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The Things We Do for Love

The Things We Do for Love

by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

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Synopsis

Ayckbourn's 52nd full-length play is a tragicomedy in which people on all three levels of a house have fantasies and deep-seated misconceptions about each other and themselves.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 96
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 02 Mar 1998
ISBN 10: 0571194451
ISBN 13: 9780571194452

Media Reviews
A cruel and hilarious masterpiece of tragic comedy and comic tragedy...On all three levels of the house, people have fantasies and deep-seated misconceptions about each other and themselves, and Ayckbourn pieces through their carapace with the precision of a brain surgeon, releasing hideous pain and grateful, aching, embarrassed laughter in equal proportions. He is the only playwright I know who can combine ribald humour with the cruelty of Seneca. -- Sunday Times
Author Bio
Alan Ayckbourn was born in London in 1939 to a violinist father and a mother who was a writer. He left school at seventeen with two 'A' levels and went straight into the theatre. Two years in regional theatre as an actor and stage manager led in 1959 to the writing of his first play, The Square Cat, for Scarborough's Theatre in the Round at the instigation of his then employer and subsequent mentor, Stephen Joseph. Some 75 plays later, his work has been translated into over 35 languages, is performed on stage and television throughout the world and has won countless awards. There have been English and French screen adaptations, the most notable being Alain Resnais' fine film of Private Fears in Public Places. Major successes include Relatively Speaking, How the Other Half Loves, Absurd Person Singular, Bedroom Farce, A Chorus of Disapproval, The Norman Conquests, A Small Family Business, Henceforward ..., Comic Potential, Things We Do For Love, and Life of Riley. Surprises was first presented at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, and subsequently at the the Minerva Theatre, Chichester in 2012. In 2009, he retired as Artistic Director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, where almost all his plays have been and continue to be first staged, after 37 years in the post. Knighted in 1997 for services to the theatre, he 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.