Damsels in Distress

Alan Ayckbourn

Damsels in Distress is a trilogy of plays set in a flat in Docklands, by Alan Ayckbourn, the most performed playwright in the world.

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Paperback
ISBN
9780571216482
Date Published
16.09.2002
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Summary

This is a trilogy of plays by the most performed playwright in the world, all set in a flat in Docklands. Lynette’s teenage daughter comes up with a surprising way to save the family finances. A night of passion takes a mysterious and dangerous turn. An important family occasion is thrown into chaos by the arrival of some uninvited guests.

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Alan Ayckbourn was born in London in 1939 to a violinist father and a mother who was a writer. He left school at seventeen with two ‘A’ levels and went straight into the theatre. Two years in regional theatre as an actor and stage manager led in 1959 to the writing of his first play, The Square Cat, for Scarborough’s…

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