Topic: Alan Ayckbourn

Neighbourhood Watch

People are thought to mellow when they get older, but that doesn't seem to apply to 72-year-old Alan Ayckbourn, prolific Brit scribe who has penned...

Theatre

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) was plunged into turmoil again when its artistic director, Adrian Noble, resigned on April 24, 2002. Noble's announcement came the week after his West End production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, a new musical based on ...

Tears and sympathy in Absent Friends

The National's showcase production of Season's Greetings is but a month away, yet those impatient for Alan Ayckbourn in SE1 will be well served by this revival of his 1974 hit. We're in the familiar Ayckbourn terrain of middle-class ...
Alan Ayckbourn (born 12th April 1939) has been a mainstay of British comedy theater for many years, with more than 70 plays to his name, nearly all of which have premiered in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, where Ayckbourn was the artistic director of ...
I managed to get to the Theatre Royal in Bath on 27th February 2008 to see Alan Ayckbourn's latest adaptation of A Trip to Scarborough. He also moved the location of the storyline from the capital to the more remote location ...
<div id="subtitle">Alan Ayckbourn, Marian Seldes slated for 2010 Lifetime Achievement Tony Awards</div><div><p>Alan Ayckbourn and Marian Seldes will receive 2010 Lifetime Achievement Tony Awards.</p><p>The playwright and actress will be honored during the Tony ceremony ...

30 Meals Worth Traveling For

IT'S SHOWTIME BUT MAYBE NOT FOR LONG In Mel Brooks's new musical The Producers, based on his 1968 film of the same name, Nathan Lane plays a down-on-his-luck theater producer and a bookish Matthew Broderick is his bumbling accountant. The ...

My Wonderful Day

Most people know Alan Ayckbourn for his temporally overlapping cycles-dramatic stunts such as House and Garden or The Norman Conquests-that look at one series of dramatic events from several perspectives. In his amusing, melancholy My Wonderful Day, Ayckbourn also has his cast ...
In Alan Ayckbourn's new play, a thoughtful child observes 'My Wonderful Day'Some adults still believe that children should be seen and not heard. But what if that quiet child is writing down every foolish thing the adults are saying and ...

Thoughtful direction in Confusions

Alan Ayckbourn's Confusions is a quintet of short linked plays, dating from the mid-Seventies. The situations are familiar but enlivened, in customary Ayckbourn style, by the tremors of domestic catastrophe. The characters' lives are full of empty rituals and non communication ...