LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alan ayckbourn

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  • Family Album
    Alan Ayckbourn
    'Now we’re leaving... all the skeletons are suddenly jumping out of their cupboards.'A moving-in day, 1952.A birthday party, 1992.A moving-out day, 2022.Join RAF veteran John and housewife Peggy as they proudly move into the first home they can really call their own; daughter Sandra, franticallynegotiating the challenges of a 10-year-old’s birthday party without her AWOL husban...
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    20,89 €

  • The Girl Next Door
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Placing wartime and lockdown life side-by-side, Alan Ayckbourn’s 85th play is a touching, tender and, of course, funny reflection on the ability of love to rise above adversity and reach across the years.Veteran actor Rob Hathaway, stuck at home during the summer of 2020 with only his sensible older sister for company, has little to do but relive his glory days. One day Rob spo...
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    21,23 €

  • A BRIEF HISTORY OF WOMEN
    Alan Ayckbourn
    A comedy in four parts about an unremarkable man and the remarkable women who loved him. From his first encounters as a young man in 1925 to an unexpected reunion late in life, Anthony Spates’ romantic progress is charted against the backdrop of an equally remarkable old manor house in this hilarious and gently touching comedy. ...
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    20,33 €

  • Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Adrian is about to introduce his fianc�e Grace to his parents at a birthday party, but they are worried that Grace doesn’t know about Adrian’s alleged reputation. As more birthdays unfold, the truth about the suburban closet Lothario is revealed... ...
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    19,03 €

  • Better Off Dead
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Irascible author Algy Waterbridge is hard at work on his thirty-third crime novel. While Algy’s wife is getting more forgetful, and his PA frequently oversteps the mark, the constant interruptions come to a head with an unfortunate newspaper interview. As Algy’s fictional characters take over, the lines between fiction and reality become blurred.A comedy of confusion about a gr...
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    19,07 €

  • No Knowing
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Elspeth and Arthur are celebrating forty years of quiet, safe, unspectacular, ordinary marriage. Or so most of the guests attending their anniversary party are led to believe. But knowing her and knowing him as they do, their son and daughter know differently. ...
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    18,39 €

  • CONSUMING PASSIONS
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Melanie believes she has foreseen the future. But has she really? Or is it all in her mind?True or false, she has seen events which threaten the life of one she secretly loves, and she feels they are in terrible danger.What can she possibly do or say to prevent things happening, and who will even believe her? ...
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    18,42 €

  • Private Fears in Public Places
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Six people with six very separate lives are strangely linked by circumstance. Does Nicola still love Dan? Can Stewart be on the verge of an office romance? Will Imogen ever find true love? Does Ambrose have a secret life? And what on earth is Charlotte up to? ...
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    20,26 €

  • Sugar Daddies
    Alan Ayckbourn
    After a hit and run accident, naive country girl Sasha comes to the aid of ex-villain Val who is using a bogus identity as an ex-policeman. Sasha befriends Val and welcomes him into her home; overcome by her generosity and childlike innocence, he showers Sasha with lavish gifts whilst his rival Ashley, knowing of Val’s sordid past, seeks to protect Sasha from this potential dan...
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    20,32 €

  • Roundelay
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Five interrelated one-act plays, written to be performed in any order determined randomly prior to performance, looking at the lives of a judge, agent, politician, budding star and novelist. ...
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    20,20 €

  • Arrivals and Departures
    Alan Ayckbourn
    A terrorist code-named Cerastes is on the loose, and an undercover anti-terrorist squad have planned a sting to capture him as he steps off a train at a London station.The operation, led by the buffoonish Acting Major Quentin Sexton, has drawn in two outsiders - Ez and Barry. Perfect strangers as the play begins, their time waiting for the trap to be sprung gives them the chanc...
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    20,30 €

  • Farcicals
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Chlo� With Love - Teddy’s marriage to Lottie is going through a difficult period. Does he still love Lottie? Does Lottie still love him? Cue next door neighbours Penny and Reggie to the rescue. Penny weighing in to help Lottie and Reggie resolving to help his best friend to resist temptation. But with the arrival of the voluptuous Chlo� all their best laid schemes are put to th...
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    18,70 €

  • Hero’s Welcome
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Though he’s lauded in the media as a military hero, Murray is remembered less fondly by many in his old village. He left amidst rumours of arson, unplanned pregnancy and stealing his best friend’s girlfriend. So when he returns, seventeen years later, with a new wife in tow, he creates trouble from the beginning - not least with his ex-fiancee. As more secrets emerge and old sc...
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    19,06 €

  • Haunting Julia
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Julia Lukin, a musical prodigy, committed suicide twelve years ago and now memories of her haunt the three men closest to her. Her father, Joe, has never come to terms with her death, and in the Julia Lukin Music Centre, he meets with a psychic, Ken, and Julia’s boyfriend, Andy - the last person to see her alive, in hope of finding some answers. The men meet in Julia’s old bedr...
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    18,88 €

  • Life of Riley
    Alan Ayckbourn
    'As perceptive as ever ... Ayckbourn has once again achieved a satisfyingly rich, tragi-comic complexity' Daily Telegraph ...
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    19,07 €

