Alan Ayckbourn

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A Chorus of Disapproval
5.2
Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a way to meet people. However he soon finds the drama offstage far outweighs those onstage.
Drama
Relatively Speaking
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Relatively Speaking

Dec 24, 1989
It's the sixties. Gregory loves Ginny, and Ginny loves Gregory. But unfortunately Ginny also loves Philip, or at least she used to, and Philip loves her. Does Philip love his wife too? Ginny tells Gregory she's going to see her parents, when she's actually going to see Philip to break things off. Gregory, thinking to surprise her, gets there first, and the chaos begins.
Comedy
Bedroom Farce
6

Bedroom Farce

Sep 28, 1980
Trevor and Susannah, whose marraige is on the rocks, inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest: three couples whose own relationships are tenuous at best. Taking place sequentially in the three beleaguered couples' bedrooms during one endless Saturday night of co-dependence and dysfunction, beds, tempers, and domestic order are ruffled, leading all the players to a hilariously touching epiphany.
TV Movie
Way Upstream
6.3

Way Upstream

Jan 01, 1987
Two couples go on a boating holiday together, and run into some strange people and events.
TV Movie
By Jeeves
4.8

By Jeeves

Oct 17, 2001
An adventure of the hapless Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman about town with a penchant for getting himself into personal difficulties, particularly with women. It is inevitable left to his unflappable manservant Jeeves to provide tidy and elegant rescues.
Comedy
By Jeeves
4.8

By Jeeves

Oct 17, 2001
An adventure of the hapless Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman about town with a penchant for getting himself into personal difficulties, particularly with women. It is inevitable left to his unflappable manservant Jeeves to provide tidy and elegant rescues.
Comedy
Absurd Person Singular
8
A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. The camera stays in the kitchen and we are treated to Ayckbourn's beautifully detailed look at middle class life.
Comedy
Smoking / No Smoking
6.423

Smoking / No Smoking

Dec 15, 1993
A movie in three acts following three couples who, over three years, each host a Christmas party. The camera stays in the kitchen and we are treated to Ayckbourn's beautifully detailed look at middle class life.
Drama
The Girl Next Door
1

The Girl Next Door

Jun 11, 2021
Placing wartime and lockdown life side-by-side, Alan Ayckbourn’s 85th play is a touching, tender and, of course, funny reflection on the ability of love to rise above adversity and reach across the years.
Comedy
The Girl Next Door
1

The Girl Next Door

Jun 11, 2021
Placing wartime and lockdown life side-by-side, Alan Ayckbourn’s 85th play is a touching, tender and, of course, funny reflection on the ability of love to rise above adversity and reach across the years.
Comedy
Season's Greetings
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Season's Greetings

Dec 24, 1986
Eight people attend a Christmas party in hope of having a pleasant celebration, however it takes various awkward turns and ends with one of the guests leaving sooner than they thought. Alan Ayckbourn's stage play adapted for BBC TV, 1986
Drama
Amour, vengeance & trahison
5.8
Alan Ayckbourn's riotous exposure of entrepreneurial greed returns to the National Theatre, where it premiered in 1987, winning the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play.
Comedy
6

Oct 19, 1977

The trilogy presents a comically fraught weekend from three different perspectives, as family and in laws gather at the decaying country home of their bedridden mother; the drink flows, and hidden enmities, intimate secrets and uncomfortable truths emerge through the veneer of jollity and civility.
1

Jul 21, 1990

A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.
Drama