Confusions

Confusions

Confusions

Confusions

Overview

Confusions is a set of five interlinked one-act plays: Mother Figure, Drinking Companion, Between Mouthfuls, Gosforth’s Fête and A Talk in the Park. Each play deals riotously, but with sharply pointed undertones, with human eccentricities and the universal dilemma of loneliness; a mother unable to escape from baby talk, a disastrous fête, an unsuccessful seduction attempt, a fraught dinner encounter, and a final play about five self-immolated characters on park benches.

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Authors

Alan Ayckbourn

A playwright and theatre director, to date Alan Ayckbourn has written 89 plays – Family Album attracted four-star reviews when it premiered in September 2022 at the Stephen Joseph, where nearly all his plays are first staged.

However, this year he will stage his 88th play Welc ...

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