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Role Play
By: Alan Ayckbourn
To Book: 020 8949 5363 |
The Duchess Theatre
Catherine Street,
London WC2B 5LA
tube: Covent garden
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In Short:
Damsels in distress
en masse.
In Full:
Alan Ayckbourn has
penned a trilogy of three related plays. Game Plan, Flat Spin
and Roleplay transfer from the Stephen Joseph theatre in Scarborough,
and prove that the playwright is nothing if not ambitious.
True to their title, the three
plays look at women in potentially compromising positions. Game
Plan concerns a single parent under financial pressure whose
daughter's efforts to help wreak havoc. Flat Spin looks at a
date that goes horribly wrong as a stranger lures a girl back
to his flat. And Roleplay turns a celebratory dinner into pure
chaos as parents-in-law-to-be encounter an unexpected guest.
But the plays work as self
sufficient pieces of entertainment. They are performed by the
same company of actors on the same set and and boast Ayckbourn's
trademark economy of wit and style. Like Tom Stoppard's current
trilogy, the historical Coast of Utopia, Ayckbourn's three plays
can be seen in one marathon sitting on Saturday or on their own
during the week. Ayckbourn's threesome, however, promise more
modern drama.
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