VINTAGE CLASSICS : THREE PLAYS – ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR ABSENT FRIENDS BEDROOM FARCE – ALAN AYCKBOURN

What is remarkable about Alan Ayckbourn s comedy is that it contrives to be simultaneously hilarious and harrowing. Literally, it is agonisingly funny Daily Telegraph In Three Plays Ayckbourn s perfectly pitched dialogue slices into the soul of suburbia. The settings are simple – a kitchen, a bedroom, a party – but the relationships between the husbands and wives are more complicated. Fraught relationships are exposed with humour, bathos and a sharp understanding of human nature.