Confusions : five interlinked one-act plays
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Confusions : five interlinked one-act plays
（Methuen drama student editions）
Bloomsdury Methuen Drama, 2007, c1983
- : pbk
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"With a commentary and notes by Russell Whiteley"
"This edition first published 1983 by Methuen London Ltd: reissued with a new cover design 1994: reissued with additional material and a new cover design 2007: reissued witn a new cover design 2009, reprinted by Bloomsdury Methuen Drama 2014, 2015, 2017"--T.p. verso
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A student edition of five one-act plays by Britain's most popular playwright. Ayckbourn's series of plays for 4-5 actors typify his black comedies of human behaviour. First produced in 1976, the plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical, but underlying each is the problem of loneliness. The Mother Figure shows a mother unable to escape from baby talk; in The Drinking Companion an absentee husband attempts seduction without success; in Between Mouthfuls, a waiter oversees a fraught dinner encounter. A garden party gets out of hand in Gosforth's Fete whilst A Talk in the Park is a revue style curtain call piece for the five actors. Whether the comedies concern marital conflict, infidelity or motherhood and take place on a park bench or at a village fete, the characters are familiar and their cries for help instantly recognisable. "Principally he is respected as a radical re-inventor of form" Dominic Dromgoole
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