Alan Ayckbourn

Comedy

5m, 5f (to play various roles)

4 ints.

A sensation in London and New York, 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 soap opera is being taped. One actor starts speaking gibberish; he is an "actoid" a robot and his programming is off kilter. Adam, the young nephew of the producer and an aspiring writer who worships the director (once a great movie director and now a broken down has been), is on the set. Adam starts chatting with Jacie Tripplethree, the actoid (serial number JC333) playing the nurse and finds, to his surprise, that not only can she carry on a conversation but, due to what she calls a fault in her programming, she has a creative imagination. Adam wants to build a new television series around her but the studio will not hear of it. He also finds he is falling in love with the charming robot! Will Adam get the green light on his series? Will love prevail? Jacie is one of Ayckbourn's greatest characters; her portrayer won all of London's major acting awards.

"Comic Potential hurts you with the sheer exuberance of its laughter and liberates you with its seriousness."-London Sunday Times

FEE: $100 per performance.

Other Alan Ayckbourn titles available from Samuel French include:
A Cut in the Rates
Absent Friends
Absurd Person Singular
Bedroom Farce
Callisto 5
Chorus of Disapproval
Communicating Doors
Confusions
Dreams From a Summer House
Ernie's Incredible Illucinations
Family Circles
Henceforward
House and Garden
How the Other Half Loves
If I Were You
Intimate Exchanges, Vol. 1
Intimate Exchanges, Vol. 2
Invisible Friends
It Could Be Any One of Us
Joking Apart
Just Between Ourselves
Living Together
Man of the Moment
Me, Myself, and I
Mr. A's Amazing Maze Plays
My Very Own Story
My Wonderful Day
The Norman Conquests
Private Fears in Public Places
Relatively Speaking
The Revengers' Comedies
Round and Round the Garden
Season's Greetings
Sisterly Feelings
A Small Family Business
Snake in the Grass
Table Manners
Taking Steps
Ten Times Table
Things We Do For Love
This is Where We Came In
Time and Time Again
Time of My Life
Tons of Money
Way Upstream
Wildest Dreams
Woman in Mind