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Alan Ayckbourn: Plays
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Joseph Theatre in the Round in 1957, Alan Ayckbourn was set on being an actor. Little did he know he would become one of England's most successful and well-respected playwrights; in fact, he would go on to become the first living playwright to be knighted since Noel Coward. Encouraged and mentored by Stephen Joseph, who believed that the presence of the playwright was integral to the theater, Ayckbourn began writing (under the pseudonym Roland Allen) in order to provide himself with leading parts. He would soon drop acting altogether for an extremely prolific writing career.
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Alan Ayckbourn's new play is unlike anything he's done before. It's a ghost story. It's a chiller. And it runs for 110 minutes without an interval. It's still very funny - and gently but disturbingly profound.
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All published plays by Alan Ayckbourn are kept permanently in stock at the Stephen Joseph Theatre (www.sjt.uk.com). Plays published by Faber & Faber can ... be purchased through Faber's website at www.thebookplace.co.uk. Plays published by Samuel French can also be purchased through their website at www.samuelfrench-london.co.uk.
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The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980s. It includes the plays A Chorus of Disapproval, A Small Family Business, Henceforward . . ., and Man of the Moment.
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Alan Ayckbourn was born in 1939. He attended Haileybury public school, near Hertford, and left aged 17 to begin a theatrical career, interrupted briefly by National Service. Over a long career he has written 62 plays, and he lives in Scarborough, where he runs the Stephen Joseph Repertory Theatre.
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Most of the adaptations of Alan Ayckbourn's plays in other media have never been released commercially and definitive details are often hard to find. To this end, the website is reliant upon and grateful to people who have details about the various recordings of Alan's plays. If you know of a recording not listed or have further information about any of the recordings, the website would be delighted to hear from you. Just email Simon at simon.murgatroyd@sjt.uk.com with any information.
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