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Yet the truth is that the idea of Ayckbourn as a mere "boulevardier", with its suggestion of playing it safe to rake in the cash, couldn't be more wrong.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Alan Ayckbourn, for instance, has written 74 plays with a 75th now being readied for its premiere in September.
The Portrait of an Invisible Man Terry Teachout 2011
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Steffan Rhodri's Paul is the archetypal Ayckbourn male bully, David Armand as the cuckolded John is all restless, arm-waving energy, and Reece Shearsmith as Colin has the bright-eyed bounciness of the truly insensitive.
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Ayckbourn is here writing, not for the last time, about the innocent destructiveness of the well-intentioned: the agent of chaos on this occasion is the bereaved Colin, whose fiancee has lately drowned and for whom his not-so-close friends throw a consolatory tea party.
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When he is on form, nobody gets the measure of the nation's psyche better than Ayckbourn.
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But Mr. Ayckbourn is in truth one of the half-dozen greatest living playwrights in the English-speaking world, and "Life of Riley," his latest effort, is outstanding in every way.
The Portrait of an Invisible Man Terry Teachout 2011
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It's a real coup for Louis G. Spisto, the Old Globe's executive producer, to have brought a brand-new Alan Ayckbourn play to California, though anyone who keeps up with American regional theater knows that such triumphs are increasingly common in the erstwhile hinterlands.
The Portrait of an Invisible Man Terry Teachout 2011
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That, however, is where things start to get really interesting, for Mr. Ayckbourn specializes in sad comedies whose laughter is tinged with regret, and "Life of Riley," like "The Norman Conquests" before it, is not a standard-issue farce but a darkly shadowed portrait of three middle-class marriages that have been steeped in the sour brine of chronic disappointment.
The Portrait of an Invisible Man Terry Teachout 2011
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Nor does Mr. Ayckbourn let any of his characters off easy.
The Portrait of an Invisible Man Terry Teachout 2011
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Alan Ayckbourn may have retired from running the Stephen Joseph Theatre but he shows no sign of slowing down as a playwright.
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