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Alan Ayckbourn
Full Length, Comedy
2m, 2f
Int. 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 floor visible in its entirety. The basement ceiling can be seen and this is were Gilbert, a boorish postman and handyman, is painting a nude study of his landlady. Barbara is letting Nikki, a schoolfriend, and her fiance use the upstairs flat even though she has taken an instant dislike to him. Ever life's victim, Nikki is destined to suffer yet again when Barbara succumbs to an unexpected and violent passion.
"Handles a potentially tragic theme with a rueful comic zest.... This is a Private Lives for the nineties."-London Guardian "It comes at you with a sense of new minted inspiration, and of wit and comedy, which is both bruising and healing. As with all of [Ayckbourn's] best work, the structure of the play and the structure of the set are expressions of the play's subject."-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 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 JuliaHenceforwardHouse 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 TableThis is Where We Came InTime and Time AgainTime of My LifeTons of MoneyWay UpstreamWildest DreamsWoman in Mind
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