofts; their bank manager and his wife and their architect neighbour with a suicidal wife. Running like a darker thread through the wild comedy of behind-the-scenes disasters at Christmas parties is the story of the advance of the Hopcrofts and the declines of the others.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Awaking Beauty
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
5
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Words by Alan Ayckbourn, music by Denis King
Synopsis:
tells the familiar story of Sleeping Beauty, otherwise known as the princess Aurora (Alice Fearn), who, on her 18th birthday, pricks her finger and falls asleep for 100 years because of a curse placed on her by her wicked godmother, Carabosse. As in the classic, a handsome prince (Duncan Patrick) arrives to wake her with a kiss. In this instance, however, happy ever after isn't looking quite so assured because Carabosse decides she has also fallen in love. Denis King provides the music for Ayckbourn's lyrics and book.
Lyn Gardner, Guardian
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Backnumbers
1st Produced:
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Backnumbers was a compilation of songs from previous revues by Alan Ayckbourn and Paul Todd. There were two variants of it: Tuesday and Thursday, each with different songs and a different cast.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Bedroom Farce
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
Chatto & Windus, London, 1977
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Three bedrooms are presented simultaneously on stage and the action between three households flows in and out from one to the other during this hectic night. There are Ernest and Delia celebrating an anniversary with pilchards on toast after a disastrous meal out; Malcolm and Kate preparing a house-warming party and Nick and Jan, the former resting his injured back in bed. The marital disasters of Trevor and Susannah weave in out and out of the bedrooms.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Between Mouthfuls
1st Produced:
Mermaid Studio, London
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Between The Lines
1st Produced:
Attic Theatre, Wimbledon
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
2
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by Paul Todd
Synopsis:
Between The Lines was a revue compiled from songs by Alan Ayckbourn and Paul Todd, loosely arranged into a love triangle story. The book was written by Paul Todd and it is to be emphasised that Alan is credited solely as the lyricist for this piece.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Body Language
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 2002
ISBN
-
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Genre:
play for anyone who has body
-
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
extras
Notes:
Body Language was revised by Alan Ayckbourn in 1999.
Synopsis:
Journalist Jo has a problem with her body. She hates the sight of it. The more she eats and drinks to forget it, the more of it there is to remind her. Photographic model Angie has a problem too. People won't stop looking at hers. Women with envy or sometimes open hostility. Men with - well, God knows what the men are thinking. But what if Amd Gie and Jo could choose to change places with each other? And what if they didn't have any choice in the matter?
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Boy Meets Girl
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by Paul Todd
Synopsis:
linked lunch time show
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Boy Who Fell Into A Book
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 2000
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
Written to celebrate The National Year of Reading in 1998.
Synopsis:
A cautionary tale about reading in bed, that's full of laughs, a few scares and a lot of music! When Kevin falls asleep in the middle of an un-put-down-able book, he wakes to find himself in the thick of the action and in considerable danger. How will he ever get home again? The simple solution, of course, is to work his way back along the bookshelf towards his bed. But what other books will he have to pass through to get there? Will they prove equally as challenging? Help. . .!
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
By Jeeves
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
Music:
Original cast recording: MCA (MCF-2726
-
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
By Jeeves was rewritten and revised from Jeeves. The play opened the new Stephen Joseph Theatre and was described by the theatre as: "An almost entirely new musical.". Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Synopsis:
Proudly presenting an evening in the company of that celebrated raconteur, man about town, wit, bon viveur and banjo player extraordinaire, Bertram Wilberforce Wooster, Esq. . .. . .Or so the published programme would have it .But, alas, even men of genius can have their plans thwarted. How can any banjo player, however gifted, begin to pluck a note when some philistine has stolen his instrument, by George? How can he possibly hope to entertain the eager throng until a replacement banjo arrives, by Jove? Is there no one to step in and snatch the charred streaky from the bonfire, by Jeeves? By Jeeves. . .
