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Alan Ayckbourn


Born
in Hampstead, London, England, The United Kingdom
April 12, 1939

Genre
Comedy, Science Fiction & Fantasy


Sir Alan Ayckbourn is a popular and prolific English playwright. He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance. More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967. Major successes include Absurd Person Singular (1975), The Norman Conquests trilogy (1973), Bedroom Farce (1975), Just Between Ourselves (1976), A Chorus of Disapproval (1984), Woman in Mind (1985), A Small Family ...more

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Average rating: 3.67 · 3,852 ratings · 432 reviews · 175 distinct works • Similar authors
The Norman Conquests: A Tri...
4.06 avg rating — 550 ratings — published 1973 — 21 editions
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Absurd Person Singular - A ...
3.61 avg rating — 306 ratings — published 1974 — 12 editions
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The Crafty Art of Playmaking
3.92 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions
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Woman in Mind
3.89 avg rating — 204 ratings — published 1986 — 10 editions
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Three Plays: Absurd Person ...
3.72 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 1975 — 13 editions
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Bedroom Farce: A Comedy In ...
3.40 avg rating — 158 ratings — published 1977
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A Small Family Business
3.10 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 1987 — 10 editions
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CONFUSIONS
3.63 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 1974 — 19 editions
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Absent Friends
3.33 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 1975 — 10 editions
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Comic Potential: A Play
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“As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.”
― Alan Ayckbourn
tags: sanity, writers, writing
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“In the end, you can always convince yourself that a version of the truth is the truth itself.”
― Alan Ayckbourn, Communicating Doors
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“My mother used to say, Delia if sex ever rears its ugly head, close your eyes before you see the rest of it.”
― Alan Ayckbourn, Bedroom Farce: A Comedy In Two Acts
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