Book description
'What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn's comedy is that it
contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it
is agonisingly funny'
Daily Telegraph
In Three Plays Ayckbourn's perfectly pitched dialogue slices
into the soul of suburbia. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a
bedroom, a party - but the relationships between the husbands and
wives are more complicated. Fraught relationships are exposed with
humour, bathos and a sharp understanding of human nature.
Born in London in 1939, Alan Ayckbourn is one of the world's most
popular and prolific playwrights. He has written 74 full length plays
and more than 20 other revues and plays for children. He is also an
acclaimed director. Alan Ayckbourn was awarded a CBE in 1987. Ten years
later to the day, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II 'for services to
the theatre.'
