Alan Ayckbourn
Teoksen Norman Conquests: Table Manners; Living Together; Round and Round in the Garden (An Evergreen book) tekijä
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Many American tourists who flock to the annual Ayckbourn offering in London's West End, think of Alan Ayckbourn as Great Britain's Neil Simon. The analogy holds true to the extent that the relationship between Ayckbourn's and Simon's plays illustrates the difference between British and American näytä lisää theater and audiences. Both writers capture the social machinations of middle-class characters in daily situations that are made compelling simply by the addition of clever but conventional plots, dramatic intrigues, twists, and discoveries. However, where Simon's plays tend to evolve into a condition of broad pathos or comedy, luxuriating in bittersweet melodrama, Ayckbourn's offerings revel in ever increasing intricacy, sharply incisive verbal dueling, and a dark social resonance that sounds much greater depths than in Simon's drama. Ayckbourn's scripts embody boggling challenges for directors and actors as well as audiences. Intimate Exchanges (1985), for example, a sequence of plays for ten characters played by only two actors, involves numerous moments when an actor chooses to send the script off on one of two alternative directions. The Norman Conquests (1975) typifies Ayckbourn's determination to squeeze as much as possible out of a dramatic construct. The trilogy's first play, Table Manners, offers a typical Ayckbourn scenario with family traumas played against each other in the constrained setting of a dining room. In the second and third plays, Living Together and Round and Round the Garden, the audience is exposed to simultaneous layers of action that occur in two other venues, the living room and garden, when characters are not onstage in the dining room. Each play makes sense on its own, but the trilogy taken as a whole embodies a vision of this family that is larger than the sum of the individual parts. Aychbourn has also been known for rather experimental staging. The Way Upstream (1982), for example, is set on and around a boat and requires flooding the stage. Ayckbourn's later plays reflect a bleak vision of society. In Woman in Mind (1985) and Henceforward (1987), Aychbourn's characters have become increasingly complex, and he reveals himself as an intense social commentator. Other recent plays include It Could Be Any One of Us (1983), Man of the Moment (1990), and Body Language (1991). Since the 1970s, Ayckbourn has written at least one play a season; the premieres are always at a small local theater that he runs in the resort town of Scarborough. 020 (Bowker Author Biography) Alan Ayckbourn is the author of more than fifty plays, many of which are available from Faber. He lives in England. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Norman Conquests: Table Manners; Living Together; Round and Round in the Garden (An Evergreen book) (1973) 228 kappaletta
Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 1: A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward...Man of the Moment… (1995) 32 kappaletta
Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 3: Haunting Julia, Sugar Daddies, Drowning on Dry Land, Private Fears in Public Places (2005) 18 kappaletta
Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 2: Ernie's Incredible Illucinations, Invisible Friends, This Is Where We Came In, My Very… (1998) 6 kappaletta
By Jeeves 5 kappaletta
Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 6: Time of My Life; Neighbourhood Watch; Arrivals and Departures; Heroas Welcome; A Brief History… (2018) 3 kappaletta
By Jeeves - Libretto Book 2 kappaletta
By Jeeves: 2001 American Premiere Cast Recording — Lyricist — 2 kappaletta
Absurd 1 kappale
A Trip to Scarborough 1 kappale
Making Tracks 1 kappale
The Forest 1 kappale
A Pageant (Intimate Exchanges 3 0f 4) 1 kappale
Master of his Art 1 kappale
Herzen 1 kappale
Halbe Wahrheiten (Relatively Speaking) 1 kappale
Cheap & Cheerful 1 kappale
The Musical Jigsaw Play 1 kappale
Way Upstream. (Lernmaterialien) 1 kappale
A Talk in the Park 1 kappale
Garden 1 kappale
Verwarringen 1 kappale
Bedside story 1 kappale
Liefde half om half 1 kappale
Trap op, trap af 1 kappale
Beste wensen 1 kappale
Gosforth's Fete 1 kappale
Between Mouthfuls 1 kappale
Mother Figure 1 kappale
Drinking Companion 1 kappale
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- Syntymäaika
- 1939-04-12
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- male
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- UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- London, England, UK
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- London, England, UK
Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK - Ammatit
- stage manager
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Order of the British Empire (Commander)
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