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Absent Friends (Acting Edition) (Paperback)

by Alan Ayckbourn (Author)

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Paperback: 52 pages
Publisher: Samuel French Ltd (Dec 1975)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0573013314
ISBN-13: 978-0573013317
Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 13.2 x 0.6 cm

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4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully realistic, but most disturbing., 29 Nov 2000

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Okay, you may think that plays don't make good reading. I certainly never when I read this one, but I have just finished a four night run playing the character of John in my home town of Carluke. Beleive me when I say that these characters are real. The plot is very simple. Five friends invite a friend to tea. Colin has just lost his fiance. Carol drowned a few months previous. By the end of the first act the reader is left thinking, why the feck are these folks still together, maritally speaking. John doesn't mind Paul having an affai with Evelyn, his wife, as it is good for business. Paul, would sleep with anything though. The subtlety of the unwraping of this relationship is very well written. the seriousness shows when Evelyn tells Marge to pass the phone book as Paul his half way through it. So that leaves Marge, an unfortunate woman who looks after a hypocondriac by the name of Gordon. We never meet Gordon, though we have the pleasure of a few cleverly scripted phonecalls to tell us enough to know that he is complete pratt!! As for Colin, well...after reading his first monologue I thought I want to shoot him. You are made to feel sorry for him. Then he is introduced. Sorry, no longer applies...

Alan Ayckbourn has always been able to relate middle class life to a point where you have to ask do these characters exist? In a word-yes.

Excellent book, well worth the read especially if you go to see the play.

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