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Alan Ayckbourn Plays:

Alan Ayckbourn Plays: "Ernie's Incredible Illucinations". "Invisible Friends", "My Very Own Story", "This is Where We Came in"."The Champion of ... Own Story", "This Is Where We Came In" Vol 2

by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

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A treat to read and a joy to perform, this second collection of Alan Ayckbourn's work is a cornucopia of some of his wonderfully inventive children's plays. From the story of the teenage Lucy in Invisible Friends who revives her childhood imaginary friend when things get difficult at home, onto the storytellers in My Very Own Story and This Is Where We Came In and, finally, to young Ernie who 'illucinates' all sorts of wild and weird happenings with astonishing results.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 484
 Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 02 Feb 1998
ISBN 10: 0571194575
ISBN 13: 9780571194575
Book Overview: Alan Ayckbourn Plays 2 includes Ernie's Incredible Illucinations, Invisible Friends, This is Where We Came In, My Very Own Story and The Champion of Paribanou.

Media Reviews
Invisible Friends It's a tribute to Ayckbourn's later work, breaking free as it does from the constraints of naturalism, that it taps primitive fantasies and fears that children can easily respond to... -- Independent This Is Where We Came In With wry discipline the play celebrates artistic anarchy, ruptures in convention, the rejuvenation of form. This is the territory of experimental fiction...the sort of thing you expect form Fowles, Burgess or the French...No adult, with or without children...should miss it. -- Daily Telegraph My Very Own Story There aren't enough good plays for very young audiences but in the past few years Ayckbourn has added two or three new classics...It sounds like Stoppard for tots and it is, complete with exuberant wordplay. -- Guardian
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.