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Ayckbourn

Sir Alan. born 1939, English dramatist. His plays include Absurd Person Singular (1973), the trilogy The Norman Conquests (1974), A Chorus of Disapproval (1985), and House and Garden (2000)

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But before Ayckbourn gets to critique his work by the mixed team of amateur and professionals that make up Dick and Lottie, the play will be seen by audiences at the Lawrence Batley Theatre.

Dick and Lottie to perform for playwright; Theatre

What I think is going on (and I admit I did struggle) is that Ayckbourn the theatrical craftsman is cutting and pasting genres, so that we have something which is part ghost story and part Lewis Carroll, as Susan shreds the unexpected developments following Rick's return and finally jumbles them up into a nightmare involving all the characters, both real and imaginary.

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Ayckbourn loves a set device, and on this occasion the audience is afforded glimpses of the flats above and below.

Ayckbourn offering mostly on the button

Sir Alan Ayckbourn directs a 13-strong cast, including two children in Arrivals and Departures

Blend of comedy and tragedy; REVIEW

During the trial, it was revealed the jobless dad-of-one, from London, had raided a flat days before he struck at the Ayckbourn pad last August 18.

BURGLAR: 'HOW ARE YOU?' SIR ALAN: 'I'M ALL RIGHT'

Reza falls somewhere between Alan Ayckbourn and Tom Stoppard in her style of presentation and Christopher Hampton's translation isn't his most fluid.

CHANGING THE COSMOS, ONE SCENE AT A TIME, IN 'LIFE X 3'

Romance blossomed as the couple toured the country in the Alan Ayckbourn comedy Absent Friends.

Sophie's new choice

The company's annual half-term offering, which opens on Tuesday, February 17, at the LBT in Hudders-field, is the Alan Ayckbourn festive treat Season's Greetings, a play whose characters have, in the words of Dick and Lottie director John Cotgrave, "no redeeming qualities".

Dick and Lottie get festive at LBT

But she confessed she didn't know much about Ayckbourn or his plays before auditioning for Things We Do For Love, which is directed by Laurence Boswe"I didn't expec job," she said.

Natalie makes stage debut; Pop stars in musicals aren't uncommon but Natalie Imbruglia chose a bitter-sweet drama for her stage debut, as David Whetstone reports

ACTOR Andrew Wincott is playing an imaginary ideal lover in an Alan Ayckbourn play.

Worlds collide as fantasy spirals out of control; The Archers actor Andew Wincott talks to Roz Laws about playing an imaginary husband on stage and a gay one on the radio

NOBODY does Alan Ayckbourn better than the talented People's Theatre amateurs when they're on song - and you could say they've had plenty of practice.

Comedy on the dark side

In Conversation With Sir Alan Ayckbourn and Arrivals and Departures WARWICK ARTS CENTRE IN SIR Alan Ayckbourn's plays there are no "stars".