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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
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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 written by the Queen Mother's
favourite living playwright, Sir Alan Ayckbourn. "Well, yes," says
Sir Alan, beaming at me like a benevolent gargoyle, "she did come to
a lot of my plays and, of course, she had the garden gnome from Time
and Time Again at the Castle of Mey."
Queen Elizabeth saw one of ...
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Toni Morrison's 'Sula': a satire on binary thinking.
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