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Although renowned as a playwright, Alan Ayckbourn is ... a prolific, acclaimed and award-winning director. This section of the website deals with Alan's directing career and the many actors who have been involved in his productions.
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In Alan Ayckbourn's new ghost story, Joe (Ian Hogg) will go to any length for answers. He still refuses to believe that the prodigy the tabloids dubbed Miss Miss Mozart really committed suicide.
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Alan Ayckbourn was born in Hampstead, London, a few months before the outbreak of World War II. His father was a prominent violinist and his mother a novelist and short story-writer. Unusually for the period, even for the more Bohemian classes, they never married, though Ayckbourn was unaware of this until his fifties. The relationship was full of separations, stormy and short-lived. Ayckbourn saw his father mainly on flying visits in his trademark open-topped sports car. Sitting beside his mother as she wrote at the kitchen table, hammering away at the small typewriter she bought to keep him quiet, he took it for granted that a woman might be a better breadwinner than a domestic provider and that a living could be made through creative writing.
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Ayckbourn spent much of his childhood in various boarding schools. At the age of 12, he received a scholarship to attend Haileybury, a respected public school. There he took an interest in drama under the influence of his teacher, Edgar Matthews. By the time he was 17, he had decided to pursue a career as an actor. He started out with small repertory theater companies, often working as a stage manager in addition to performing.
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Ayckbourn used to go on boating holidays, once with his children, he doubted would forgive him. Manning a boat does not require a license. Boats dont have brakes. The consequences can be imagined. He had seen a boat trapped sideways in a lock gate blocking everyone else.
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This section of the website is devoted to the various adaptations of Alan Ayckbourn plays in other media such as film, television and radio. There is ... listing for recordings of Alan Ayckbourn's musicals and incidental music. To access a page, click on the links above or the links below. If you would like more information about anything in these pages, email simon.murgatroyd@sjt.uk.com.
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