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...
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by Alan Ayckbourn, Stephen Joseph Theatre, (1989) Taking Steps-Revival by Alan Ayckbourn, Stephen Joseph Theatre, (1990) Invisible Friends by Alan Ayckbourn...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The Brontës of Haworth by Alan Ayckbourn Scarborough, North Yorkshire James Feather Family Circles (1970) by Alan Ayckbourn Scarborough, North Yorkshire...
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portrayals of teenage characters in the world premieres of two plays by Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough: Geain in Henceforward...
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Snake in the Grass (play) (category Plays by Alan Ayckbourn)
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...
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A Chorus of Disapproval (play) (category Plays by Alan Ayckbourn)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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project and Lloyd Webber subsequently wrote the musical Jeeves with Alan Ayckbourn, who provided the book and lyrics. Jeeves failed to make any impact...
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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...
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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...
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Smoking/No Smoking (category Films based on works by Alan Ayckbourn)
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...
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Alan Ayckbourn 1975 – Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray 1976 – Weapons of Happiness by Howard Brenton 1977 – Just Between Ourselves by Alan Ayckbourn 1978...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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),...
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repertory companies. Much of her career has been spent performing in Alan Ayckbourn plays, three of which (Relatively Speaking, Time and Time Again, and...
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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...
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frequently associated with the director Peter Hall and the playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The Creeper (St. Martin's Theatre, 1965): Maurice Early Morning (English...
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Way Upstream (category Plays by Alan Ayckbourn)
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...
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Retrieved 25 June 2024. "Review/Theater; Laughing While Crying With Ayckbourn". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 June 2024. "THEATRE / A few words to...
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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...
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