Alan Ayckbourn's best works are incisive dissections of class and coupledom in Britain, gently brushed by melancholy. But neglect that darker strain and some of the earlier comedies, especially, can ...

Ayckbourn is a 2010 Tony Award winner for Lifetime Achievement and the author of over 70 plays. Absurd Person Singular marks the first Alan Ayckbourn play presented at Barrington. Absurd Person ...

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Alan Ayckbourn often has been termed the British Neil Simon due to his prodigious output of plays in a quirky comical vein. South Coast Repertory has yet to mount a Simon show, but has produced myriad ...

Michael Cumpsty (Ronald), Mary Birdsong (Marion), Scott Drummond (Geoffrey) and Liz Wisan (Eva) in Absurd Person Singular at Two River Theater. Alan Ayckbourne’s “Absurd Person Singular,” now playing ...

PITTSFIELD, Mass. -- The Christmas Eve party. It's made for drama. The drinks. The false pretenses. The humbug. And, of course, the chipper horse's hind end who wants to make everyone happy.

The most famous sequence from Hitchcock's "Torn Curtain" is the silent scene in which Paul Newman takes several minutes to kill an East German spy. That's nothing compared with playwright Alan ...

1975 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Larry Blyden 1975 Tony Awards Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play Geraldine Page 1975 Tony Awards ...

Joplin Little Theatre presents Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn Directed by Chelsie Bennett Absurd Person Singular is a dark 1970s comedy that follows three couples through three wildly ...

Absurd Person Singular, Will Act for Food, at WNEP Theater. This Alan Ayckbourn social satire has so much going for it–verbal wit, physical comedy, and the silliest suicide attempt ever–that it’s ...

Absurd Person Singular is a celebration of the play’s 40th birthday, but it has not aged as a piece of theatre. It is in a sense a period piece, dating back to the days when bankers were respectable ...

If future Alan Ayckbourn productions seem comparatively pallid, well, it’s his own unhappy fault. In June, the playwright directed his own Private Fears in Public Places, a comic drama about six ...