by Alan Ayckbourn · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140481501
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
"Three Plays" is Alan Ayckbourn's theatre volume, published by Penguin in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Three black comedies set in suburban England portray with irony the relationships of couples: dinners that get out of hand, awkward reunions and parties where marital conflicts surface. Ayckbourn combines acid humour with a moving look at marriage and loneliness in domestic spaces.
Published in 1979 in the Penguin Plays collection, it brings together the plays Absurd Person Singular, Absent Friends and Bedroom Farce.
Recommended for readers of contemporary British theatre and for those seeking acid-humour comedies about life as a couple.
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.