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Callisto 5
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1995
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
monster
Notes:
rewritten in 1999 as Callisto 7
Synopsis:
For eight years, young Jem has sat in space station Callisto 5, patiently awaiting the return of his parents. Eight years. . . with only Damaris (the robot nanny) and the disembodied voice of Iris (the computer) for company. Eight years of macaroni cheese for breakfast, lunch and supper. . .It's enough to drive a boy crazy - until a new, unexpected, and rather dangerous creature arrives on Callisto
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Callisto 7
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
reworking of Callisto 5
Synopsis:
Thirteen year old Jodi and her nine-year old brother Jem have spent the past five years abandoned on a uniplex on the moon of Callisto. With only the computer IRIS and the malfunctioning PADWAC for company, they have become restless. But they must learn to work together when a monster, invisible except to video, infiltrates the uniplex. Eventually the monster is defeated and revealed to be a game engineered by IRIS. At the same time, the children's parents return having been marooned during a rescue mission to help the other Uniplexes.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Champion Of Paribanou
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Plays 2" Faber, London, 1998
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
An adventure, a love story, a fantasy. . .Murganah loves Ahmed, Ahmed loves Murganah. But he is a royal prince and is destined for a world that can never include a lowly maidservant. This is the story of the two different paths they choose - one right and one wrong. And of their final fateful meeting. . .And of a magic carpet. And of an incredible mechanical man. And of an enchanted cave. And of a meeting with the bookmarker creature. And of a magic apple. And of much, much more. . .
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Cheap And Cheerful
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Music Denis King, Simon Cryer
Synopsis:
Remember revue as it used to be? Dazzling dance routines, glittering costumes, a full chorus with a 20 piece orchestra, witty quickfire sketches, a whirling extravaganza of sound and colour. . .?Well forget all that. Instead, welcome to the real world of modern, low budget, underfunded enjoyment .BUT NEVER FEAR! Fortunately, we have managed to secure the services of The Very Last Actor We Can Afford This Year - entertainer Reg Pittock, fresh from his highly successful holiday camp season at Portsea. Singer, dancer and all round entertainer Reg (plus a few promised special guest friends) will keep you in stitches, humming along with your toes tapping.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Chorus Of Disapproval, A
1st Produced:
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1985
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
7
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Amateur operatic society mirrors Beggar's Opera. British embarrassment in face of emotion.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Christmas v Mastermind
1st Produced:
Victoria Theatre, Stoke on Trent
1962
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Father Christmas faced with a strike by his gnomes. "The most disastrous play I have ever done".
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Comic Potential
1st Produced:
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1999
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
5
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Is comedy humanity's divine gift? Or its own invention, designed to make the rest of life bearable? Either way, could it conceivably be appreciated by a mere machine? And could such laughter ever lead to love? Adam and JCF 31333, star-crossed, mis-matched lovers of the next millennium, face an uncertain future where everything has changed except human nature. Two of the television crew are an "item".
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Communicating Doors
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1995
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Comedy Thriller
Thriller
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
time travel for a sex specialist who stumbles into a murder plot 1978/1998/2014
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Confusions
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
9780713685510
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Genre:
5 Playlets
One Act
Parts:
Male
12
Female
9
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Between Mouthfuls; Drinking Companion; A Talk In The Park; Gosforth's Fete; Mother Figure. Methuen Drama, London >>>
Confusions
Ayckbourn's series of plays for 4-5 actors typify his black comedies of human behaviour. 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 absentee husband attempts seduction without success; in Between Mouthfuls, a waiter oversees a fraught dinner encounter. A garden party gets out of hand in Gosforth's Fete whilst A Talk in the Park is a revue style curtain call piece for the five actors. Whether the comedies concern marital conflict, infidelity or motherhood and take place on a park bench or at a village fete, the characters are familiar and their cries for help instantly recognisable.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Countdown
1st Produced:
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
in Mixed Doubles - An Entertainment On Marriage, Methuen, London, 1970
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Short dialogue
One Act
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Originally presented as one of eight plays under the title "We Who Are About To. . ." at the Hampstead Theatre Club on February 6th 1969, which was subsequently presented as "Mixed Doubles" at the Comedy Theatre, London on April 9th 1969
Synopsis:
Mixed Doubles, 'an entertainment on marriage,' takes the form of eight short plays, each for two characters. . . Each is an independent play in its own right but the whole sequence, linked by a series of wickedly anti-authoritarian monologues written by George Melly adds up to an amusing if acid picture of the progress of married life from honeymoon to cemetry
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Cut In The Rates, A
1st Produced:
Televised
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1991
ISBN
-
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Genre:
TV 1 Act
-
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Dark sinister secrets from an illusionist's past.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Dad's Tale
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1960
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
as Roland Allen
Synopsis:
-
