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Alan Ayckbourn

Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce

Three Plays - Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends, Bedroom Farce

Summary

'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny'
Daily Telegraph

In Three Plays Ayckbourn's perfectly pitched dialogue slices into the soul of suburbia. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - but the relationships between the husbands and wives are more complicated. Fraught relationships are exposed with humour, bathos and a sharp understanding of human nature.