ALAN AYCKBOURN: PLAYS

Sinopsis: The first volume of Alan Ayckbourn's collected work contains his morality plays from the 1980's. A Chorus of Disapproval - "Plunges us into an amateur operatic society production of the Beggar's Opera. The result is magnificent comedy, symmetrically shaped, psychologically acute and painfully, heartbreakingly funny." Guardian A Small Family Business - "A sizzling comedy from a playwright who possesses an unnerving and unflinching insight into the ways of the suburban world." Time Out Henceforward... - "...another dazzling display of theatrical alchemy. ...a superbly constructed comedy that also encompasses moments of desperate human sadness." Daily Telegraph Man of the Moment - "This is Ayckbourn at the peak of his powers using comedy to say harsh, true things about our society. With the cleansing force of a satirist, he suggests we are constantly fed a doctored version in which virtue is treated as disposable and even as sexy. What he has written is a tonic comedy that defends traditional values without a trace of moral sententiousness." Guardian