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Damsels In Distress
1st Produced:
Duchess, London
2002
Company:
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough Production
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 2002
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Three Plays
-
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
comprises: Gameplan, Flatspin, Roleplay
Synopsis:
First produced Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough, 2001
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Double Hitch
1st Produced:
1960
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
only ever presented in amateur production
Synopsis:
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Dreams From A Summer House
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1997
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Musical Play
Musical
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by John Pattison
Synopsis:
comic battle of the sexes illustrating the disparity between romantic ideals and earthly reality, proving once again that true love is impossible but also desperately necessary
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Drinking Companion
1st Produced:
Mermaid Studio, London
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Drowning On Dry Land
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
Plays 3, Faber, London, 2004 (Samuel French, London, acting edition, 2006),
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
2g
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Charlie is that modern media phenomenon, an A list celebrity. Mobbed and adored by thousands, his face is everywhere, his name on everything from breakfast cereals to sports gear. He is truly the man who has it all. A beautiful wife, wonderful children, immense wealth and a magnificent home. Everyone is agreed that Charlie Conrad is undoubtedly the man to know and be associated with. What is far more difficult to pin down is what precisely it is that has made Charlie so famous. What has Charlie ever done? Indeed, has he ever done anything? And, in the distorting, mirrored world of celebrity hype, does anyone even care? (Stephen Joseph Theatre brochure copy, Spring 2004)
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Ernie's Incredible Illucinations
1st Produced:
Unicorn Theatre For Children
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
Playbill One, Hutchinsons, London, 1969
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
A one-act play written for schools to produce and published in 1969. It was televised in November 1987
Synopsis:
Twenty quid now? Or a royalty? asked the editor. I chose the royalty. A shrewd decision as it turned out. Though it has meant generations of youngsters (including my own near thirty-year-olds) coming up to me to tell me they once played it at school."
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Family Circles
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1997
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
looking at man's three daughters and their unsuitable husbands, it is difficult to disagree with his pronouncement that we all marry the wrong person
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
First Course
1st Produced:
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Musical Revue
-
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
mixed cast
Notes:
music by Paul Todd
Synopsis:
Ten songs charting impressions of the decades from 1890 to the 1980's
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
FlatSpin
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 2002
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Musical Play
Musical
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of the Damsels In Distress trilogy. Three unconnected plays sharing the same set and cast. Music: Keith Jarrett
Synopsis:
A night of romance in her luxurious riverside apartment with the good looking stranger from next door. How can Joanna possibly go wrong ? Except the flat isn't hers, her name isn't Joanna it's Rosie and heaven knows what the good looking stranger from next door is really after. Nothing is what it seems and Rosie, instead of romance, suddenly finds herself in considerable danger.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Follow The Lover
1st Produced:
1960
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
only ever presented in amateur production
Synopsis:
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Forest, The
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1999
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
7
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Alexander Ostrovsky (Translation: Vera Liber)
Synopsis:
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Game Plan
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 2002
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Musical Play
Musical
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of the Damsels In Distress trilogy. Three unconnected plays sharing the same set and cast. Music: Keith Jarrett
Synopsis:
When Lynette's business collapses and her husband disappears into the blue, she finds herself a single parent with a rapidly dwindling lifestyle. The future looks bleak. But she reckons without teenage daughter Sorrel's last ditch attempts to save them both. But will Sorrel succeed? Or will her desperate 'game plan' plunge them both into greater trouble. . ..?
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Garden (House & Garden)
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Girl Meets Boy
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
mixed cast
Notes:
music by Paul Todd
Synopsis:
linked lunch time show
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Gizmo
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
NTheatre Company, Hull School Of Performing Arts
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Gosforth's Fete
1st Produced:
Mermaid Studio, London
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Haunting Julia
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 2006
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
One Act
Parts:
Male
3
Female
-
Parts Other:
female voice
Notes:
Haunting Julia was intended to be the first play by Ayckbourn for The McCarthy in the new Stephen Joseph Theatre, but delays in the project led it to be staged at the SJTITR in the round. It was later revived for The McCarthy and changed from a one-act to
Synopsis:
Julia has been dead nearly 15 years, a brilliant musician with her whole life ahead of her. Why did she have to die? Was it an accident? Suicide? Or something altogether more sinister? Her father Joe is determined to discover the truth about his daughter's death. Obsessed, he will stop at nothing - even if it means trying to reach Julia herself.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Henceforward . . .
