Alan Ayckbourn Plays 1

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The first volume of Alan Aykbourn's collected works contains his morality plays from the 1980's.A Chorus of Disapproval

'Plunges us into an amateur operatic society production of The Beggar's Opera. The result is magnificent comedy - symmetrically shaped, psychologically acute and painfully, heartbreakingly funny.' GuardianA Small Family business

'A sizzling comedy' from a playwright 'who possesses an unnerving and unflinching insight in to the ways of the suburban world.' Time Out

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"A Chorus of Disapproval"
"Plunges us into an amateur operatic society production of "The Beggar's Opera," The result is a magnificent comedy--symmetrically shaped, psychologically acute and painfully, heartbreakingly funny."--"Guardian"
"A Small Family Business"
"A sizzling comedy" from a playwright "who possesses an unnerving and unflinching insight into the ways of the suburban world."--"Time Out"
"Henceforward..."
"That resourceful state magician, Alan Ayckbourn, has produced another dazzling display of theatrical alchemy. It is impossible to think of any other British dramatist who could write a science fiction play, complete with robots, high-tech gadgets and banks of winking electronic equipment and transform it into a superbly constructed comedy that also encompasses moments of desperate human sadness."--"Daily Telegraph"
"Man" "of the Moment"
"This is Ayckbourn at the peak of his powers using comedy to say harsh, true things about our society. With the cleansing force of a satirist, he suggests we are constantly fed a doctored version of reality in which virtue is treated as disposable and even as sexy. What he has written is a tonic comedy that defends traditional values without a trace of moral sententiousness."--"Guardian"

"A Chorus of Disapproval
"Plunges us into an amateur operatic society production of "The Beggar's Opera. The result is a magnificent comedy--symmetrically shaped, psychologically acute and painfully, heartbreakingly funny."--"Guardian
"A Small Family Business
"A sizzling comedy" from a playwright "who possesses an unnerving and unflinching insight into the ways of the suburban world."--"Time Out
"Henceforward...
"That resourceful state magician, Alan Ayckbourn, has produced another dazzling display of theatrical alchemy. It is impossible to think of any other British dramatist who could write a science fiction play, complete with robots, high-tech gadgets and banks of winking electronic equipment and transform it into a superbly constructed comedy that also encompasses moments of desperate human sadness."--"Daily Telegraph
"Man "of the Moment
"This is Ayckbourn at the peak of his powers using comedy to say harsh, true things about our society. With the cleansing force of a satirist, he suggests we are constantly fed a doctored version of reality in which virtue is treated as disposable and even as sexy. What he has written is a tonic comedy that defends traditional values without a trace of moral sententiousness."--"Guardian

Author Bio

Alan Ayckbourn is the most widely performed of all living playwrights, with a prolific back catalogue of work which has been translated into 40 languages and performed throughout the world. He has received many national and international awards. He was appointed a CBE in 1987, and in 1997 received a knighthood for his services to theatre.