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Three plays

Alan Ayckbourn

1975229 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1975
first published
  • 1975Grove Press · 307 pages · ENG
  • 1975Grove Press, inc. · 307 pages · ENG
  • 1977Chatto & Windus · 229 pages · ENGISBN 9780701122034
  • 1979Grove Press : distributed by Random House · 229 pages · ENGISBN 9780802142443
  • 1979Grove Press · 229 pagesISBN 9780394170831
  • 1979Penguin Books Ltd · 256 pagesISBN 9780140481501
  • 1994Grove Press · 229 pages · ENGISBN 9780802131577

"A scathing comedy of social striving in the suburbs, Absurd Person Singular follows the fortunes of three couples who turn up in each other's kitchens on three successive Christmases, to hilarious and devastating effect. In Absent Friends, Diana and Paul host a tea party for Colin, recently returned to England after the tragic drowning of his fiancée. But Colin proves impervious to their awkward attempts to console him as he unwittingly touches every raw nerve in the troubled lives of his old friends. The action of Bedroom Farce unfolds simultaneously--and uproariously--in the onstage bedrooms of three couples all in some way connected to an utterly self-absorbed fourth couple who heedlessly intrude on their friends' privacy, leaving chaos in their wake."--P. [4] of cover.

How it reads

Character focusSingle lead
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