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Advanced Groups Dark Comedy Alan Ayckbourn 3m, 4f Int. 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 composer sits surrounded by high tech equipment. His only company is a robot nanny, and she's on the blink. He desperately wants to reclaim his teenage daughter and enlists an out of work actress to implement a cunning plan he's evolved to impress his estranged wife and a wired for sound child welfare officer. When things don't work out, Jerome has to improvise.... It's amazing what can be done with new micro chips and a screwdriver! "This brilliant play offers an ultimately bleak vision of men, machines and society. But the exhilarating Ayckbournian paradox is that the darker it gets the funnier it becomes." The Guardian. "A superbly constructed comedy." Daily Telegraph. "Nobody can be as funny as Alan Ayckbourn, or as frightening." Financial Times. FEE: $100 per performance. Other Alan Ayckbourn titles available from Samuel French include:
A Cut in the Rates Absent Friends Absurd Person Singular Awaking BeautyBedroom Farce Callisto 5 Chorus of Disapproval Comic PotentialCommunicating Doors Confusions Dreams From a Summer House Drowning on Dry LandErnie's Incredible IllucinationsFamily Circles Haunting JuliaHouse and GardenHow the Other Half LovesIf I Were You Improbable FictionIntimate Exchanges, Vol. 1Intimate Exchanges, Vol. 2Invisible FriendsIt Could Be Any One of UsJoking ApartJust Between Ourselves Life and BethLiving TogetherMan of the MomentMe, Myself, and IMr. A's Amazing Maze PlaysMy Very Own StoryMy Wonderful DayThe Norman Conquests Orvin – Champions of Champions Private Fears in Public PlacesRelatively SpeakingThe Revengers' ComediesRound and Round the GardenSeason's GreetingsSisterly FeelingsA Small Family BusinessSnake in the Grass Sugar DaddiesTable MannersTaking StepsTen Times TableThings We Do For LoveThis is Where We Came InTime and Time AgainTime of My LifeTons of MoneyWay UpstreamWildest DreamsWoman in Mind
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