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Confusions (Student Editions) (Paperback)

by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)
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  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Methuen Drama; New edition edition (1 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0713685514
  • ISBN-13: 978-0713685510
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.8 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 381,032 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A student edition of five one-act plays by Britain's most popular playwright. Ayckbourn's series of plays for 4-5 actors typify his black comedies of human behaviour. First produced in 1976, the plays are alternately naturalistic, stylised and farcical, but underlying each is the problem of loneliness. The Mother Figure shows a mother unable to escape from baby talk; in The Drinking Companion an absentee husband attempts seduction without success; in Between Mouthfuls, a waiter oversees a fraught dinner encounter. A garden party gets out of hand in Gosforth's Fete whilst A Talk in the Park is a revue style curtain call piece for the five actors. Whether the comedies concern marital conflict, infidelity or motherhood and take place on a park bench or at a village fete, the characters are familiar and their cries for help instantly recognisable. "Principally he is respected as a radical re-inventor of form" Dominic Dromgoole


About the Author

Alan Ayckbourn was born in 1939 and has over sixty plays and productions to his name. Ayckbourn's recent play Things We Do For Love was produced in the West End in 1998 and House/Garden was produced at the Royal National Theatre in 2000.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic and hilarious, 28 Feb 2004
By M. L. York "Grammarian" (UK) - See all my reviews
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I read this from the perspective of an aspiring playwright rather than an actor, and found it to be invaluable. Although there is, in my opinion, no better source of inspiration than live theatre, reading Ayckbourn's drama is extremely interesting. One gains insight into the theatrical devices used by the playwright which sometimes are only fleeting in performance. It is fascinating to find out the detail Ayckbourn gives in communicating his wishes for the performance, such as the lowering and raising of voices in 'Between Mouthfuls' (my personal favourite of the five one-act plays).

All the plays which make up Confusions are striking and individual, but all return to the main theme of loneliness. For me, the wealth of stylised theatrical devices is what makes it such a witty and engaging set of plays.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb! A great mixture of characters!, 5 Dec 2001
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This book is ideal for any one studying a level or GCSE drama, it provides a mixture of plays with characters ranging from stereotypical to the paranomal, with each lasting between 20 and 30 mins long, ideal for a script acting mock.

It is very well written and the characters and stage directions are clearly visual, it is a superb book, which drama students or those interested in Drama should study.

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4 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not excellent, 13 Feb 2001
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This a play with five or six mini plays linked together. From each mini-play (I suppose you could call it a scene) one character is taken and in the next scene that character is the main character.

In one story, there is a man and at the very end he takes his coat from a waiter. Then in the next story the waiter is the main character.

It is amusing in some parts but of course plays are meant to be seen not read.

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