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Absurd Person Singular

Absurd Person Singular

Author: Alan Ayckbourn

First Performance: 1972, Scarborough

Published: 1974

Genre: Com. in 3 acts

Setting: Three kitchens in neighbouring houses in an English town, 1970s

Cast: 3m, 3f

House-proud Jane Hopcroft is cleaning her neat modern kitchen in preparation for a Christmas party, to which she and her husband Sidney have invited neighbours Ronald and Marion Brewster-Wright, a banker and his wife, and Geoffrey Jackson, an architect, whose marriage is less than happy, since he is a womanizer and his wife Eva is neurotic. While the party goes on in the living room, the hosts and guests wander in and out of the kitchen – except for Jane, who is mistakenly shut out in the garden in the pouring rain. The next Christmas, Geoffrey and Eva have invited guests to their untidy flat, where Eva,...

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