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Alan Ayckbourn: The Definitive List Of
Plays (1959 - present day) |
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This is a complete and definitive list of Alan Ayckbourn's plays and other writing
to the present day.
For
in-depth details on specific plays, click
on the play title. For a downloadable
version of this list, click
here.
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Full Length Plays
(click on a title to learn more) |
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1959 |
The Square Cat |
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1985 |
Woman In Mind |
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1959 |
Love After All |
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1987 |
A Small Family Business |
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1960 |
Dad’s Tale |
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1987 |
Henceforward… |
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1961 |
Standing Room Only |
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1988 |
Man Of The Moment |
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1962 |
Christmas V Mastermind |
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1988 |
Mr. A’s Amazing Maze Plays |
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1963 |
Mr Whatnot |
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1989 |
The Revengers’ Comedies (pt. 1 & pt. 2) |
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1965 |
Meet My Father - subsequently |
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1989 |
Invisible Friends |
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Relatively Speaking (revised 1967) |
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1990 |
Body Language - subsequently |
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1967 |
The Sparrow |
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Body Language (revised 1998) |
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1969 |
How The Other Half Loves |
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1990 |
This Is Where We Came In |
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1970 |
The Story So Far… -
subsequently |
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1990 |
Callisto 5 - subsequently |
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Me Times Me Time Me (revised 1971) -
subsequently |
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Callisto#7 (revised 1999) |
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Me Times Me (revised 1971) -
subsequently |
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1991 |
Wildest Dreams |
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Family Circles (revised 1978) |
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1991 |
My Very Own Story |
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1971 |
Time And Time Again |
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1992 |
Time Of My Life |
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1972 |
Absurd Person Singular |
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1992 |
Dreams From A Summer House (with John Pattison) |
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1973 |
The Norman Conquests -
comprising |
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1994 |
Communicating Doors |
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Fancy Meeting You -
subsequently |
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1994 |
Haunting Julia |
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Table Manners (retitled 1974) |
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1994 |
The Musical Jigsaw Play (with John Pattison) |
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Make Yourself At Home -
subsequently |
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1995 |
A Word From Our Sponsor (with John Pattison) |
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Living Together (retitled 1974) |
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1996 |
The Champion Of Paribanou |
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Round And Round The Garden |
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1997 |
Things We Do For Love |
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1974 |
Absent Friends |
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1998 |
Comic Potential |
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1974 |
Confusions |
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1998 |
The Boy Who Fell Into A Book |
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1975 |
Jeeves (with Andrew Lloyd Webber) -
subsequently |
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1999 |
House & |
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By Jeeves (with Andrew Lloyd Webber) (revised 1996) |
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1999 |
Garden |
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1975 |
Bedroom Farce |
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2000 |
Virtual Reality |
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1976 |
Just Between Ourselves |
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2000 |
Whenever (with Denis King) |
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1977 |
Ten Times Table |
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2001 |
Damsels In Distress -
comprising |
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1978 |
Joking Apart |
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GamePlan |
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1979 |
Sisterly Feelings |
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FlatSpin |
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1979 |
Taking Steps |
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RolePlay |
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1980 |
Suburban Strains (with Paul Todd) |
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2002 |
Snake In The Grass |
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1980 |
Season’s Greetings |
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2002 |
The Jollies |
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1981 |
Way Upstream |
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2003 |
Sugar Daddies |
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1981 |
Making Tracks (with Paul Todd) |
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2003 |
Orvin: Champion Of Champions (with Denis King) |
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1982 |
Intimate Exchanges -
comprising |
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2003 |
My Sister Sadie |
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Events On A Hotel Terrace |
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2004 |
Drowning On Dry Land |
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Affairs In A Tent |
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2004 |
Private Fears In Public Places |
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Love In The Mist |
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2004 |
Miss Yesterday |
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A Cricket Match |
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2005 |
Improbable Fiction |
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A Game Of Golf |
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2006 |
If I Were You |
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A Pageant |
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2008 |
Life & Beth |
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A Garden Fete |
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2008 |
Awaking Beauty (with Denis King) |
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A One Man Protest |
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2009 |
My Wonderful Day |
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1983 |
It Could Be Any One Of Us -
subsequently |
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2010 |
Life Of Riley |
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It Could Be Any One Of Us (revised 1996) |
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2011 |
Neighbourhood Watch |
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1984 |
A Chorus Of Disapproval |
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2012 |
Surprises
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Revues (composer in parenthesis) |
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1978 |
Men On Women On Men (with Paul Todd) |
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1984 |
The Westwoods (with Paul Todd) |
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1980 |
First Course (with Paul Todd) |
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1985 |
Boy Meets Girl (with Paul Todd) |
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1980 |
Second Helping (with Paul Todd) |
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1985 |
Girl Meets Boy (with Paul Todd) |
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1981 |
Me, Myself & I (with Paul Todd) |
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1986 |
Mere Soup Songs (with Paul Todd) |
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1983 |
Incidental Music (with Paul Todd) |
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1998 |
Cheap And Cheerful (with Denis King) |
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1984 |
The 7 Deadly Virtues (with Paul Todd) |
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One Act Plays |
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1962 |
Countdown |
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1984 |
A Cut In The Rates |
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Plays For Children And Young People |
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1969 |
Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations |
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2003 |
The Ten Magic Bridges |
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1989 |
The Inside Outside Slide Show |
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2004 |
Miranda’s Magic Mirror |
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1999 |
Gizmo |
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2005 |
The Girl Who Lost Her Voice |
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2002 |
The Princess And The Mouse |
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Adaptations (original author and translator - where
applicable - in parenthesis) |
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1982 |
A Trip To Scarborough (R B Sheridan) |
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1999 |
The Forest (Ostrovsky; translation by Vera Liber) |
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1985 |
Tons Of Money (Will Evans & Valentine) |
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2011 |
Dear Uncle (Chekhov; translation by Vera Liber) |
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1989 |
Wolf At The Door (Henry Becque; trans. David Walker) |
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Screenplays |
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1974 |
Service Not Included |
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Books |
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2002 |
The Crafty Art Of Playmaking |
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The Grey Plays (Performed but
never published and not included in the canon) |
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1960 |
Double Hitch
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1983 |
Backnumbers (with Paul Todd) |
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1961 |
Love Undertaken |
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1987 |
An Evening With PALOS |
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1962 |
Follow The Lover |
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1991 |
Ron & Julie |
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1975 |
Dracula
(sketch from What The Devil!) |
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1992 |
Between The Lines (by Paul Todd / Lyrics:
Ayckbourn) |
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1977 |
The Jubilee Show |
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2005 |
Untitled Farce |
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Early Writing (confirmed as written and
attributable to Alan Ayckbourn) |
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1957 (circa) |
The Season*
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1959 (circa) |
Relative Values* |
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1958 (circa) |
The Party Game* |
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1959
(circa) |
Mind Over Murder* |
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* Although manuscripts exist for these
plays, they are not available nor considered part of Alan Ayckbourn's
acknowledged canon - predating in all likelihood his first acknowledged
and produced play The Square Cat.
The surviving manuscripts of these plays are held in The Ayckbourn
Archive at the Borthwick Institute at the University Of York.
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