Background
Ayckbourn, Alan was born on April 12, 1939 in Hampstead, London, England. Son of Horace and Irene Maude (Worley) Ayckbourn.
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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.
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A remarkable tragic comedy, Alan Ayckbourn's 52nd full-length play was first presented at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 1997 and received its West End premiere in Spring 1998. Things We Do For Love won the 1997 Lloyds Private Banking Playwright of the Year Award.
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From a reviewer: "The play is excellent fun and funny. I watched the play in the theatre and I had to go out and buy the book and tape of it. It about a family gathering and how there is a lot tension between people."
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An ingenious set greets the audience of this award winning play: the cross section of a Victorian house that has been divided into three flats. The owner, a fastidious, elegant executive named Barbara, contentedly occupies the ordered, male free ground floor visible in its entirety. The basement ceiling can be seen and this is were Gilbert, a boorish postman and handyman, is painting a nude study of his landlady. Barbara is letting Nikki, a schoolfriend, and her fiance use the upstairs flat even though she has taken an instant dislike to him. Ever life's victim, Nikki is destined to suffer yet again when Barbara succumbs to an unexpected and violent passion.
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The leading lights of the village have decided to hold a pageant of local history based on a somewhat vague event, "The Massacre of the Pendon Twelve". But there's a young left wing teacher on the committee who decides to turn it into a rally for proletarian revolution. Committee meetings become symbolic battlefields for conflicting views - the right wing faction being led by the Chairman's conservative wife. The event turns into a violent confrontation between the two extremes, with cataclysmic results. Police intervention brings matters to a relatively quiet conclusion, but already another pageant - Romans versus Britons - seems an attractive possibility.
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Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fiancée so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him. Understandably they are on edge wondering what to say, but there is more to their unease: Diane and Paul, John and Evelyn, and Marge and her husband are perpetually out of circulation with trivial illnesses are all kept together by a mixture of business and cross-marital emotional ties. By the time Colin arrives for tea, their tenseness contrasts dramatically with his air of cheerful relaxation. He is the only happy one among them and his happiness and insensitive analyses of their troubles causes each of them to break down.
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Ayckbourn, Alan was born on April 12, 1939 in Hampstead, London, England. Son of Horace and Irene Maude (Worley) Ayckbourn.
Student, Haileybury; Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Hull, 1981. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Keele, 1987. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Leeds, 1987.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University York, 1992. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Bradford, 1994. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Wales, Cardiff, 1995.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Open University, 1998. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Manchester, 2003.
Stage manager, actor, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, England, 1957-1959; writer, director, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, England, 1959-1961; writer, artistic director, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, since 1970; founder member, actor, writer, director, Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, England, 1961-1964; radio drama producer, British Broadcasting Corporation, Leeds, Yorkshire., England, 1964-1970; visiting playwright, director, National Theatre, London, 1977, 80, 86-88; professor contemporary theater, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, England, 1992.
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( A remarkable tragic comedy, Alan Ayckbourn's 52nd full-...)
(The leading lights of the village have decided to hold a ...)
(An ingenious set greets the audience of this award winnin...)
( Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of ...)
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Member Garrick Club.
Married Christine Helen Roland, May 9, 1959 (divorced 1997). Children: Steven Paul, Philip Nicholas. Married Heather Stoney, September 19, 1997.