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Author: Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780573627972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA play set in the foreseeable future when everything has changed except human nature; a future where TV daytime soaps are performed by android actors emotionally programmed by the control room. One, JC 31333, finds herself humanized as Jacie Triplethree, complete with a sense of humour and Adam, a young scriptwriter, falls for her.
Author: Michael Holt
Publisher: Writers & Their Work S
Published: 2018-08-17
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 0746312814
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlan Ayckbourn is, after Shakespeare, Britain's most performed playwright and acknowledged as one of its most skilful directors. In 50 years he has written more than seventy plays and directed three times that number emerging as a formidable dramatist of international renown. Dismissed at first as a "mere boulevadier", he is now seen as an outstanding modern comic playwright, exploring themes of social and political importance with a bleak eye and a capacity to construct comedy out of the experience of the middle class audience. This book explores the range of his work which covers light comedy, farce, theatrical cartoon, musicals and plays for children. It defines the early influences and the developing themes, concentrating on Ayckbourn's technical skills and his challenges to Aristotelian unities. It traces the playwright's journey from observer of middle class dilemmas through moral and ethical commentator, and on to his concentration on fantasist behaviour and the nature of long term relationsh
Author: Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780573693779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJack McCraken has the opportunity of a lifetime: he is the new head of a family furniture business and believes he will initiate a new age of honesty and integrity. He quickly learns that everyone else involved in the enterprise has a vested interest in maintaining business as usual, rife with dishonesty and deceit "--
Author: Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2015-04-28
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 1250083087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Crafty Art of Playmaking, this seminal guide from renowned playwright Alan Ayckbourn shares his tricks of the trade. From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing, this book provides a complete primer for the newcomer and a refresher for those with more experience. Written in Ayckbourn's signature style that combines humor, seriousness, and a heady air of sophistication, The Crafty Art of Playmaking is a must-have for aspiring playwrights, students of drama, and anyone who has ever laughed their way through one of Ayckbourn's plays.
Author: Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2014-07-17
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 0571318223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published:
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1410342743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Study Guide for Alan Ayckbourn's "A Chorus of Disapproval," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
Author: Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780573626845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis intricate time traveling comic thriller by the British master of farcical comedy delighted London and New York audiences. A London sex specialist from the future stumbles into a murder plot that sends her, compliments of a unique set of hotel doors, traveling back in time. She and two women who were murdered in 1998 and 1978 race back and forth in time trying to rewrite history and prevent their own violent ends. The frantic race begins when Poopay is hired for an evening at the Regal Hotel by an old man who eschews a fling in favor of confessing his role in the demise of his wives. Now a target, Poopay flees into the vestibule and somehow triggers the time machine. -- Publisher's website.
Author: Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780573617157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In this play, Annie has arranged to spend an illicit weekend with her sister Ruth's husband Norman, and for this reason, suitably disguised, has asked her elder brother Reg and his wife Sarah to look after their widowed mother and the house. As it happens the seduction, thought or planned, by each of the six characters never takes place either"--Publisher's website.
Author: Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780573616709
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher:
Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 70
ISBN-13: 9780573115691
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJustin and Julie-Ann, hopelessly mismatched in love, are about to introduce their respective parents to each other over dinner - Justin's upper-crust alcoholic mother from Surrey and Julie-Ann's bigoted Yorkshire father and prim mother. Into this doomed scenario drops, literally, via the balcony upstairs and the river, Paige Petite, a former lap-dancer with suicidal tendencies and her thick, gun-toting minder who is employed by her violent boyfriend...
