Alan Ayckbourn

Plays authored

• Absent Friends
• Absurd Person Singular
• Affairs in a Tent
• Bedroom Farce
• By Jeeves
• A Chorus of Disapproval
• Comic Potential
• Communicating Doors
• Confusions
• Damsels in Distress
• Family Circles
• Flat Spin
• Game Plan
• Garden
• Gizmo
• Haunting Julia
• Henceforward…
• House
• House & Garden
• How the Other Half Loves
• Improbable Fiction
• Intimate Exchanges
• Invisible Friends
• Jeeves
• Joking Apart
• Just Between Ourselves
• Living Together
• Man of the Moment
• Me, Myself and I
• Mixed Doubles
• Mr A’s Amazing Maze Plays
• Mr What-Not
• Mr Whatnot
• My Wonderful Day
• The Norman Conquests
• Relatively Speaking
• Revengers’ Comedies
• Role Play
• Round and Round the Garden
• Season’s Greetings
• Sisterly Feelings
• A Small Family Business
• Snake in the Grass
• Sugar Daddies
• Table Manners
• Taking Steps
• Ten Times Table
• Things We Do for Love
• Time and Time Again
• Time of My Life
• Way Upstream
• Whenever
• Wildest Dreams
• Woman in Mind

Past productions

• director, Henceforward… 22^nd – 25^th February 2017, Cambridge Arts Theatre.
• Director, Time of My Life, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough in association with Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford 22^nd January – 1^st February 2014, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford.
• Director, Communicating Doors, Stephen Joseph Theatre tour 9^th May – 2^nd July 2011, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, Cambridge Arts Theatre, and other locations.
• Director, Communicating Doors, Stephen Joseph Theatre 5^th August – 8^th November 2010, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
• Director, Taking Steps, Orange Tree Theatre 24^th March – 29^th May 2010, Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond.
• Director, My Wonderful Day 13^th October 2009 – 20^th March 2010, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and other locations.
• Director, Man of the Moment, Royal and Derngate Theatres Northampton 30^th July – 15^th August 2009, Royal and Derngate Theatre (formerly The Royal), Northampton.
• Director, Woman in Mind 6^th February – 3^rd May 2009, Vaudeville Theatre, (Strand) London.
• Director, Snake in the Grass, Stephen Joseph Theatre started 10^th June 2008, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
• Director, Season’s Greetings, Stephen Joseph Theatre 6^th October – 20^th November 2004, Birmingham Repertory Theatre and Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford.
• Director, Snake in the Grass, Stephen Joseph Theatre 5^th June 2002 – 22^nd February 2003, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and other locations.
• Director, Bedroom Farce, Stephen Joseph Theatre 21^st September 2000 – 10^th March 2001, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, and other locations.
• Director, House, National Theatre 29^th July – 23^rd September 2000, Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre.
• Director, Comic Potential, Michael Codron in association with Lee Dean and Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford 29^th September 1999 – 3^rd June 2000, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford and Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Ave), London.
• Playwright, Things We Do for Love, Perth Theatre Company 17^th September – 2^nd October 1999, Perth Theatre.
• Director, Haunting Julia, Stephen Joseph Theatre 4^th February – 5^th June 1999, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, and other locations.
• Adaptation, The Forest, National Theatre started 22^nd January 1999, Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre.
• Director, Things We Do for Love 10^th February 1998 – 30^th January 1999, Duchess Theatre, London, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, and other locations.
• Director, By Jeeves 2^nd July 1996 – 22^nd February 1997, Duke of York’s Theatre, London and Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Ave), London.
• Director, Communicating Doors, Savoy Theatre Co. 29^th January – 27^th July 1996, Savoy Theatre, London.
• Director, Communicating Doors 1995 – 6^th January 1996, Theatre Royal, Bath, Gielgud Theatre, London, and other locations.
• Director, Conversations With My Father 7^th March – ? 1995, Old Vic, London.
• Director, Two Weeks with the Queen, National Theatre and Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, co-production. started 3^rd August 1994, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough and Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre.
• Director, Wildest Dreams, Royal Shakespeare Company 23^rd March 1994 (press night), Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
• Director, Communicating Doors, Stephen Joseph Theatre started 2^nd February 1994, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
• Director, Wildest Dreams 1993 – 1994, Barbican Theatre, London.
• Director / Playwright, Wildest Dreams, Royal Shakespeare Company 14^th December 1993 (press night), Pit, London.
• Director, Time of My Life 3^rd August – 23^rd October 1993, Vaudeville Theatre, (Strand) London.
• Director, Mr A’s Amazing Maze Plays started 25^th February 1993, Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre.
• Director, Revengers’ Comedies 16^th October 1991 – 4^th January 1992, Strand Theatre, London (now Novello Theatre, London).
• Director, Wildest Dreams 1991 – 1992, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
• Playwright, A Chorus of Disapproval, York Theatre Royal Company September – October 1991, Theatre Royal, York.
• Director, The Village Fete, Stephen Joseph Theatre 10^th June – 6^th July 1991, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
• Director, Absurd Person Singular, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough 15^th May 1990 – 16^th March 1991, Whitehall Theatre, London (now Trafalgar Theatre, London).
• Director, Man of the Moment 14^th February 1990 – 12^th January 1991, Globe (Shaftesbury Ave), London (now Gielgud Theatre, London).
• Adaptation, Tons of Money started 1^st February 1990, Liverpool Playhouse.
• Director, Invisible Friends, National Theatre started 23^rd November 1989, Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre and Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
• Director, Man of the Moment 1988 – 1989, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
• Director, Henceforward…, Bristol Old Vic Theatre Company October 1988 – 16^th September 1989, Vaudeville Theatre, (Strand) London and Richmond Theatre, London.
• Director, Henceforward… 23^rd May – 2^nd July 1988, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough and Theatre Royal, Bath.
• Director, ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, National Theatre 26^th February – ? 1988, Olivier Theatre, National Theatre.
• Director, Henceforward… 30^th July 1987 – 16^th January 1988, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
• Director, Woman in Mind 3^rd September 1986 – 4^th July 1987, Vaudeville Theatre, (Strand) London.
• Director, A Small Family Business, National Theatre 14^th May – ? 1987, Olivier Theatre, National Theatre.
• Director, A View from the Bridge, National Theatre 6^th February 1987 – 20^th February 1988, Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre and Aldwych Theatre, London.
• Director, Tons of Money, National Theatre 30^th October 1986 – 1987, Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre.
• Director, A Chorus of Disapproval 4^th June 1986 – 7^th March 1987, Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Ave), London.
• Director, A Chorus of Disapproval, National Theatre 25^th July – ? 1985, Olivier Theatre, National Theatre.
• Director, Intimate Exchanges, Ray Cooney/Theatre of Comedy 13^th August 1984 – 16^th February 1985, Ambassadors Theatre, London and Ambassadors Theatre, London.
• Director, Way Upstream, National Theatre started 12^th August 1982, Lyttelton Theatre, National Theatre.

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