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Book Synopsis Alan Ayckbourn Plays 2 by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book Alan Ayckbourn Plays 2 written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treat to read and a joy to perform, this second collection of Alan Ayckbourn's work is a cornucopia of some of his wonderfully inventive children's plays. From the story of the teenage Lucy in Invisible Friends who revives her childhood imaginary friend when things get difficult at home, onto the storytellers in My Very Own Story and This Is Where We Came In and, finally, to young Ernie who 'illucinates' all sorts of wild and weird happenings with astonishing results.
Book Synopsis The Champion of Paribanou by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book The Champion of Paribanou written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loosely inspired by the 'Arabian Nights' tale of the flying carpet, 'The Champion of Paribanou' follows the adventures of Ahmed as he becomes the Princess Paribanou's champion against the evil Schaibar's champion and his former best friend Murgannah. It was premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, in November 1996.
Book Synopsis Audition Speeches for Younger Actors 16+ by : Jean Marlow
Download or read book Audition Speeches for Younger Actors 16+ written by Jean Marlow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Audition speeches for actors aged 16-18, selected by Jean Marlow. Includes advice from actors, casting directors and teachers
Book Synopsis The Boy Who Fell into a Book by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book The Boy Who Fell into a Book written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rockfist Slim's enemies have just plunged him into yet another desperate situation when Kevin has to close his detective book and go to sleep. But his own adventure is only just beginning. Fast-moving, fun and full of special effects, Ayckbourn's wonderfully inventive play for children brings alive several well-known children's books as Kevin and Rockfist Slim escape the baddies and plunge into many different worlds. The Boy Who Fell into a Book premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, in December 1998.
Book Synopsis Communicating Doors by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book Communicating Doors written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Ms Poopay Dayseer, a twenty-first century Specialist Sexual Consultant, whilst peddling her 'services' to an elderly hotel room client unexpectedly finds herself running for her life. How her flight through a communicating door brings her face to face with her own past and with Ruella who apparently died under suspicious circumstances twenty years earlier. And how Poopay's gradual friendship with that remarkable woman changes the future for both of them... A time-travelling comedy thriller, Communicating Doors was published to coincide with the West End opening in 1995.
Book Synopsis Alan Ayckbourn Plays 5 by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book Alan Ayckbourn Plays 5 written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snake in the Grass A terrific piece - brilliant, bizarre and yet totally believable . . . In fact, it's more than classic; it's close to the top of its class. Yorkshire Post If I Were You A blissfully funny comedy that's also filled with sadness, a devilishly simple theatrical idea that spins out all kinds of complex truths about human nature. Daily Telegraph Life and Beth A wise, humane, funny play about the inevitability of death and the continuity of life. Guardian My Wonderful Day A transformation happens as magical as the most magnificent pantomime transformation anyone could ever imagine . . . the playwright dissolves the paraphernalia of our adult selves and uncovers that space inside each of us that is still the child we once were. Observer Life of Riley As perceptive as ever . . . Ayckbourn has once again achieved a satisfyingly rich, tragi-comic complexity. Daily Telegraph
Book Synopsis Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1 by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1 written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of the Moment.
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 Grinning At The Edge by : Paul Allen
Download or read book Grinning At The Edge written by Paul Allen and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the hugely acclaimed, authorised biography of Britain's most popular playwright Alan Ayckbourn is Britain's most popular playwright and its most private. He has won numerous awards for his plays and has worked with some of theatre's most celebrated names, yet he spends most of his time away from the limelight in a Yorkshire seaside town not writing at all but running a small repertory theatre. This is a portrait of a man who - from Relatively Speaking in 1965 to his double play House and Garden at the National Theatre in 2000 - has chronicled human behaviour, our aspirations and insecurities, while shaping the theatrical experience of millions. "Mr Allen's book makes me want to start reading the entire Ayckbourn canon over again...splendid stuff" Hugh Leonard, Sunday Independent "Paul Allen has come up with a wise, well-informed book that not only persuades us of Ayckbourn's genius but also helps to explain this complex, driven man" Michael Billington, Country Life "Lucid, meticulously researched ... this impressively detailed account benefits from Paul Allen's rich inside knowledge of theatre" Terry Eagleton, Times Literary Supplement "Thorough and enjoyable" Christopher Hirst, Independent
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.
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 A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005 by : Mary Luckhurst
Download or read book A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005 written by Mary Luckhurst and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity. An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
Download or read book Surprises written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love stories yet to happen, in a future filled with surprises. Who is the amorous stranger, Titus, who materialises in young Grace's bedroom? Can she believe he is who he says he is? For her parents, Franklin and Martha, does love everlasting still hold true if death is postponed indefinitely? Can lawyer Lorraine, who prides herself on her infallibility, have finally discovered the ideal partner, one who is also never wrong? Will lonely secretary Sylvia, after unhappy affairs with everyone from deep sea divers to space shuttle pilots, ever find her Mr Right? A comedy with its head in the future and its heart in the past, Alan Ayckbourn's Surprises premiered in July 2012 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, in a co-production with Chichester Festival Theatre.
Book Synopsis Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 6 by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 6 written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an Introduction by the author. 'The prolific master of suburban mayhem has still got his mojo.' Evening Standard Time of My Life'One of Mr. Ayckbourn's most virtuosic experiments in postmodern narrative.' Wall Street Journal Neighbourhood Watch'Ayckbourn's tartly topical, pitch-black comedy, a startling evocation of the panic induced by nightmarish notions of "broken Britain"... An arresting, nastily comic cautionary tale.' The Times Arrivals and Departures'Ayckbourn's genius lies in his ability to write what you might call 'sad comedies,' uproariously funny farces that are at second glance deeply serious, at times despairing portraits of modern middle-class life and its discontents. On occasion, as in Arrivals & Departures, he puts the despair at centre stage, and what results is a play that at bottom can no longer be called a comedy at all.' Wall Street JournalHero's Welcome 'Alan Ayckbourn is the poet laureate of missed connections. In play after pensive, droll and acid play, Ayckbourn anatomizes how we fail to understand and trust our lovers and friends.' Guardian A Brief History of Women'As A Brief History of Women follows Spates at twenty year intervals through the next sixty years, it becomes progressively more funny, more tender, more Ayckbourn. Ayckbourn knows that moments of real connection between people are hard-won and hard to forget.' The Times
Book Synopsis A Small Family Business by : Alan Ayckbourn
Download or read book A Small Family Business written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well, that's one down, isn't it. Nine to go. Next! Thou shalt not kill. What about that then? Let's have a crack at that one next, shall we? Jack McCracken: a man of principle in a corrupt world. But not for long. Moments after taking over his father-in-law's business he's approached by a private detective armed with some compromising information. Jack's integrity fades away as he discovers his extended family to be thieves and adulterers, looting the business from their suburban homes. Rampant self-interest takes over and comic hysteria builds to a macabre climax. A riotous exposure of entrepreneurial greed, Alan Ayckbourn's A Small Family Business, premiered at the National Theatre in 1987 and returned there in April 2014.
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.
