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Life and Beth
3 Male, 3 Female
It's Christmas, and Beth Timms is mourning the recent death of her health and safety officer husband, Gordon Beth's sister-in-law Connie and son Martin have come to stay, determined to ensure that she…
If I Were You
3 Male, 2 Female
The Rodales seem like an ordinary family, but beneath the surface things are beginning to crack ... Jill and Mal have lost the spark in their marriage, their son Sam resents his father and their daughter…
My Wonderful Day
2 Male, 4 Female
Winnie is nearly nine and the Play is seen through her eyes ... Her mum, Laverne, is second-generation Afro-Caribbean and heavily pregnant but continues with her cleaning job since her husband left while…
Bedroom Farce
4 Male, 4 Female
Trevor and Susannah are a couple whose marriage is heading towards the rocks and the play depicts an endless night in which they inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest, three other couples…
Confusions - Five Interlinked One-act Plays - STUDENT EDITION
Five one-act plays by Britain's most popular playwright Ayckbourn's series of plays for 4-5 actors typify his black comedies of human behaviour. The plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical,…
Comic Potential - USA Edition
5 Male, 5 Female
This is one of the funniest and most inventive plays by Britain's grand master of comedy A hilarious satire of television and a touching romantic comedy, it begins in a television studio where a hospital…
Lighting Techniques for Theatre in the Round
This should prove to be a unique reference source for those working on lighting design for theatre-in-the-round for the first time. It is the first title to be published specifically on the subject, it…
Damsels in Distress - RolePlay
The trilogy comprises FlatSpin, GamePlan, and RolePlay was first seen at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough and later at the Duchess Theatre, London Each is self contained, the common theme linking…
Damsels in Distress - GamePlan
The trilogy comprises FlatSpin, GamePlan, and RolePlay was first seen at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough and later at the Duchess Theatre, London Each is self contained, the common theme linking…
Damsels in Distress - FlatSpin
The trilogy comprises FlatSpin, GamePlan, and RolePlay was first seen at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough and later at the Duchess Theatre, London Each is self contained, the common theme linking…
The Things We Do For Love
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,…
House and Garden
Two plays about love and marriage take place in different auditoria simultaneously with the same large cast appearing in both of them. As always in Ayckbourn, hilarity is combined with hurt.
The Things We Do For Love
Ayckbourn’s 52nd full-length play is a tragicomedy in which people on all three levels of a house have fantasies and deep-seated misconceptions about each other and themselves “A cruel and…
Wolf at the Door
9 Male, 6 Female
Henry Becque’s original play, ‘Les Corbeaux’, is faithfully adapted and tells the story of Madame Vigneron and her children who, after the death of Monsieur Vigneron, are plunged into…
Wolf at the Door
9 Male, 6 Female
Henry Becque’s original play, ‘Les Corbeaux’, is faithfully adapted and tells the story of Madame Vigneron and her children who, after the death of Monsieur Vigneron, are plunged into…
Sisterly Feelings
8 Male, 4 Female
This ingenious Comedy is about two sisters and the choices they make (or have made for them) over a few months There are four versions that can be done on different evenings, each stemming from one random…
Suburban Strains Book
8 Male, 7 Female
This ingenious musical play concerns Caroline who marries unemployed actor Kevin, and supports him while he flirts with other women and ruins her flat with his oafish behaviour. Eventually Caroline has…
My Very Own Story
8 Male, 5 Female
Due to an unfortunate triple booking, three storytellers, Peter, Paul and Percy, arrive simultaneously each to tell his own story After some acrimony, Percy wins out and is soon telling his story - a Victorian…
A Small Family Business
7 Male, 6 Female
When Jack, honest and upright, takes over as managing director of his family’s furniture business, he is horrified to discover the widespread fraud and theft in both the business and amongst his…
Mr Whatnot
7 Male, 4 Female
When Mr Whatnot, a piano tuner, is summoned to the stately home of Lord and Lady Slingsby-Craddock, he falls in love with their daughter Amanda and elopes with her. Can a humble piano tuner manage to rescue…
A Chorus of Disapproval
7 Male, 6 Female
A diffident widower attempts to escape loneliness by joining the local amateur light operatic society. By accident rather than by design (in fact, by not saying “no” to anything be it a request…
Tons of Money
6 Male, 4 Female
Alan Ayckbourn’s version of the first of the famous Aldwych farces was produced by the National Theatre. It is the story of an unsuccessful inventor who inherits the life interest in a fortune which…