1st Produced:
1987
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1988
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
1g extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Futuristic problems of robots, riots and alienation
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
House (House & Garden)
1st Produced:
1999
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 2000
ISBN
-
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Genre:
2 1 Acts
One Act
Parts:
Male
7
Female
7
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
House and Garden are two plays designed to run simultaneously with the same cast. The cast moving between the House and the Garden. The plays can be seen in any order and, theoretically, one without the other. However, maximum enjoyment of the play comes
Synopsis:
Up at the house, Teddy has dreams of a bright political future as the new local MP. The only problem barring his path is an urgent need to clean his private life before the Prime Minister's special envoy arrives. Unfortunately there can't be many of us with more complex private lives than Teddy's. How can he ever hope to create the right impression when practically nobody's speaking to him and if he can't understand a single word of the few that are? To cap it all, it just has to be the day of the garden fete. Down in the garden, frenzied preparations are underway for the annual village fete. Will the young maypole dancers pull it off? Is there someone sinister lurking in the bushes? Where on Earth are the rest of the Morris team? And just what does go on in the fortune teller's tent? Clouds are a gathering everywhere, in the sky and within personal lives. Old Warn, the gardener, watches all this with casual indifference. He's been through storms before. But, as he later discovers, never one quite like this.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
How The Other Half Loves
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1969
Company:
-
1st Published:
Evans Plays, London, 1971
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Farce
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Two menages project their infidelity onto a third, totally innocent and socially retarded couple.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
If I Were You
1st Produced:
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
His subject here, as so often, is a marriage heading for the rocks. Neglected wife Jill is bored and frumpy; Mal, her bully ofa husband, adores his married daughter and is hated by his schoolboy son. Because he is the manager of a house furnishings store, by a typical Acykbourn device events at work in the bedding, kitchen and lounge departments can be intercut with crises at home in the lounge, kitchen and bedroom. Not that these domestic crises evolve into confrontations during the play's first half, except for Mal's outraged refusal to let young Sam act in a Shakespeare play. No one mentions Mal's not-so- secret affair, or the bruises on daughter Christine's arms, obviously her consequence of resisting her lout of a husband in bed. All this changes after Jill, settling for sleep at the end ofa dreadful day, mutters: "God help us". Because God presumably does and, next morning, she wakes up in Mal's body and he in hers.
Jeremy Kingston, The Times
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Improbable Fiction
1st Produced:
2005
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Returning to his familiar fictional borough of Pendon, Aycjbourn introduces us to the local writers' circle, a self-help group for the creatively stalled and artistically deluded, who meet once a month at the home of Arnold, a genial unmarried gent who dreams of creative endeavours more liberating than the translation of foreign instruction manuals.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Incidental Music
1st Produced:
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
bittersweet human relations. "More experiments, this time with quite hefty narrative songs with a beginning. middle and end. Popular. We did it in the main house and then in the bar." (Alan Ayckbourn, 1989)
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Inside Outside Slide Show, The
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Mrs Grimshaw is trying to give a very serious illustrated lecture on how Edwardians used to live. But her assistant Clyde has different ideas, and not only gets everything wrong, but ends up falling into the slide projector
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Intimate Exchanges
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
in "Vols 1 & 2" French, London, 1985
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Series of 8 scripts
-
Parts:
Male
1
Female
1
Parts Other:
doubling
Notes:
Affairs In A Tent; Events On A Hotel Terrace; A Garden Fete; A Pageant; A Cricket Match; A Game Of Golf; A One Man Protest; Love In The Mist
Synopsis:
Middle class foibles linked as each scene ends.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Invisible Friends
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1991
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Childhood friend materialises but when you get what you want its not what you wanted.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
It Could Be Any One Of Us
1st Produced:
1983
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1998
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Comedy Thriller
Thriller
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
the murderer could be one of three people, the identity of whom can change every night; and the thrills are leavened throughout with tongue-in-cheek humour and slyly ironic comment.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Jeeves
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
10
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, rewritten 1996 as By Jeeves
Synopsis:
Adaptation of P G Wodehouse stories.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Joking Apart
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Chatto & Windus, London, 1979
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Brian's endless list of Anthea substitutes continues over a 12 year span.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Jollies, The
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 2002
ISBN
-
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Genre:
play for all the family.
-
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
I mean, what do you do when you suddenly find out you've got a mother who's younger than you are? And a kid brother who turns out to be 20 years older than you? Tight. You panic. Yes, 11 year old Polly has quite a problem. Now the police are after her as well .Not to mention the social services. And a very, very big dog. . ..Heeeeeelllllp!
