by Alan Ayckbourn · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140481686
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«Joking Apart and Other Plays» is a collection of four plays by Alan Ayckbourn, published by Penguin in paperback (336 pages, in English).
The volume brings together four plays: «Joking Apart», «Just Between Ourselves», «Ten Times Table» and «Sisterly Feelings». In them Alan Ayckbourn explores the complexities of human relationships, marriage and middle-class life, with humour that springs from recognisable everyday situations.
The plays were originally published by Chatto & Windus: three in 1979 and «Sisterly Feelings» in 1981. The present Penguin edition is from 1982.
Volume suitable for theatre students, lovers of dramatic literature and followers of Alan Ayckbourn's British theatre.
Sir Alan Ayckbourn is a prolific British playwright and director. As of 2025, he has written and produced 91 full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance. More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.
