What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I'm more interested in, there's the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious.
Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare. - Alan Ayckbourn
Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.
- Alan Ayckbourn
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to… - Alan Ayckbourn
I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage? . . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to…
There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much. - Alan Ayckbourn
There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.
What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuin… - Alan Ayckbourn
What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuin…
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in… - Alan Ayckbourn
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in…
A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde… - Alan Ayckbourn
A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde…
He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. - Alan Ayckbourn
He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.
Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you. - Alan Ayckbourn
Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. - Alan Ayckbourn
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.
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