Alan Ayckbourn

Six plays from the Olivier, Tony and Moliere Award winning playwright Alan Ayckbourn.

Alan Ayckbourn is a multi-award-winning playwright, whose plays have been seen in the West End, on Broadway and worldwide. In this collection we hear—in his own words—about his family and upbringing; on being a writer and director, as well as those who influenced him....

The first of Ayckbourn's darkly comic masterpieces involves a relentlessly cheerful handyman in a disastrously fractured marriage....

In Table Manners, the action occurs in the dining room of Mother’s house, where a conventional middle-class family is attempting to have a pleasant country weekend....

Starring Anne Heche and Jared Harris, the hilarious Henceforward... is one of Alan Ayckbourn’s most unusual works....

In the second “battle” of Ayckbourn’s celebrated triology The Norman Conquests, we rejoin the family weekend....

A sparkling BBC Radio 4 production of Alan Ayckbourn’s festive play, starring Frances Barber, Phil Daniels, Bill Nighy, Geoffrey Palmer and John Sessions....

The price of accidental fame is hashed out in this comedy about a famous bank robber and the clerk who foiled his biggest heist....