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55 ways of making us laugh Profile: Alan Ayckbourn Humour is a serious business to a man whose plays carry uncanny echoes of his personal life.
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The number of plays he's written doesn't quite match his age, but
give him time. This Wednesday Sir Alan Ayckbourn's 53rd play, Comic
Potential, will have its West End premiere; his 55th, House and
Garden, has already been seen at his Scarborough theatre earlier this
year. And there is no sign that Ayckbourn, who is 60, is altering his
usual routine of setting aside a month to write his new play and
finishing it in half that time. But, though his productivity and
commercial success make him t...
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55 ways of making us laugh Profile: Alan Ayckbourn Humour is a serious business to a man whose plays carry uncanny echoes of his personal life.
The Independent - London
; The number of plays he's written doesn't quite match his age, but give him time. This Wednesday Sir Alan Ayckbourn's 53rd play, Comic Potential, will have its West End premiere; his 55th, House and Garden, has already been seen at his Scarborough theatre earlier this year. And there is no sign that
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`Woman' puts Ayckbourn in public's mind
Chicago Sun-Times
; English playwright Alan Ayckbourn has been called the most prolific dramatist in the world, the Shakespeare of London's South Bank, the finest feminist writer in England. He has been compared favorably to such disparate people as the Marx Brothers and Anton Chekhov. But his name is not on the lips
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Alan Ayckbourn interview: At home with the human heart Alan Ayckbourn, 60 today, doesn't do much for critics. The public know s better.
The Independent - London
; Alan Ayckbourn will be surprised if he enjoys his birthday today: "I'm not a sort of Woody Allen, a man who takes rain personally," he says. "But I do have a feeling that you must not celebrate too much. I always prefer giving parties for other people." He is actually Sir Alan, the first playwright
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Sex and Love and the Whole Damn Thing; Men and Women Battle It Out in Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd and Biting Plays
The Washington Post
; Before he won his Oscars for "Schindler's List," Steven Spielberg, who was in a position to know, aphorized, "Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner." Perhaps this is the reason Alan Ayckbourn's play-writing genius has never been widely recognized. Oh, he gets good reviews. Critics
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Take two Ayckbourn plays fit comfortably at Goodman
Chicago Sun-Times
; `House' & `Garden' Opens Monday, to March 4 Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn Tickets, $16-$45 (312) 443-3800 When playwright Alan Ayckbourn penned his dual plays "House" and "Garden," he knew there would be few theaters in the world that would have the facilities to produce them. The new Goodman
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Ayckbourn: 'Singular' sensation: Brit scribe beloved in Blighty but still seeks auds in U.S.(Legit)(Alan Ayckbourn)
Variety
; The disparity is unique: No other British playwright is so feted at home and so unrecognized in the U.S. Alan Ayckbourn at one point had five comedies running concurrently in the West End, has written a further 66 plays (plus more than 20 revues and children's plays) and is enough of a theatrical
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MR A'S AMAZING RECOVERY First, Alan Ayckbourn lost all feeling in his left leg. Then his arm. His reaction? 'I don't need all this. I have a play to rehearse.' He talks to Alan Strachan about his stroke and its aftermath
The Sunday Telegraph London
; MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION SEEM an especially dim lot among the crowded gallery of characters in Alan Ayckbourn's plays. Take the sad GP Uncle Bernard in that jet-black scrutiny of a family Christmas, Season's Greetings, who manages to pronounce a visitor dead only for the 'corpse' to groan
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Ayckbourn at the double Alan Ayckbourn's cast will need to be superfit, running between two productions playing simultaneously at the National, reports ALAN STRACHAN
Evening Standard - London
; I NEARLY walked past Sir Alan Ayckbourn, in earnest conversation with Michael Frayn ("a covey of playwrights," said Ayckbourn) backstage at the National Theatre. Until recently he tended to be - how shall I say? - on the generous side of portly, but after the loss of an impressive number of stone
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A knight at the theatre Alan Ayckbourn is renowned for his acute observations of Middle England but, he insists, 'I don't write about real people'. The inspiration, he says, comes from childhood rows and his mendacious mother
The Sunday Telegraph London
; On Tuesday last, after the Queen Mother's state funeral, I went to the Aldwych Theatre off the Strand and had a good laugh. Queen Elizabeth would have approved. The play was a revival of Bedroom Farce, starring two of Her Majesty's favourite comic actors (Richard Briers and June Whitfield) and
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The swan of Scarborough. (playwright Alan Ayckbourn)
The Economist (US)
; Make them laugh, or make them think? The Swan of Scarborough AT 50, Alan Ayckbourn is arguably the most successful contemporary British playwright. With 37 plays to his credit, he may also be the most prolific. From his base in the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough, where he is artistic
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