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Family Album (Ayckbourn)

  • Alan Ayckbourn
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary, 1950s
  • 3M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9780573000256

Alan Ayckbourn's new play tenderly chronicles the trials, tribulations and temptations of three generations of one family across seventy years in the same home.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary, 1950s
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for all audiences
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre
"Now we're leaving... all the skeletons are suddenly jumping out of their cupboards."

A moving-in day, 1952.
A birthday party, 1992.
A moving-out day, 2022.

Join RAF veteran John and housewife Peggy as they proudly move into the first home, they can really call their own; daughter Sandra, frantically negotiating the challenges of a 10-year-old’s birthday party without her AWOL husband; and granddaughter Alison, finally escaping the house she has somewhat unwillingly inherited.

Alan Ayckbourn’s new play tenderly chronicles the trials, tribulations and temptations of three generations of one family across seventy years in the same home.

Premiere Production: Family Album was first produced by the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough (Round auditorium), on 6th September, 2022.
  • Casting: 3M, 4F

  • February, 1952. Moving In
    JOHN STANTON - 29, a warehouse supervisor, ex RAF
    PEGGY STANTON - 27, a housewife, his wife
  • July, 1992. The Birthday Party
    SANDRA DICKENS - 48, former primary teacher, daughter of John and Peggy
  • November, 2022. Moving Out
    ALISON STANTON-HICKS - 40, a freelance graphic designer, daughter of Sandra
    JESS STANTON-HICKS - 38, her partner, a BBC researcher
  • c1952 and 2022
    TWO REMOVAL MEN - non-speaking and very different in both time periods
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    "Now we're leaving... all the skeletons are suddenly jumping out of their cupboards."

    A moving-in day, 1952.
    A birthday party, 1992.
    A moving-out day, 2022.

    Join RAF veteran John and housewife Peggy as they proudly move into the first home, they can really call their own; daughter Sandra, frantically negotiating the challenges of a 10-year-old’s birthday party without her AWOL husband; and granddaughter Alison, finally escaping the house she has somewhat unwillingly inherited.

    Alan Ayckbourn’s new play tenderly chronicles the trials, tribulations and temptations of three generations of one family across seventy years in the same home.

    $24.95