Praise for Haunting Julia“A play for today. It touches on the failures of education and parenting, on media pressures and overdoses. Kurt Cobain comes to mind. More universally, Haunting Julia mourns how in adolescence and adulthood, we do our loves wrong.”—Financial Times
Praise for Sugar Daddies“A timely warning about the dangers of role-playing and pretense . . . But the real fascination lies in watching Ayckbourn’s own transformation from social observer to impassioned moralist.”—Guardian
Praise for Drowning on Dry Land“Ayckbourn at the top of his game.”—Guardian“A coruscatingly acid and funny play.”—The Times (London)
Praise for Private Fears in Public Places“Ayckbourn’s construction has a masterly clarity; his writing combines ruthless observation with mature tolerance. Nobody else writing today can create a sense of a complicated little world in 90 minutes, or make banal lives seem so unforgivingly interesting. Listen: it’s a master’s voice.”—Sunday Times (London)
In the theatre, Alan Ayckbourn works, variously, as a stage manager, sound technician, lighting technician, scene-painter, prop maker, actor, writer, and director. He is the author of over fifty plays, most of which received their first performance at the Studio Theatre Company in Scarborough where he spends the greater part of each year directing other people's work. More than half have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or at the Royal Shakespeare Company. They have been translated into over 30 languages, are seen on stage and television throughout the world, and have received many national and international awards. Alan Ayckbourn was appointed a CBE in 1987 and in 1997 received a knighthood for his services to the theatre.
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