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Alan Ayckbourn: Works
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The Norman Conquest won the London Evening Standard's best play award for 1974, a prize Ayckbourn would claim several more times over the course of his career. He was soon recognized as one of Britain's leading playwrights, with some critics likening him to his American counterpart Neil Simon. In 1974, he produced two successful new works, Absent Friends and Confusions. The former featured a female protagonist driven to distraction by her uncaring husband, a common theme in Ayckbourn's work. Some critics related it to his own unhappy upbringing as the child of divorce. For these and his previous efforts, Ayckbourn was named 1974's "playwright of the year" by the Variety Club of Great Britain.
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The Bob Watson Archive holds the largest public collection of material on Alan Ayckbourn in the world. However, it relies on the good-will, contributions and donations of supporters as it does not have its own budget. Its work is only made possible through the generosity of supporters.
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It's an odd enough statistic that only four of Ayckbourn's plays have been made into films. Odder still that, of those, three are the work of Alain Resnais, the grand old man of the nouvelle vague. Coeurs is the latest.
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Posted here are two interviews conducted with Ayckbourn as part of a study of his mentor Stephen Joseph. This is a very detailed piece, replete with information on Ayckbourn's work at the Stephen Joseph Theater and his writing in general.
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