Libros de Alan Ayckbourn

Absurd Person Singular - A Play

• Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. The "lower class" but very much up and coming Hopcrofts are in their bright new, gadget filled kitchen anxiously giving a little party for their bank...

Roleplay - A Comedy

• Justin and Julie-Ann, hopelessly mismatched in love, are about to introduce their respective parents to each other over dinner - Justin’s upper-crust alcoholic mother from Surrey and Julie-Ann’s bigoted Yorkshire father...

Flatspin - A Comedy

• A night of romance in her luxurious riverside apartment with the good-looking stranger from next door. How can Joanna possibly go wrong? Except the flat isn’t hers, her name isn’t Joanna, it’s Rosie...

Henceforward...

• England's comic master is in a black comic mode in this West End hit about our fascination with technology. It is sometime quite soon in a steel shuttered, slovenly flat in a no go area of North London where punks rule deserted streets. Here, a lonely...

My Very Own Story - A Play For Children

• 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 yarn featuring, to his dismay, Paul who has...

Things We Do For Love – A Play

• 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, contentedly occupies the ordered, male free ground...

Man Of The Moment - A Play

• Television producer Jill Rillington is taping a documentary, which will reunite Vic Parks with Douglas Beechey. Seventeen years ago, Douglas inadvertently foiled Vic’s last bank robbery, during which Vic shot a teller in the face. Vic,...

Neighbourhood Watch

• 105 páginas
• "Brother and sister Martin and Hilda Massie live together, leading a quiet, Christian existence in the confines of the Bluebell Hill Development. Just as they are preparing for a housewarming gathering, their peace is shattered by a young trespasser...

Norman Conquests: Table Manners; Living Together; Round And Round In The Garden

• This brilliant comic trilogy details the amorous exploits of Norman, assistant librarian, whose one

Kitchen

• 152 páginas
• "Ms. Yoshimoto's writing is lucid, earnest and disarming.. [It] seizes hold of the reader's sympathy and refuses to let go." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Waiting For The Dark, Waiting For The Light

• A New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, Waiting for the Dark,..

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Theaterhandwerk

• 186 páginas

If I Were You

• 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 Chrissie has recently become a mum and is dealing with...

Dreams From A Summer House

• The reigning king of English comedy strikes off in a new direction with this gleeful fantasy. A couple is preparing for an al fresco party while their hapless ex son in law is holed up in their summer house, drinking off his divorce while he completes...

My Wonderful Day

• 68 páginas
• Winnie is nearly nine. Her mum, Laverne, is second-generation Afro-Caribbean and heavily pregnant but continues with her cleaning job since her husband left while she dreams of moving the family back to Martinique. Tuesdays are special: Laverne insists...

Awaking Beauty

• Ever wondered what else happened to Sleeping Beauty when she finally woke up in the 21st century? Alan Ayckbourn provides the answer with this alternative seasonal fare in the musical Awaking Beauty.|5 women, 5 men

House & Garden

• An unprecedented theatre event: two plays take place simultaneously in the same theatre but in different auditoriums. Characters walk off one set and onto the other throughout and yet each portion is a complete theatre experience. In HOUSE, two upper-crus...

Man Of The Moment

• 116 páginas
• Ein Stück über den manipu­lativen Einfluss der Massen­medien und die Gier des Publikums nach Sensation. Um sich zu profilieren kon­frontiert eine ehrgeizige Fernsehjournalistin einen Ex-Bankräuber mit seinem Opfer.