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Just Between Ourselves
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1976
Company:
-
1st Published:
Chatto & Windus, London, 1977
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Mans obsessions aggravate wives leading to climax of bizarre madness.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Life and Beth
1st Produced:
2008
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of of "The Things That Go Bump"
Synopsis:
the ghosts that lurk in the dark corners of all our minds. Will recently widowed Beth make it through her first Christmas alone? Even the cat has walked out. The family rally round but her alcoholic sister-in-law, accident prone son and his truculent girlfriend make it hard for her to maintain her welcoming smile. Add in a lovesick vicar and a further unexpected and totally uninvited guest and Beth is in for a Christmas she will never forget.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Living Together
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Chatto & Windus, London, 1975
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
The Norman Conquests, aka Make Yourself At Home
Synopsis:
takes place in the living room
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Love After All
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1959
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Farce
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
as Roland Allen
Synopsis:
Based on Barber of Seville; father wants to marry his daughter to wealth - true love triumphs
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Making Tracks
1st Produced:
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
6
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by Paul Todd
Synopsis:
bittersweet human relations
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Man Of The Moment
1st Produced:
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1990
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Black Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
1g extras
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Ex robber and his timid clerk victim are reunited for TV chat show.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Me, Myself, And I
1st Produced:
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1989
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
1
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by Paul Todd. Me, Myself & I was staged as three connected, but seperate lunchtime shows in Scarborough and as one show in London
Synopsis:
Ayckbourn has always been haunted by the nuclear family's ability to deprive women of emotional, intellectual and even physical fulfilment. Here he wittily embodies that idea by showing 36-year-old Mary Yately first dreaming that she is to be the local paper's mum of the year" and then contrasting that with domestic reality. His deftest touch is to divide Mary into three, so that her frustrated diurnal self is shadowed, and often mocked, by her cool, worldly superego and her ragingly sensual id - an idea that Ayckbourn took even further in 1985 in the surreal, hallucinatory Woman in Mind." The Guardian
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Men On Women On Men
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
short late night revue
One Act
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
mixed cast
Notes:
music by Paul Todd (cassette TSJITR 001, Stephen Joseph Theatre)
Synopsis:
Worries at a variety of facets of the relationship between sexes.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Mere Soup Songs
1st Produced:
1986
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by Paul Todd
Synopsis:
late night cabaret on theme of not telling the truth
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Miss Yesterday
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Tammy is a problem; bottom of her class, constantly in trouble, she's the despair of her teachers and of her wealthy, successful parents. Why can't she be more like her brilliant older brother Glenn? Where did it all go wrong? What on earth will become of her? Fifteen years old and having reached the lowest point in her entire life, even Tammy is beginning to wonder. Then a chance meeting with a stranger appears to change everything. A woman offers Tammy the chance to go back just twenty-four hours to try to put things right. Back to this time yesterday. But can Tammy really alter things? Is it even possible? Can she ever hope to change her life in such a way? And why does the mysterious woman seem curiously familiar? (Copy from Stephen Joseph Theatre Winter Brochure 2004)
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Mother Figure
1st Produced:
Horsham
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1977
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
1
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
in Mixed Blessings
Synopsis:
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays
1st Produced:
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1989
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
6
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Mr Accousticus causes strange things to happen to Suzy and her puppy.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Mr Whatnot
1st Produced:
Stoke on Trent
1963
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1992
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A mute piano player becomes entangled in the life of the Lord of the Manor.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Musical Jigsaw Play, The
1st Produced:
1994
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
My Sister Sadie
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 2003
