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Alan Ayckbourn Comedy 3m, 2f minimum. Confusions is actually a set of five interlinked one act plays. Each play deals riotously, but with sharply pointed undertones, with human eccentricities and the human dilemma of loneliness; a mother unable to escape from baby talk, a disastrous fete, an unsuccessful seduction attempt, a fate fraught dinner encounter and the final play sums up with five self immolated characters on park benches. "Buoyant ... sad, sharp and funny." - London Guardian "Runs the gamut of comic technique from faintly pathetic situation comedy to outright farce.... Ayckbourn has demonstrated once again that even in a trivial situation he can hold the attention with his matchless ear for conversational speech, and in untrivial situations shows himself a comic writer of immortal quality." -London Financial Times FEE: $100 per performance. Other Alan Ayckbourn titles available from Samuel French include:
A Cut in the RatesAbsent Friends Absurd Person Singular Bedroom Farce Callisto 5 Chorus of Disapproval Comic PotentialCommunicating Doors Dreams From a Summer HouseErnie's Incredible IllucinationsFamily CirclesHenceforwardHouse and GardenHow the Other Half LovesIf I Were YouIntimate Exchanges, Vol. 1Intimate Exchanges, Vol. 2Invisible FriendsIt Could Be Any One of UsJoking ApartJust Between OurselvesLiving TogetherMan of the MomentMe, Myself, and IMr. A's Amazing Maze PlaysMy Very Own StoryMy Wonderful DayThe Norman ConquestsPrivate Fears in Public PlacesRelatively SpeakingThe Revengers' ComediesRound and Round the GardenSeason's GreetingsSisterly FeelingsA Small Family BusinessSnake in the GrassTable 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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