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Alan Ayckbourn

Theater Review” “Intimate Exchanges” — Semi-furious Comic Froth

It’s good fun and, for a while at least, it’s interesting to watch the actors fulfill the play’s impish demands.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Alan Ayckbourn, Central Square Theater, David Greenham, Intimate Exchanges, Nora Theatre Company, Olivia D'Ambrosio

Theater Review: Huntington Theatre Company’s “Bedroom Farce” — Sleepytime

There’s nothing here to challenge the status quo, just an amiable ‘sex’ comedy about characters who aren’t getting any.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Alan Ayckbourn, Bedroom Farce, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Maria Aitken

Fuse Theater Review: “Intimate Exchanges” — A Comedy of Possibilities

In many ways, Alan Ayckbourn in Intimate Exchanges has concocted the perfect recipe for a company like the Peterborough Players.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Alan Ayckbourn, Gus Kaikkonen, Intimate Exchanges, Peterborough Players

Theater Review: An Exuberant and Dark “Absurd Person Singular”

Alan Ayckbourn’s Absurd Person Singular is a comedy of total narcissism — belly-laugh jokes accompanied by a cold cruelty.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Absurd Person Singular, Alan Ayckbourn, Gus Kaikkonen, Jim Kates, Peterborough Players

Theater Review: A Delightful Turn “Round and Round the Garden”

British playwright Alan Ayckbourn does not build gag machines that spit out one-liners. He creates finely etched characters whose humor is rooted in their befuddled behavior and personalities.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Alan Ayckbourn, Eric C Engel, Gloucester Stage Company, GSC, Round and Round the Garden, The Norman Conquests

Theater Review: Theatrical Time Machines — Wild Swans and Time of My Life

Both productions play around with chronology in order to show the dark side of history, to unmask convenient illusions of social or personal well-being by juxtaposing the myopia of the past with the payback of the future.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater Tagged: Alan Ayckbourn, American Repertory Theater, Jung Chang, Time of My Life, Wild Swans, Zeitgeist Stage Company

Theater Review: Gloucester Stage Company Tries The Impossible

Now why, you might ask. Why is there no reaction? Why does everyone involved, chose to ignore the scandal? Because, playwright Alan Ayckbourn would say, that is how most of us are. To paraphrase “Hamlet”: We rather bear the troubles we know, than — by opposing them — create even bigger ones.

By: Peter-Adrian Cohen Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Alan Ayckbourn, Eric Engel, Gloucester Stage Company, Living Together

Theater Review: Edward Albee’s Animal Talk

The Zeitgeist Stage Company production has made me rethink Edward Albee’s HOMELIFE to the extent that the couple, well played by Peter Brown and Christine Power, generate a loving bond that adds some welcome tension (and humor) to the revelations of free-floating anxiety and confusion.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Theater Tagged: Alan Ayckbourn, At Home At The Zoo, David J. Miller, Edward Albee, Homelife, The Zoo Story, Zeitgeist Stage Company

Theater Review Roundup: Taking in London Stages

Reviews of eight stage productions in London, with two terrific shows noted: American dramatist Bruce Norris’s powerful study of racial relations, Clybourne Park, and Alan Ayckbourn’s 1980 farce Season’s Greetings. Another winner on the West End, the critically acclaimed War Horse, comes to New York next week. By Joann Green Breuer Penelope by Enda Walsh […]

By: Joann Green Breuer Filed Under: Theater Tagged: Alan Ayckbourn, An Evening with Demensia, Becky Shaw, Bruce Norris, Clybourne Park, Druid Theatre, Gina Gionfriddo, Greenland, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Juliet Stevenson, London Stage, National-Theatre, Penelope, Peter Hall, Peter-DuBois, Rebecca Hall, Richard Bean, Royal Court Theatre, Season's Greetings, The Heretic, Twelfth Night, War Horse, West End, William-Shakespeare

Theater Review: Ayckbourn’s Comedy of Desire

Boredom is the root of all evil . . . The influence that it exerts is altogether magical, except that it is not the influence of attraction, but of repulsion. — Søren Kierkegaard, “Either/Or” Private Fears in Public Places by Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by David J. Miller. Set design by Miller. Staged by the Zeitgeist […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Alan Ayckbourn, Boston, comedy, English, Private Fears in Public Places, Theater, Zeitgeist Stage Company

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