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Luke and his mother, Avril, eke out their existence tending to their run down, isolated farm in a remote part of England. They both miss Luke's sister June so much and would give anything in the world to have her back with them, alive and well again. But life can be harsh and these days we can rarely hope for miracles. Until one day, the miracle happens. Out of the night sky drops a brand new, full grown, large-as-life sister - the answer to all their prayers. Or is she? For who exactly is Sadie and where did she come from? Is she all she appears to be? And if so, why are so many mysterious people determined to find her? An exciting, funny, tender tale of a family whose lives are changed forever by the strangest of strangers. (Stephen Joseph Theatre brochure winter 2003)
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
My Very Own Story
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1995
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
8
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Do you have a double? They say everybody does - somewhere. Our speaker today, Percy Patton, appears to have not just a double (Peter Patchett), but a treble (Paul Peel)! All with their Very Own Story to tell. Only, alas, when Peter gets into Paul's tale, and Paul appears in Percy's, and Percy gets into Peter's, the whole thing tends to get distinctly perplexing.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Night Before The Morning After Show, The
1st Produced:
New Victoria, North Staffs
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Musical Review
-
Parts:
Male
7
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written by Alan Ayckbourn, Oliver Beamish, Ken Campbell, Bob Eaton, Sayan Kent, John Kirkpatrick, Byrony Lavery, Jenny Lecoat, Chris Martin, Greg Palmer, Carole Ruggier, Peter Whelan and Johnson Willis
Synopsis:
with the programme you get a party pack of paper hats and streamers and the skits continue
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Orvin - Champion of Champions
1st Produced:
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 2003
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Musical
Parts:
Male
12
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written By Alan Ayckbourn and Dennis King
Synopsis:
An epic musical tale of accidental heroism. The chorus of gods sets out to relate the tale of the Great Ulmar, legendary warrior and champion of Sollistis. But their narrative suffers a major technical hitch when Orvin, Ulmar's hopeless squire, oversleeps on the eve of battle. What follows proves a challenge even to such seasoned story tellers as the gods themselves as they vainly attempt to re-write history with only the help of Orvin, the unlikeliest, most reluctant of last minute replacement champions. (Copy from the Stephen Joseph Theatre brochure summer 2004)
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Princess And The Mouse, The
1st Produced:
The McCarthy, Stephen Joseph Theatre
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens 1 Act
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
puppets
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A new adaptation of the famed fairy tale, aimed at children under the age of 8.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Private Fears In Public Places
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
Stephen Joseph Theatre Company
1st Published:
Plays 3, Faber & Faber, London, 2004
ISBN
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Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
My heart used to leap about and sing. It really did. At the thought of seeing you after two - there months. It did what they say it does. It literally leapt. But coming here to meet you today, it sort of sank. I'm sorry. It did. . . Six people, six separate lives - yet all strangely linked by circumstance. Does Nicola still love Dan? Can Stewart be on the verge of an office romance? Will Imogen ever find true love? Does Ambrose have a secret life? And what on earth is Charlotte up to? This latest play by Alan Ayckbourn is a tale of the misheard, the unspoken and the sadly misunderstood. (Stephen Joseph Theatre publicity, 2004) "A tale of the misheard, the unspoken and the sadly misunderstood. . ." (Alan Ayckbourn)
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Relatively Speaking
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1965
Company:
-
1st Published:
Evans Plays, London, 1968
ISBN
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
aka Meet My Father
Synopsis:
Amorous ding-dongs
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Revengers' Comedies, The
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1991
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Black Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
12
Female
11
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Two people meet on London's Albert Bridge at midnight, both prepared to jump off. Henry Bell has just been ousted from his job by a thrusting corporate executive; Karen Knightly has lost her farmer-lover to his scheming rustic wife. They decide that revenge is sweeter than suicide, but it is Karen who declares that she will see to Henry's oppressor if he will take care of hers.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
RolePlay
1st Produced:
2001
Company:
-
1st Published:
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Genre:
Musical Play
Musical
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
part of the Damsels In Distress trilogy. Three unconnected plays sharing the same set and cast. Music: Keith Jarrett
Synopsis:
In their luxurious apartment, Justin Lazenby and Julie-Ann Jobson plan an introductory supper for their respective parents. Will the Jobson's, Derek and Dee, meet with the approval of Justin's mother, Arabella - plus whoever it is she plans to bring with her? It's an important occasion and everything needs to be just right. Things seem to be planned down to the last detail. But no one has allowed for the arrival of the desperate Paige Petite who literally drops in from the upstairs flat - hotly pursued by the menacing Micky Rale. . .. . .
