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The Jollies
The Jollies by Alan Ayckbourn is another magical tale for children from Britain’s most popular playwright.
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I mean, what do you do when you suddenly find you’ve got a mother who’s younger than you are? And a kid brother who turns out to be twenty years older than you? Right. You panic.
Yes, eleven-year-old Polly has quite a problem. Now the police are after her as well. Not to mention the Social Services. And a very, very big dog . . . Heeeeeelllllp!
The Jollies is another magical tale for children from Britain’s most popular and most frequently performed playwright. It premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, in December 2002.
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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