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     Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.216 |
Anyone familiar with the work of Alan Ayckbourn? Last week and this week we visited his theatre in Scarborough and saw two of his supernatural plays, both of which were superbly chilling: Snake in the Grass and Haunting Julia. There's another soon called Life and Beth. An unmissable experience if you ever get chance to see them on tour. This kind of stuff in the theatre is more intimate and effective than on film. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
Alan Ayckbourn is the most perfomed living playwright. He was also the first person to play he role of Cook (a psychopathic senile old woman) in my favourite one act play - Little Brother Little Sister by David Campton. I've now played the part of Cook in 3 separate productions. It's the most fun I've ever had on stage. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.216 |
A lot of Ayckbourn is sinister, despite its deceptively comedic surface. He's quite unique. Check out a play called WOMAN IN MIND which shows its main character going insane from her point of view - that is, the audience perceives what she perceives as her mind disintegrates. Powerful stuff. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.161.241.208 |
If you like stories about ghosts in the theatre, read Reggie Oliver. |