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Round And Round The Garden
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Chatto & Windus, London, 1975
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-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
The Norman Conquests
Synopsis:
The Norman Conquests consists of three inter-connected plays set in the garden, living-room and dining room of a house over one weekend. The plays are: Table Manners (play 13); Living Together (play 14); Round and Round the Garden (play 15). Original titles: Fancy Meeting You (Table Manners) Make Yourself At Home (Living Together) TABLE MANNERS: The events of one weekend as seen from the dining room. In which Reg finds food rather scarce despite having it thrown at him by Sarah - Sarah is scandalised by Annie - Annie is disappointed by men in general and Tom in particular - Tom knocks down Norman - Norman's romantic proposals are ruined thanks to Ruth - Ruth loses her patience, her temper and her glasses - and in which everyone has trouble deciding where to sit - LIVING TOGETHER The events of one weekend as seen from the Sitting Room. In which Reg is driven mad by Tom - Tom tells Annie a thing or two - Annie nearly comes to blows with Sarah -Sarah sees a different side of Norman -Norman sorts things out with Ruth -Ruth discovers the charms of a fireside rug - and in which nobody enjoys playing board games - ROUND AND ROUND THE GARDEN The events of one weekend as seen from the Garden. In which Ruth thoroughly confuses Tom - Tom succeeds in asking Annie - Annie gets a glimpse of Norman's pyjamas - Norman tells Sarah stories by moonlight - Sarah disapproves of Reg's outdoor sports -and in which everyone gets to roll in the grass - (Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round brochure copy, summer 1993)
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Season's Greetings
1st Produced:
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1982
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Black Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
On Boxing Day the previous nights fracas is passed off as a drunken romp. But was it?
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Second Helping
1st Produced:
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Musical Revue
-
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
mixed cast
Notes:
music by Paul Todd
Synopsis:
Ten songs about aspects of love.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Service Not Included
1st Produced:
BBC 2
1974
Company:
-
1st Published:
Chatto & Windus, London, 1977
ISBN
-
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Genre:
TV Play
-
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The barman is professionally impervious to revelations at the companies fancy dress dance
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Seven Deadly Virtues, The
1st Produced:
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by Paul Todd
Synopsis:
a hooded look at the virtues
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Sisterly Feelings
1st Produced:
1978
Company:
-
1st Published:
Chatto & Windus, London, 1981
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Sisterly feelings has two acts with two scenes each. There are two alternative scenes for Act I, scene II and Act II, scene I. The decision for which scene is used in Act I is decided by the flip of a coin. The decision for which scene is used in Act II i
Synopsis:
Sisterly choices determined either deliberately or at random
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Small Family Business, A
1st Produced:
1987
Company:
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1987
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
7
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Fraud, deceit and theft uncovered in the business and amongst family
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Snake In The Grass
1st Produced:
2002
Company:
-
1st Published:
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
For Annabel and her sister, Miriam, their sunlit garden is filled with deeply buried childhood memories. But when night begins to fall, is it only the past which comes back to haunt them? Or something infinitely more terrifying?
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Sparrow, The
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1967
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Ed convinces Evie to stay the night, Tony has other ideas, Julia doesn't like it.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Square Cat, The
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1959
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
3
Female
1
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
as Roland Allen
Synopsis:
Mothers infatuation with teenage popstar who eventually finds true love with daughter
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Standing Room Only
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1961
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
as Roland Allen
Synopsis:
A 21st Century traffic jam with family living in bus on Shaftsbury Avenue, London.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Story So Far, The
1st Produced:
1970
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
aka Me Times Me Times Me (1972); aka Family Circles (1978)
Synopsis:
Bringing up baby takes on new meaning for a successful young couple who start living their lives through their baby boy when he is cast in an award-winning commercial - as a girl! Their lives are turned upside down and the spoils of success bring unexpected results in this surprising, twisted comedy. Told in twenty-seven scenes, beginning in the present and spanning ten years, Baby Anger presents a timely discourse on the trend of casting our children in the all-too-bright limelight.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Suburban Strains
1st Produced:
1980
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1982
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Musical Play
Musical
Parts:
Male
4
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by Paul Todd
Synopsis:
Wife's two relationships are presented in filic counterpoint to peripheral advice.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Sugar Daddies
1st Produced:
The Round, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
Plays 3, Faber & Faber, London, 2004
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
When Sasha comes to the aid of Father Christmas, could this prove the start of a beautiful friendship? Or are there dangerous times ahead for her? Is anything quite as it appears? Should she follow her heart or listen to the warnings of her friends? And just exactly who is the one eyed stranger who has mysteriously entered her life? A cautionary comedy of dark intentions. (Copy from Stephen Joseph Theatre Brochure Summer 2003)
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Table Manners
1st Produced:
1973
Company:
-
1st Published:
Chatto & Windus, London, 1975
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
The Norman Conquests, aka Fancy Meeting You
Synopsis:
events around meal times in the dining room.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Taking Steps
1st Produced:
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
