Except you won't because this is one of
Ayckbourn's most ingenious comedies and it turns out that all the man wants is the girl to sign as witness to his statement incriminating his partner in the murder of his wives.
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AyckbournOver the years the company has produced 38
Ayckbourn plays and built a loyal following in Huddersfield and further afield.
The story, much as usual with this playwright, is set in middle-class suburbia, where misunderstandings and misinterpretations give rise to the kind of drolleries for which
Ayckbourn is celebrated and, more to the point, for which he fills theatres up and down the land.
| Alan
Ayckbourn's Snake in the Grass at Middlesbrough Theatre
Prolific playwright Alan
Ayckbourn recently directed his 79th play Hero's Welcome at Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre.
Tempers flare when a gnome gets thrown through a window in Alan
Ayckbourn's Neighbourhood Watch
This so annoys a fellow critic, one of strictly proletarian outlook, that he views
Ayckbourn as if through the crosshairs of a sniper rifle.
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.
"I have had beautiful performances from star actors, but it becomes overburdened In Conversation With Sir Alan
Ayckbourn and Arrivals and Departures WARWICK ARTS CENTRE by expectations from the audience."
ACT has previously staged 10
Ayckbourn plays with other directors.
"I envy and am in amazement at Alan
Ayckbourn's brain really," he marvels.