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 Welcome to the Family, at The Old Laundry Theatre, Bowness-upon-Windermere, before premiering his 89th play, Constant Companions, at the SJT.
Before the pandemic his other work, having won countless awards, could be seen on stage and television throughout the world, so it was good news when this year Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present was staged in Germany to a terrific response.
Relatively Speaking, How The Other Half Loves, The Norman Conquests, Season's Greetings, A Chorus of Disapproval, Absurd Person Singular and Woman in Mind were all recently revived to great acclaim.
In New York, his biennial visits with the SJT company performing his plays for the Brits off Broadway Festival at 59E59 Theatres regularly received an enthusiastic reception. Sadly, Covid has meant there has been no recent return visit to the festival.
He wrote a best-selling guide to writing and directing, The Crafty Art of Playmaking. This is still in print. His first “novel,” The Divide, was published in 2019.
Inducted into American Theatre's Hall of Fame, a recipient of the Critics' Circle Award for Services to the Arts, he became the first British playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards. He was knighted in 1997 for services to the theatre.
Source: Alan Ayckbourn's official website www.alanayckbourn.net.
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Neighbourhood Watch (Ayckbourn)
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Neighbourhood Watch (Ayckbourn)
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 4m
"This timely and provocative play rivets attention throughout. There are some blissful comic moments and even that staple of Ayckbourn’s dramatic world, an ornamental garden gnome, has a crucial part to play." Charles Spencer, Telegraph
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Family Circles
Alan Ayckbourn
Full-Length Play, ComedyFamily Circles
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 4m
Looking at Edward Gray's three daughters and their unsuitable husbands, it is difficult to disagree with his pronouncement that we all marry the wrong person. It is also impossible not to laugh at the results hilariously portrayed in this early play by the master of English comedy that is being published for the first time.
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A Chorus of Disapproval
Alan Ayckbourn
Full-Length Play, Dramatic ComedyA Chorus of Disapproval
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 6w, 7m
"A brilliance and invention remarkable even by his standards." - Financial Times
"Symmetrically shaped, psychologically acute and painfully, heart breakingly funny." - The Guardian
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Callisto 5
Alan Ayckbourn
Full-Length Play, Dramatic ComedyCallisto 5
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1w, 2m
Eight years of macaroni and 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 5.
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Neighbourhood Watch (Ayckbourn)
Alan Ayckbourn
Full-Length Play, Dramatic ComedyNeighbourhood Watch (Ayckbourn)
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 4w, 4m
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Family Circles
Alan Ayckbourn
Full-Length Play, ComedyFamily Circles
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 4w, 4m
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A Chorus of Disapproval
Alan Ayckbourn
Full-Length Play, Dramatic ComedyA Chorus of Disapproval
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 6w, 7m
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Callisto 5
Alan Ayckbourn
Full-Length Play, Dramatic ComedyCallisto 5
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1w, 2m