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Confusions by Alan Ayckbourn
Contains five one-act plays by Britain's most popular playwright, Ayckbourn. This title features: "The Mother Figure", "The Drinking Companion", "Between Mouthfuls", "Gosforth's Fete" and "A Talk in the Park". It presents the plays with a full introduction, commmentary and questions for study.This is a student edition of 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, but underlying each is the problem of loneliness. "The Mother Figure" shows a mother unable to escape from baby talk; in "The Drinking Companion" an absentee husband attempts seduction without success; in "Between Mouthfuls", a waiter oversees a fraught dinner encounter. A garden party gets out of hand in "Gosforth's Fete" whilst "A Talk in the Park" is a revue style curtain call piece for the five actors. Whether the comedies concern marital conflict, infidelity or motherhood and take place on a park bench or at a village fete, the characters are familiar and their cries for help instantly recognisable. "Principally he is respected as a radical re-inventor of form" - Dominic Dromgoole. |
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| Author(s) : Alan Ayckbourn | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0413532704 | ISBN-13 : 9780413532701 |
| RRP : £7.99 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Student Editions
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 13/10/1983
Publisher : A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Page Length : 128mm
Page Size : 198mm