Alan Ayckbourn's best works are incisive dissections of class and coupledom in Britain, gently brushed by melancholy. But neglect that darker strain and some of the earlier comedies, especially, can ...

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Michael Cumpsty (Ronald), Mary Birdsong (Marion), Scott Drummond (Geoffrey) and Liz Wisan (Eva) in Absurd Person Singular at Two River Theater. Alan Ayckbourne’s “Absurd Person Singular,” now playing ...

Alan Ayckbourn often has been termed the British Neil Simon due to his prodigious output of plays in a quirky comical vein. South Coast Repertory has yet to mount a Simon show, but has produced myriad ...

Alan Ayckbourn's plays are fascinated with doors. His vivid characters bound through them, smartly expose their own foibles, then leap back out with a slam. They exchange focus in ballets of entrance ...

Joplin Little Theatre presents Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn Directed by Chelsie Bennett Absurd Person Singular is a dark 1970s comedy that follows three couples through three wildly ...

The most famous sequence from Hitchcock's "Torn Curtain" is the silent scene in which Paul Newman takes several minutes to kill an East German spy. That's nothing compared with playwright Alan ...

If future Alan Ayckbourn productions seem comparatively pallid, well, it’s his own unhappy fault. In June, the playwright directed his own Private Fears in Public Places, a comic drama about six ...

Absurd Person Singular is a celebration of the play’s 40th birthday, but it has not aged as a piece of theatre. It is in a sense a period piece, dating back to the days when bankers were respectable ...

Alan Ayckbourn may have fallen out of love with the West End in recent years, but this triumphant restoration of his sardonic 1972 Christmas classic Absurd Person Singular shows just how much the West ...