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Absurd Person Singular
Major successes
include Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests, Bedroom Farce, Just
Between Ourselves, A Chorus Of Disapproval, Woman In Mind, A Small Family
Business and Man Of The Moment. His plays have won numerous awards -
including seven London Evening Standard Awards. They have been translated
into over 30 languages and are performed on stage and television
throughout the world. They have also been filmed in French and English.
Four of his plays have been seen on Broadway attracting two Tony
nominations in the process. In 1991, he received a Dramalogue Critics
Award for his play Henceforward...Nihon University, Tokyo houses a
permanent collection of his work. He is an
enthusiastic writer for children and Faber, in their Contemporary
Classics, have just published a volume of five of these plays. He is also an
established director, not only of his own work (since 1978, he has
directed all the London productions of his plays) but other people's. In
1986, at Sir Peter Hall’s invitation, he directed his own company of
actors in four plays at the Royal National Theatre winning a Plays &
Plays Director of the Year Award for his production of A View From The
Bridge starring Michael Gambon. He has been the
Cameron Mackintosh Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University
and is a Fellow of the RSA. He holds honorary degrees from the
Universities of Keele, Hull, Leeds, Bradford, York and the Open University
and is an Honorary Fellow of Bretton Hall and Cardiff University of Wales.
He was appointed a CBE in 1987 and earlier this year was knighted for
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Alan
Ayckbourn, Artistic Director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough,
was born in London in 1939. He has worked in theatre all his life as,
variously, stage manager, sound technician, lighting technician, scene
painter, prop maker, actor, writer and director. Almost all of the 53
plays Alan Ayckbourn has written to date received their first performance
at this theatre. More than 25 have subsequently been produced in the West
End since his first hit opened in 1967.