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Confusions

  • Alan Ayckbourn
  • Full Length Play, Comedy, Contemporary
  • 3M, 2F
  • ISBN: 9780573110733

Buoyant ... sad, sharp and funny.

London Guardian

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Bare Stage/Simple Set
Confusions is actually a set of five interlinked one act plays: Mother Figure, Drinking Companion, Between Mouthfuls, Gosforth's Fete and A Talk in the Park.

Each play deals riotously, but with sharply pointed undertones, with human eccentricities and the human dilemma of loneliness; a mother unable to escape from baby talk, a disastrous fete, an unsuccessful seduction attempt, a fate fraught dinner encounter and the final play sums up with five self immolated characters on park benches.

REVIEWS:

Buoyant ... sad, sharp and funny.

London Guardian

Runs the gamut of comic technique from faintly pathetic situation comedy to outright farce.... Ayckbourn has demonstrated once again that even in a trivial situation he can hold the attention with his matchless ear for conversational speech, and in untrivial situations shows himself a comic writer of immortal quality.

London Financial Times
  • Casting: 3M, 2F

  • MOTHER FIGURE
    Lucy
    Rosemary
    Terry

    DRINKING COMPANION
    Harry
    Paula
    Bernice
    Waiter

    BETWEEN MOUTHFULS
    Waiter
    Pearce
    Mrs Pearce
    Martin
    Polly

    GOSFORTH'S FÊTE
    Mrs Pearce
    Milly
    Gosforth
    Vicar
    Stewart

    A TALK IN THE PARK
    Arthur
    Beryl
    Charles
    Doreen
    Ernest
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    Confusions is actually a set of five interlinked one act plays: Mother Figure, Drinking Companion, Between Mouthfuls, Gosforth's Fete and A Talk in the Park,  Each play deals riotously, but with sharply pointed undertones, with human eccentricities and the human dilemma of loneliness; a mother unable to escape from baby talk, a disastrous fete, an unsuccessful seduction attempt, a fate fraught dinner encounter and the final play sums up with five self immolated characters on park benches.

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