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Sight Unseen: Alan Ayckbourn's Unpublished & Unproduced Plays, Concepts, Alternative Titles & Ephemera

In 2009, Alan Ayckbourn's Official Website published its first book, Sight Unseen: The Unseen Ayckbourn Guide. Compiled from more than a decade's research into Alan Ayckbourn's writing with exclusive access to his archive, it offered an insight into unproduced plays, unpublished plays, withdrawn plays, concepts and ideas for plays, alternative variations and titles as well as other Ayckbourn ephemera.

The majority of the material within the book is not part of the acknowledged Ayckbourn canon and as a result, being peripheral to the official canon, the material is not included on this website. The various entries within the book are listed below to offer an idea of the variety of thiss material and details of which can be found in the book Sight Unseen, details of which are carried at the bottom of the page.

Sight Unseen cover

 
Sight Unseen: Contents

Unproduced Plays

> Bedside Manners

> Board Game

> Jennings

> The Honeymoon

> 'Ionescu' play

> Love Undertaken

> Modern Love

> The Party Game

> 'Pirandello' play

> Relative Values

> The Season

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Screenplays / Television Concepts

> Clue (concept)

> Relatively Speaking

> Ernest & Delia (concept)

> Floor 71 (concept)

> Mind Over Murder

> Someone Watching (concept)

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Concepts / Ideas

> Absurd Person Singular (concept)

> The 'Bath' play

> The 'Blizzard' play

> A Chorus Of Disapproval (concept)

> Ecraf

> Elevator / Escalator Play

> FlatSpin (concept)

> GamePlan (concept)

> Henceforward... (concept)

> The 'Hotel' play

> The Jollies (concept)

> Karaoke play

> Life After Beth

> The 'Pageant' play

> Private Fears In Public Places (concept)

> Sight Unseen

> Suburban Strains (concept)

> Ten Times Table (concept)

> The Westwoods (concept)

> Who Do You Think?

> The Wizard Of Oz

> A Word From Our Sponsor (concept)

Proposed Titles / Alternative Versions

> Am I Famous Yet?

> Body Language (1990 version)

> Father's Day

> Five To Five

> How The Other Half Loves (West End)

> It Could Be Any One Of Us (1983 version)

> I To I

> Meeting Like This

> Meet My Father

> Meet My Mother

> The Silver Collection

> Standing Room Only (West End)

> Take It Or Leave It

> Winnie's Wonderful Day

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Ephemera

> Cinderella's Star Night: epilogue

> Jennings adaptation

> Haileybury revues

> Millennium attraction

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As well as information on all these plays (including extracts where available), Sight Unseen also includes exclusive extracts and information on the withdrawn plays The Square Cat, Love After All, Dad's Tale, Standing Room Only, Christmas V Mastermind, The Sparrow, Jeeves, Making Tracks and Virtual Reality as well as all the Grey Plays and variations on canon plays.
 

How And Where To Buy Sight Unseen

Sight Unseen is available as a professionally published softback or as an ebook - details to order either are listed below
  Price Payment methods How To Order

Sight Unseen

(softcover)

via lulu.com

 

Book:  £4

P&P:   £3

Total: £7

 

All major credit / debit cards

Sight Unseen can be ordered directly from the publisher for £7 including postage & packing. Click here to visit the Sight Unseen order page at www.lulu.com.

 

Sight Unseen

(softcover)

via this website

 

Book:  £7

P&P:   £.60

Total: £7.60

 

PayPal / cheque / Credit & Debit cards

Sight Unseen can also be bought for £7.60 from the Stephen Joseph Theatre via this website with proceeds going to the Stephen Joseph Theatre. To order, email Simon at: admin@alanayckbourn.net.

 

Sight Unseen

(ebook)

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Total: £3

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All major credit / debit cards

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Sight Unseen is also now available as an ebook for £2 from www.lulu.com. Click here to visit the Sight Unseen ebook page at www.lulu.com.

 

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