  • Confusions
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Confusions, a series of plays for four-to-five actors, typifies Alan Ayckbourn’s particular brand of black comedy on human behaviour. The plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical, but underlying each is the echoing problem of profound loneliness. From a devoted and isolated mother, to her unfaithful travelling salesman husband, through a solicitous waiter to we...
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    20,31 €

  • Time and Time Again - A Comedy
    Alan Ayckbourn
    The suburban house of the Bakers’ adjoins a recreation field, which is useful since football and cricket play a large part in the story. Peter, who works for Graham, brings his fiancee to the house and Graham, as usual, makes a bee-line for her. However, it is Mrs. Baker’s brother, Leonard, to whom Joan strays. Leonard, poetic, a fumbler, who moons around holding conversations ...
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    18,75 €

  • Neighbourhood Watch
    Alan Ayckbourn
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    21,26 €

  • Life and Beth
    Alan Ayckbourn
    It’s Christmas, and Beth Timms is mourning the recent death of her health and safety officer husband, Gordon. Beth’s sister-in- law Connie and son Martin have come to stay, determined to ensure that she should have a stress-free Christmas, but between Connie’s drinking problem and Martin’s unspeaking and emotionally volatile girlfriend Ella, their intentions prove to be short-l...
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    18,91 €

  • If I Were You
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Characters: 3 male, 2 female Composite set: part of a bedroom, sitting-room, eating-area in kitchenThe Rodales seem like an ordinary family, but beneath the surface things are beginning to crack. Jill and Mal have lost the spark in their marriage, their son Sam resents his father and their daughter Chrissie has recently become a mum and is dealing with marriage issues of her ow...
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    17,84 €

  • If I Were You
    Alan Ayckbourn
    The Rodales seem like an ordinary family, but beneath the surface things are beginning to crack. Jill and Mal have lost the spark in their marriage, their son Sam resents his father and their daughter Chrissie has recently become a mum and is dealing with marriage issues of her own. And while they all share advice on how others should live their lives, nobody is really taking i...
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    18,91 €

  • My Wonderful Day
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Characters: 2 male, 4 femaleComedyWinnie is nearly nine. Her mum, Laverne, is second-generation Afro-Caribbean and heavily pregnant but continues with her cleaning job since her husband left while she dreams of moving the family back to Martinique. Tuesdays are special: Laverne insists that Winnie speaks only French (in preparation for Martinique) and today is Tuesday - not her...
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    17,38 €

  • My Wonderful Day
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Winnie is nearly nine. Her mum, Laverne, is second-generation Afro-Caribbean and heavily pregnant but continues with her cleaning job since her husband left while she dreams of moving the family back to Martinique. Tuesdays are special: Laverne insists that Winnie speaks only French (in preparation for Martinique) and today is Tuesday - not her usual day to clean at the north L...
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    18,48 €

  • A Small Family Business
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Alan Ayckbourn ComedyCharacters: 7 male, 5 female Multiple Interior Scenes England’s master of satire is in top form in this comic morality play which was triumphantly presented by the National Theatre of Great Britain. Jack McCraken has the opportunity of a lifetime: he is the new head of a family furniture business and believes he will initiate a new age of honesty and integ...
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    21,03 €

  • Awaking Beauty
    Alan Ayckbourn / Denis King
    Ever wondered what else happened to Sleeping Beauty when she finally woke up in the 21st century? Alan Ayckbourn provides the answer with this alternative seasonal fare in the musical Awaking Beauty.5 women, 5 men ...
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    19,09 €

  • The Crafty Art of Playmaking
    Alan Ayckbourn
    For the first time, Alan Ayckbourn shares all of his tricks of the playwright’s trade. From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing, the book provides a complete primer for the newcomer and a refresher for the more experienced. Written in Ayckbourn’s signature style that combines humor, seriousness, and heady air of theatrical sophistication that Noel Coward would envy, T...
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    29,71 €

  • Improbable Fiction
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Six aspiring authors meet on a winter’s evening to discuss their work. Among them are writers of historical romances and children’s literature who are finding it difficult to start writing, and a crime writer who can’t stop. A creator of extremely complicated science fiction, a librettist without a musical partner and the Writer’s Circle chairman, who produces instruction bookl...
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    20,29 €

  • Confusions
    Alan Ayckbourn
    A student edition of five one-act plays by Britain’s most popular playwright. Ayckbourn’s series of plays for 4-5 actors typify his black comedies of human behaviour. First produced in 1976, the plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical, but underlying each is the problem of loneliness. The Mother Figure shows a mother unable to escape from baby talk; in The Dri...
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    18,90 €

  • Comic Potential - A Play
    Alan Ayckbourn
    A hilarious satire of television and a touching romantic comedy, it begins in a television studio where a hospital soap opera is being taped. One actor starts speaking gibberish; he is an 'actoid' a robot and his programming is off kilter. Adam, the young nephew of the producer and an aspiring writer who worships the director (once a great movie director and now a broken down h...
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    20,26 €

  • Drowning On Dry Land
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Charlie Conrad is a celebrity. His talent? He hasn’t got one; the nation took him to their hearts for very publicly being unable to do anything competently. One fateful day, however, Charlie meets Marsha, and his marriage and career go into freefall...Large flexible cast ...
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    18,54 €


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