Chatto & Windus, London, 1981
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Farce
Parts:
Male
4
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Confusion piles on confusion from putative ghostly whore to a suicide note.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Talk in the Park, A
1st Produced:
Mermaid Studio, London
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Ten Magic Bridges
1st Produced:
The McCarthy, Stephen Joseph Theatre
2003
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
1
Female
-
Parts Other:
puppets & extras
Notes:
A 10 part adventure for children under the age of 8, designed to play a chapter a week
Synopsis:
Once upon a time there was a beautiful princess who went on a great adventure, helped by lots and lots of her friends&
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Ten Times Table
1st Produced:
1977
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1978
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
7
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Committee farcically organise local pageant whilst retaining their personal problems.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Things We Do for Love
1st Produced:
The McCarthy, Scarborough
1997
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1998
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
An ingenious set : the cross-section of a south-west London Victorian terraced house divided into three flats provides the theme of the play
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
This Is Where We Came In
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1995
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Childrens
Youth Audience
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
The group of Players arrive, together with the amazing Kevin on Keyboards, ready to tell their stories. Here they meet young Fred, a complete stranger who at the same time seems curiously familiar. Is he someone from their past? Or could it be their future? None of them, least of all Fred, seems certain. But then their lives and memories are no longer their own. Instead, as we soon discover, they are each controlled by the weird, eccentric, ever-so-elderly Storytellers.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Time And Time Again
1st Produced:
Library Theatre, Scarborough
1971
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1973
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
2
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
Theatrical equivalent of archaeological digs
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Time Of My Life
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1993
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
family skeletons intrude on happy domestic scene: man's unfaithfulness, business recession and failed marriage
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Tons Of Money
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1986
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
6
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
revision of Will Evans & Valentines 1922 production
Synopsis:
Problems over life interest in a fortune.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Trip To Scarborough, A
1st Produced:
1982
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Entertainment
-
Parts:
Male
11
Female
3
Parts Other:
mixed cast
Notes:
Loose adaptation of R B Sheidan
Synopsis:
takes Sheridan as a starting point but sets most of it in the entrance hall to a posh hotel in Scarborough
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Vaudeville
1st Produced:
1988
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Virtual Reality
1st Produced:
The McCarthy, Scarborough
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
6
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
a man leaves his wife to move in with his lover, who is an actress, but soon he is not the only one questioning how he's performing his new role
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Way Upstream
1st Produced:
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1983
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Black Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
3
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
A boating holiday with events not going as smoothly as anticipated
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
We Who Are About To . . .
1st Produced:
-
1981
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
-
Parts:
Male
-
Female
-
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
written with Bowen, Campton, Owen, Saunders
Synopsis:
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Westwoods, The
1st Produced:
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Revue
Show
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by Paul Todd
Synopsis:
four stages in the life of Patricia Westwood
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Whenever
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 2002
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Musical Play
Musical
Parts:
Male
5
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by Dennis King
Synopsis:
In 1886, nine-year-old orphan Emily Bonny, fleeing for her life, climbs aboard her uncle's amazing new time machine. Her journey is to take her to the end of time itself and in the process change not only her life but all our lives forever!
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Wildest Dreams
1st Produced:
1991
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1993
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Comedy
Parts:
Male
4
Female
4
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
-
Synopsis:
four typical Ayckbourn misfits are playing Dungeons and Dragons type game in a suburban living room, but the game is more than a game
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Wolf At The Door
1st Produced:
1989
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1993
ISBN
-
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Genre:
-
Adaptation
Parts:
Male
13
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
Original Playwright - Henry Becque; translated by David Walker
Synopsis:
Period 19C, death of father plunges family into economic turmoil with all sorts of characters 'helping' to sort out the complicated estate
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Woman In Mind
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1986
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Black Comedy
Comedy
Parts:
Male
5
Female
3
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
subtitled Summer Bee
Synopsis:
Woman finally breaks down in a nightmarish involving her real and imaginary families.
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ALAN AYCKBOURN
Word From Our Sponser
1st Produced:
1995
Company:
-
1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1998
ISBN
-
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Genre:
Musical Play
Musical
Parts:
Male
4
Female
5
Parts Other:
-
Notes:
music by John Patterson
Synopsis:
The Rev Harry Wooller has a dream. To stage a musical version of a long-neglected local mystery play right there in his town's defunct railway station:
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