Alan Ayckbourn: Play recordings & Adaptations in Other Media

This page has an at-a-glance guide to which Ayckbourn plays have been adapted to or performed in media other than on the stage such as TV, radio and film. Click on a play-title to go to the relevant page in the Encyclopaedia section with details about the media adaptations.

NOTE: Most of these adaptations have not been made commercially available and are unavailable to obtain. Please do not contact the website or The Ayckbourn Archive about obtaining them as neither holds copies of the adaptations.

Play Title

Format

○ Absent Friends
○ Absurd Person Singular
○ Anno Domino
○ Awaking Beauty
○ Bedroom Farce
○ By Jeeves
○ A Chorus Of Disapproval
○ Confusions
○ Countdown
○ A Cut In The Rates
○ Dreams From A Summer House
○ Ernie's Incredible Illucinations
○ Family Album
○ The Girl Next Door
○ Haunting Julia
○ Henceforward...
○ Intimate Exchanges
○ Jeeves
○ Joking Apart
○ Just Between Ourselves
○ Life Of Riley
○ Living Together
○ Making Tracks
○ Man Of The Moment
○ Men On Women On Men
○ The Norman Conquests
○ Private Fears In Public Places
○ Relatively Speaking
○ The Revengers’ Comedies
○ Round And Round The Garden
○ Season’s Greetings
○ The Seven Deadly Virtues
○ Service Not Included
○ A Small Family Business
○ Table Manners
○ Things We Do For Love
○ Time And Time Again
○ Way Upstream
○ Whenever
○ Woman In Mind

Radio (1977) / Television (1985)
Radio (1977) / Television (1985)
Audio Play (2020)
Cast Recording (2008)
Television (1980)
Radio (1996) / Television (2001) / Cast Recording (1996 x 2, 2001)
Film (1984)
Radio (1979, 1985, 1987, 1988)
Television (1972)
Television (1984)
Cast Recording (1992)
Television (1987)
Streaming (2022)
Streaming (2021)
Audio Play (2020)
Radio (2012) / Audio Play (2010)
Film (1994) / Radio (1987)
Cast Recording (1975)
Radio (1981, 1990)
Radio (1984, 2008) / Television (1978)
Film (2014)
Radio (1990, 2015) / Television (1977) / Audio Play (1999)
Cast Recording (1981)
Radio (1992, 2009) / Audio Play (1994)
Television (1979) / Cast Recording (1978)
Radio (1990, 2015) / Television (1977) / Audio Play (1999)
Film (2006)
Radio (1975) / Television (1967, 1969, 1989)
Film (1998/) / Radio (1996)
Radio (1990, 2015) / Television (1977) / Audio Play (1999)
Radio (1985, 1999) / Television (1986)
Television (1984) / Cast Recording (1984)
Television (1974)
Radio (2009) / Live Stream (2014)
Radio (1990, 2015) / Television (1977) / Audio Play (1999)
Radio (1998)
Television (1976)
Radio (1997) / Television (1988)
Radio (2006) / Cast Recording (2000)
Radio (2000, 2014)

All research in this section is by Simon Murgatroyd and should be credited if reproduced.