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Book Synopsis The Crafty Art of Playmaking by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book The Crafty Art of Playmaking written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.
Download or read book Comic Potential written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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.
Book Synopsis A Small Family Business by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book A Small Family Business written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack 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 "--
Download or read book Alan Ayckbourn written by Michael Holt and published by Writers & Their Work S. This book was released on 2018-08-17 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan 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
Download or read book Woman in Mind written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Alan Ayckbourn Plays 4 by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book Alan Ayckbourn Plays 4 written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revengers' Comedies A hugely entertaining pitch that recalls the old movies to which it frequently pays homage - Strangers on a Train, Rebecca, Kind Hearts and Coronets - and expands after intermission to reveal an immensely disturbing vision of contemporary middle-class England poisoned by the rise of economic ruthlessness and the collapse of ethics. New York Times Things We Do for Love Lloyds Private Banking Playwright of the Year Award One of his best, his most shockingly and uproariously funny: a cruel and hilarious masterpiece of tragic comedy and comic tragedy. Sunday Times House & Garden The triumph of his ingenuity lies in the fact that you have to see both plays . . . A second time round, in whichever order you take them, characters will deepen, while those you know become the background. It is a superb Ayckbourn joke that a comedy about non-communication should depend on the sharpest communication skills. Sunday Times
Book Synopsis Season's Greetings by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book Season's Greetings written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now we don't want to start Christmas like this, do we?Cheating at snakes and ladders, fighting over comic books, a bungled infidelity beneath the tree. Christmas has arrived in the Bunker household along with family and friends. But as the children lurk just out of sight, it's the adults who are letting the side down. I couldn't. Not in our sitting-room. Not in front of the television. Somewhere else. Presiding over the festivities are two warring uncles, one a kindly, incompetent doctor with an interminable puppet show to perform; the other a bullying retired security guard who dominates the TV, brings toy guns for his nieces and determines there's a thief in their midst. Alan Ayckbourn's masterly Season's Greetings offers a seriously entertaining look at the misery and high jinks of an average family Christmas. The play opens at the National Theatre, London, in December 2010.Three times I caught him at it. Ripping open presents, helping himself to the contents.
Download or read book Table Manners written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1975 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Book Synopsis Communicating Doors by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book Communicating Doors written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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.
Download or read book Taking Steps written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1981 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Roland, a hard drinking tycoon, is considering buying an old Victorian house, once a brothel. His solicitor and the vendor, a builder, arrive to complete the deal. Also in the house are his wife, a frustrated dancer who is always considering leaving him, her brother and later the brother's fiancee, who is uncertain whether or not to run away. In the course of one hectic night and morning, with continual running up and downstairs and in and out of rooms, these characters, each immersed in a personal problem, try to sort themselves out. The first act curtain finds the solicitor in bed with the wife thinking her to be a ghost and the fiancee inadvertently shut in the attic cupboard by the distraught tycoon who has taken refuge there in the spare bed. All this takes place in a highly ingenious and original setting in which all the rooms, passages and stairs are on a single level"--
Book Synopsis A Study Guide for Alan Ayckbourn's "A Chorus of Disapproval" by : Gale, Cengage Learning
Download or read book A Study Guide for Alan Ayckbourn's "A Chorus of Disapproval" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 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.
Book Synopsis Invisible Friends by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book Invisible Friends written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the school swimming team. So Lucy revives her childhood fantasy friend, Zara, setting a place for her at the very ordinary tea table. This time Zara materializes, bringing with her an idealized father and brother, and showing Lucy how to make her real family vanish. The moral of this cautionary tale is carefully spelt out - that when you get what you want it's not what you wanted - as Lucy's dream family turns out to be a nightmare. The play is supposedly for children of seven upwards, but there's a message here for parents, too, about listening to kids.
Book Synopsis Time and Time Again by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book Time and Time Again written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1973 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confusions written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A student edition of five one-act plays by Britain's most popular playwright. Ayckbourn's series of plays for 4-5 actors typify his black comedies of human behaviour. First produced in 1976, 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. "Principally he is respected as a radical re-inventor of form" Dominic Dromgoole
Book Synopsis Ernie's Incredible Illucinations by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book Ernie's Incredible Illucinations written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Samuel French Limited. This book was released on 1969 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a bright comedy by the famous English comic playwright about the extraordinary powers of Ernie Fraser, a dreamer with a difference. Ernie has a vivid imagination; and his thoughts have the disconcerting habit of turning into reality....
Book Synopsis Alan Ayckbourn in Chekhov's Footsteps. A Study of Chekhovian Character Traits in Ayckbourn Drama by : Mustafa Kirca
Download or read book Alan Ayckbourn in Chekhov's Footsteps. A Study of Chekhovian Character Traits in Ayckbourn Drama written by Mustafa Kirca and published by ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mustafa Kirca explores the dark sides of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy by comparing the playwright’s characters with those of Chekhov’s drama and drawing a parallelism in the character portrayal of both artists. The significance of Ayckbourn’s plays, following Chekhov’s footsteps, particularly lies in his vivid portrayal of characters from everyday life with psychological depth. Kirca shows that the fine mix of comedy and tragedy in Ayckbourn’s drama is conveyed through his realistic characterization contrary to the farcical style of his plays. This kind of character portrayal in Ayckbourn’s plays brings him very close to Chekhov and establishes the known equilibrium between comedy and tragedy in his theatre. The study covers Ayckbourn’s Absent Friends, Just Between Ourselves, Joking Apart, Season’s Greetings, Woman in Mind, A Small Family Business, and Henceforward. From Chekhov’s drama, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard are included to define the general Chekhovian character traits. The book is especially interesting for teachers, students, and for general readers who are interested in modern 'human comedies'.
Book Synopsis Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny' Daily Telegraph In Three Plays Ayckbourn's perfectly pitched dialogue slices into the soul of suburbia. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - but the relationships between the husbands and wives are more complicated. Fraught relationships are exposed with humour, bathos and a sharp understanding of human nature.
