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Life of Riley

  • Alan Ayckbourn
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573121760

"As perceptive as ever...Ayckbourn has once again achieved a satisfyingly rich, tragi-comic complexity."

Daily Telegraph

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
With a few months of his life remaining, George Riley's closest friends remember with love, nostalgia or occasional bursts of fury, how deeply he has affected all their past lives. George, though, is plotting one last final farewell which threatens to upset all their future lives. 

What exactly is the eccentric maverick Riley playing at?
REVIEWS:

"As perceptive as ever... Ayckbourn has once again achieved a satisfyingly rich, tragi-comic complexity."

Daily Telegraph

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 3F

  • MONICA - a teacher, George's estranged wife, late 30s
    SIMEON - a farmer, widower and Monica's new partner, 40s
    JACK - a businessman, George's oldest and best friend, 40s
    TAMSIN - a former beautician, Jack's wife, late 30s
    COLIN - a doctor, 40s
    KATHRYN - a dental receptionist, Colin's wife, 40s
    TILLY - Jack and Tamsin's teenage daughter, non-speaking role

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    With a few months of his life remaining, George Riley's closest friends remember with love, nostalgia or occasional burst of fury, how deeply he has affected all their past lives.

    George though, is plotting one last final farewell which threatens to upset all their future lives. What exactly is the eccentric maverick Riley playing at?

    Contained in the volume Alan Ayckbourn Plays 5.

    "As perceptive as ever... Ayckbourn has once again achieved a satisfyingly rich, tragi-comic complexity." - Daily Telegraph

    		$24.95

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