Alan Ayckbourn
Britain's most performed living playwright, Ayckbourn has written over 85 plays, most of which explore middle-class English life with a mixture of comedy and darkness that becomes increasingly bleak. The Norman Conquests is a trilogy of plays set simultaneously in different rooms of the same house. His formal inventiveness is extraordinary.
Works
- The Norman ConquestsThree linked comedies about English couples and romantic entanglements
- Absurd Person SingularComic ensemble piece about class and human behavior at dinner party gathering
- The Revengers' Comedies
- Woman in MindPsychological comedy about woman's mental breakdown and family dysfunction
- Just Between OurselvesDomestic comedy exploring marriage strains and emotional manipulation
- Bedroom FarceFarcical comedy about miscommunication and chaos in overlapping bedrooms
- A Chorus of DisapprovalComedy about amateur drama group performing Jacobean revenge tragedy