Playwright Alan Ayckbourn has no intention of resting on his past successes. He celebrates his 80th birthday this year with a new play – his 83rd – called
Wiltshire Creative will premiere Barney Norris’ explosive new adaptation of Lorca’s Blood Wedding, retold in present-day Wiltshire, at Salisbury Playhouse in February as part of its Autumn/ Winter
It’s party time at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Beverly is dishing out the Blue Nun and cheesy nibbles to the sounds of Demis Roussos. The theatre’s autumn season
Alan Ayckbourn’s futuristic, two-part, dystopian nightmare, The Divide, comes together for a run at London’s Old Vic this February. Now being staged as a single production, The Divide,
Less than 200 days ahead of its 200th birthday, The Old Vic marks the launch of its bicentenary, and Matthew Warchus’ third year as artistic director, with a
It sounds a feat of endurance but nothing could be further from the truth. It is a sheer delight watching all three parts of Alan Ayckbourn’s sparkling comedy,
Alan Ayckbourn launches his 81st stage production this autumn at his spiritual home, Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre. A Brief History of Women, written and directed by Ayckbourn,
Jonathan Broadbent and Trystan Gravelle lead an ensemble cast for a revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests at Chichester Festival Theatre this summer. And, for the first
Drowning on Dry Land, Alan Ayckbourn’s coruscatingly acidic and funny play, is an ode to failure, or rather to the English fascination with failure. It tells the story
A summer season of plays celebrating the often extraordinary stories of people leading ordinary lives has been announced at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre. The season
Alan Ayckbourn’s 1987 comedy Henceforward…comes to Northampton’s Royal & Derngate Theatre, this February in a new production directed by the author, one of Britain’s most successful and prolific
Alan Ayckbourn captured the spirit of an age when he wrote Relatively Speaking. It was 1967, and the height of the Swinging Sixties, when free love, the Pill