Woman in Mind

Alan Ayckbourn

Woman in Mind by Alan Ayckbourn has for its protagonist a parson’s wife, Susan, a character described by the Guardian as ‘one of the most moving and devastating that he has created . . .’

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17.07.2014
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Summary

The central character of Alan Ayckbourn’s new play is Susan, a parson’s wife, ‘one of the most moving and devastating that he has created…’
Robin Thornber reviewing the first production in Scarborough in the Guardian.

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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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