Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE FRSA (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific British playwright and director. He has written and produced as of 2024, 90 full-length...

by Alan Ayckbourn, Stephen Joseph Theatre, (1989) Taking Steps-Revival by Alan Ayckbourn, Stephen Joseph Theatre, (1990) Invisible Friends by Alan Ayckbourn...

Armando Iannucci film The Death of Stalin. He has worked many times with Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, beginning with the part...

actress and singer. She has appeared in several plays by playwright Alan Ayckbourn and in films by Mike Leigh, including Topsy-Turvy, All or Nothing, and...

Relatively Speaking is a 1965 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, originally titled Meet My Father, his first major success. The action of the play...

Playhouse. In 1974, Eric Thompson cast him as the melancholy vet in Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests at Greenwich. A speedy transfer to the West End...

music, and comic books. This led to imaginative adaptations of plays by Alan Ayckbourn, Henri Bernstein and Jean Anouilh, as well as films featuring various...

West End. She then took over a main role, and was talent-spotted by Alan Ayckbourn. Williams's breakthrough performance came in 1991 when she appeared...

The Brontës of Haworth by Alan Ayckbourn Scarborough, North Yorkshire James Feather Family Circles (1970) by Alan Ayckbourn Scarborough, North Yorkshire...

portrayals of teenage characters in the world premieres of two plays by Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough: Geain in Henceforward...

Snake in the Grass is a 2002 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The play is about a middle-aged older sister who returns to the family home where...

Chorus of Disapproval is a 1984 play written by English playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The story follows a young widower, Guy Jones, as he joins an amateur...

and theatre director. She has premièred leading roles written by both Alan Ayckbourn and Stephen Sondheim. On television, she is known for her BAFTA Award...

productions, including the premier of Life of Riley by Alan Ayckbourn. In June 2012 she appeared in Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests at the Liverpool Playhouse...

his The Good Life co-star Penelope Keith in the televised version of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy The Norman Conquests. He also starred as Ralph in 13 episodes...

project and Lloyd Webber subsequently wrote the musical Jeeves with Alan Ayckbourn, who provided the book and lyrics. Jeeves failed to make any impact...

Winter's Tale. His stage debut happened aged 21, when Levy was cast by Alan Ayckbourn as Judd Hirsch’s son in the Herb Gardner stage comedy Conversations...

King is a British stage and television actress known for her role in Alan Ayckbourn's theatre production of GamePlan and as recurring character Sylvia Noble...

Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, from the play Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn. The film starred Pierre Arditi and Sabine Azéma. It won the César Award...

Alan Ayckbourn 1975 – Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray 1976 – Weapons of Happiness by Howard Brenton 1977 – Just Between Ourselves by Alan Ayckbourn 1978...

She is known for her roles in Coronation Street (1990–1992, 1995), I'm Alan Partridge (2002), Ashes to Ashes (2008–2009), Twenty Twelve (2011–2012) and...

Bassett in the original London cast of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn musical Jeeves. She also appeared in French Without Tears at the Little...

Georges Feydeau in France, W. S. Gilbert, Oscar Wilde, Noël Coward, and Alan Ayckbourn in Britain, and Lillian Hellman and Arthur Miller in the US. Writers...

for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Sarah in Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests. Her film roles include The Iron Lady (2011),...

repertory companies. Much of her career has been spent performing in Alan Ayckbourn plays, three of which (Relatively Speaking, Time and Time Again, and...

as it grinds on from one lame set-up to the next. This sort of sub-Alan Ayckbourn trawl might work on stage but never on the big screen, where all the...

frequently associated with the director Peter Hall and the playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The Creeper (St. Martin's Theatre, 1965): Maurice Early Morning (English...

Way Upstream is a play by Alan Ayckbourn. It was first performed, under Ayckbourn's direction, in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, UK, "in the round" at...

Retrieved 25 June 2024. "Review/Theater; Laughing While Crying With Ayckbourn". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 June 2024. "THEATRE / A few words to...

performances were well reviewed, and include: Evelyn in Absent Friends, by Alan Ayckbourn, directed by Judi Farr at the Marian Street Theatre in the Sydney suburb...