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'A student edition of five one-act plays by Britain''s most popular playwright. Ayckbourn''s series of plays for 4-5 actors typify his black comedies of human behaviour. The plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical, but underlying each is the problem of loneliness. The Mother Figure shows a mother unable to escape from baby talk; in The Drinking Companion an absentee husband attempts seduction without success; in Between Mouthfuls, a waiter oversees a fraught dinner encounter. A garden party gets out of hand in Gosforth''s Fete whilst A Talk in the Park is a revue style curtain call piece for the five actors. Whether the comedies concern marital conflict, infidelity or motherhood and take place on a park bench or at a village fete, the characters are familiar and their cries for help instantly recognisable. Principally he is respected as a radical re-inventor of form Dominic Dromgoole.'
| ISBN-13 | 9780413532701 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0413532704 |
| Weight | 0.18 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.00 x 0.25 x 7.50 In |
| List Price | $9.95 |
| Edition | 1st Edition |
| Format | - |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 128 pages |
| Publisher | Heinemann |
| Published On | 1988-05-27 |
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