Alan Ayckbourn Plays 2

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571318339

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Alan Ayckbourn Plays 2 by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

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.

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0571194575

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Plays Two by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

Plays Two: Ernie's Incredible Illucinations Invisible Friends This Is Where We Came In My Very Own Story The Champion of Paribanou Alan Ayckbourn introduces this second collection of work containing some of his wonderfully inventive children's plays, which are a treat to read and a joy to perform.

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Samuel French Limited
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573120633

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Ernie's Incredible Illucinations by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

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....

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573693773

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A Small Family Business by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

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 "--

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571318223

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Woman in Mind by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

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.

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Samuel French Limited
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017246633

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This is where We Came in by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

The lives of a group of travelling players is controlled by three eccentric storytellers - Great Aunt Repetitus, Uncle Erraticus and Uncle Oblivious - who force them to act out twisted versions of fairy stories. Capitalising on information let slip by Uncle Oblivious, the Players, with the help of the magical "Kevin on the Keyboards", manage to regain control of the stories and their lives.

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571318278

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Communicating Doors by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

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.

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472536419

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Confusions by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

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

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1995-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0614067103

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Alan Ayckbourn Plays by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571318636

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The Crafty Art of Playmaking by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

With over sixty plays written and premièred at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough before going on to play in the West End or the Royal National Theatre, London, or Broadway, Alan Ayckbourn's expertise in writing and directing plays is unsurpassed. For the first time, here in The Crafty Art of Playmaking, he shares all his tricks of the trade. From helpful hints on writing (Where do you start? How do you continue? What is comedy and how do you write it? What is tragedy and how does it work?), to tips on directing (working with actors and technicians, when to listen to the other experts, how to cope with rehearsals), the book provides a complete primer for the tyro and a refresher for the more experienced. Written in an accessible and highly entertaining style, with anecdotes galore to illustrate the how, when, where and why, it's worth the cover price for the jokes alone. 'A marvellously useful and enjoyably good-humoured book' Daily Telegraph

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Families
ISBN : 0573617155

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Table Manners by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

"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
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Children's plays, English
ISBN : 0573051054

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My Very Own Story by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

Due to an unfortunate triple booking, three storytellers, Peter, Paul and Percy, arrive simultaneously each to tell his own story. After some acrimony, Percy wins out and is soon telling his story - a Victorian yarn featuring, to his dismay, Paul who has hijacked the leading role. Soon Peter in turn is continuing Percy's unresolved fable only to find Percy appearing in this. In due course, Peter appears in Paul's gothic story (an extension of Peter's forties tales) and together they reach a surprisingly happy conclusion.8 women, 9 men

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571273485

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Season's Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

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.

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN : 057369284X

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Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

"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"--

Author : Alan Ayckbourn
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0573627975

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Comic Potential by Alan Ayckbourn Pdf

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.