Alan Ayckbourn Bücher

Unverzichtbares Handbuch für jeden, der sich für das Schreiben und Inszenieren von Theaterstücken interessiert. Alan Ayckbourn, einer der meistgespielten Theaterautoren der Gegenwart, gibt zum ersten Mal Einblick in alle Kunstgriffe seines Handwerks. Von nützlichen Ratschlägen zum Schreiben (Wo fängt man an? Wie macht man weiter? Was ist eine Komödie? Was funktioniert eine Tragödie?) bis zu Tipps für das Regieführen (Arbeit mit Schauspielern und Technikern, wie bekommt man die Proben in den Griff) ist das Buch ein vollständiger Leitfaden für Anfänger wie auch ein Auffrischungslehrgang für den Fortgeschrittenen. Eingängig und ungemein unterhaltsam geschrieben, mit einer Vielzahl an Anekdoten zum Wie, Wann, Wo und vor allem Warum. In zwei Teile untergliedert 'Schreiben' und 'Inszenieren', enthält das Buch eine ausführliche Anleitung über das Entwerfen eines Theaterstücks. Klar geschrieben, mit nützlichen Beispielen und einer Reihe von Anekdoten, decken seine 101 Regeln alles ab, von der 'Initialidee', über das Schreiben und Erstellen von Plots, Schauplätzen, Figuren und Dialogen, bis hin zum Umgang mit 'Stars', Produzenten, schwierigen Schauspielern, exzentrischen Bühnentechnikern und der Presse.

Time of My Life charts the decline and fall of a successful family business founded and nurtured by Gerry and Laura Stratton. It is Laura's fifty-fourth birthday and Gerry has organized a small family dinner at their favourite restaurant. Domestically, all seems well. Glyn, their eldest son, has patched up his marriage with Stephanie; younger son Adam has a new girlfriend and is deeply in love. But, as we suspect, all this is surface stuff. For, as their evening proceeds, the play reveals skeletons from the past and a spectre of the future.

Adrian is about to introduce his fiancée Grace to his parents at a birthday party, but they are worried that Grace doesn't know about Adrian's alleged reputation. As more birthdays unfold, the truth about the suburban closet Lothario is revealed...

A comedy in four parts about an unremarkable man and the remarkable women who loved him. From his first encounters as a young man in 1925 to an unexpected reunion late in life, Anthony Spates' romantic progress is charted against the backdrop of an equally remarkable old manor house in this hilarious and gently touching comedy.

Two people contemplating suicide, Henry Bell, who's lost his job to a rival, and Karen Knightly, who's lost her lover to his wife, decide to obtain revenge on each other's nemesis

How Ms Poopay Dayseer, a twenty-first century Specialist Sexual Consultant, whilst peddling her 'services' to an elderly hotel room client unexpectedly finds herself running for her life.

Stanley, Hazel, Warren and Rick make the weekly escape from their real life nightmares into a role-playing board game peopled by dragons and monsters. A safe world where the dangers are of their own imagining; where they are free to become heroes of their own devising.But how clear is the dividing line between what they choose to be and what they really are? What would it take for them to lose sight of it altogether?All it requires is Marcie. Loveable, understanding, sympathetic Marcie - destined to become the new demon to haunt their wildest dreams.