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Alan Ayckbourn is arguably Britain’s most popular playwright and ‘Absurd Person Singular’, to be performed this March at Southport’s Little Theatre, is one of his most popular plays. An inspired comedy dealing with marital tensions in the kitchen, Absurd Person Singular is easily as fresh and provocative today as it was when it was first written nearly forty years ago. Too Friendly Theatre Company will be performing the show from the 8th till the 10th March 2012. Tickets are just £7.50 and can be obtained from the advanced booking line on 01704 227245.
The play premiered in Scarborough in 1972, and received the Evening Standard Best Comedy Award for its London debut the following year. It has also enjoyed rave reviews and multiple awards over the years, not unlike the ‘Too Friendly’ themselves.
Absurd Person Singular os a wonderfully written play as you would expect from Alan Ayckbourn and is both hugely funny but also very sad too. All of which means that it would be absurd to miss a chance to get to see this comedy classic. Book your tickets now!
About Alan Ayckbourn
2011 marks Alan’s 50th year as a theatre director and his 52nd as a playwright. He has spent his life in theatre, rarely if ever tempted by television or film, which perhaps explains why he continues to be so prolific. To date he has written 75 plays and his work has been translated into over 35 languages, is performed on stage and television throughout the world and has won countless awards.
Major successes include Relatively Speaking, How the Other Half Loves, Absurd Person Singular, Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval and The Norman Conquests. The National Theatre recently revived his 1980 play Season’s Greetings to great acclaim and this year alone has seen off-West End productions of Snake in the Grass, Drowning on Dry Land and Haunting Julia. In 2009, he retired as Artistic Director of the Stephen Joseph, where almost all his plays have been and continue to be first staged. Holding the post for 37 years, he still feels that perhaps his greatest achievement was the establishment of this company’s first permanent home when the two auditoria complex fashioned from a former Odeon Cinema opened in 1996.
In recent years, he has been inducted into American Theatre’s Hall of Fame, received the 2010 Critics’ Circle Award for Services to the Arts and became the first British playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Special Lifetime Achievement Awards. He was knighted in 1997 for services to the theatre.
Source: Alan Ayckbourn’s official website www.alanayckbourn.net.
