Theatre might sometimes make us climb the walls, yet it doesn't often invite us to write on them. But Where's My Seat? isn't your average night of drama... more
The acting and Andrew Hall's direction tend to be as stolid as the script. If it didn't have his name all over the publicity material, we'd be hard pushed to know that Haunting Julia was by Alan Ayckbourn... more
London theatre hailed a new generation of young playwrights today in Olivier Award nominations which also recognise one of the starriest years in West End history... more
Sir Alan Ayckbourn's comic trilogy The Norman Conquests has extended London theatre's invasion of Broadway, opening to phenomenal acclaim in New York... more
Sir Alan Ayckbourn, one of Britain's most popular and prolific playwrights, is set to do more work in London after the huge success of his Norman Conquests trilogy at the Old Vic... more
Woman In Mind is the latest Alan Ayckbourn play to be staged in the West End. Make sure you see it and treat yourself to a great value dinner.
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Revisiting your Seventies childhood is never rewarding. The frizzy perm, National Health glasses, the terrible moment when, aged 11, I realised that my mother had made up my school dress using a maternity sewing pattern (we were so poor, I had to wear it all summer with one of those ghastly elasticated nurse's belts). Just don't get me started... more
This assured revival of Alan Ayckbourn's masterful 1973 trilogy, showing in London for the first time in 34 years, usefully reminds us to take the laughter very seriously.... more
Sir Alan Ayckbourn has launched an attack on the Hollywood invasion of the British stage saying that most film stars could "barely be heard beyond row three".... more
The Lightning Play is an indigestible, drearily derivative theatrical cocktail set at Halloween in which the spiritual and material worlds overlap.... more
Antony Neilson's Realism is like an Alan Ayckbourn comedy seen through the doped perspective of someone under the influence of a class-A drug, says Nicholas de Jongh.... more
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