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Garden

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  8w, 6m

Alan Ayckbourn

Garden
by Alan Ayckbourn

Teddy's jilted mistress threatens suicide as a garden fête is prepared. In the original production at Scarborough, and later at the National Theatre, the play was performed in adjacent auditoria simultaneously with Garden.

Garden

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Teddy's jilted mistress threatens suicide as a garden fête is prepared. In the original production at Scarborough, and later at the National Theatre, the play was performed in adjacent auditoria simultaneously with Garden.

Contained in the volume House & Garden

M6 (20, 30s-late 50s-early 60s) F8 (17, 30s-50s). Children (7-8).
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting The garden of Teddy and Trish Platt. 

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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 Welc ...

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