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Beyond farce

Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman in Mind

John Hudson makes a case for more serious consideration of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedies, showing how Woman in Mind uses farce to provide lasting insights

Stuart Fox as Gerald and Janie Dee as Susan in Woman in Mind (The Vaudeville Theatre, 2009)
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AQA (B) Literature: ‘Dramatic genres: comedy’

It is often asserted that Alan Ayckbourn’s plays are second only to those by Shakespeare in the frequency of their performance throughout the world. Ayckbourn remains, after more than 50 years of play-writing, one of the major forces in British theatre. Although recent pieces have not enjoyed the same success as those he wrote in the 1970s to 1990s, he continues to produce at least one new play a year, almost always premiered in Scarborough where for many years he was the theatre’s artistic director.

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