Ten Times Table
by Alan Ayckbourn

Name: Ten Times Table
Brand: Alan Ayckbourn
SKU: 9780573015311
Rating: 2.86 (10 reviews)

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Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

120 minsInterior SetBritish Comedy

What readers are saying

Readers find the play to be very funny and suitable for production, although it may present challenges for smaller local theatre groups. There are concerns regarding the usability of the script for those learning their lines.

Very funny scriptGreat for local productionsChallenging for small groups

Synopsis

The leading lights of the village have decided to hold a pageant of local history based on a somewhat vague event, "The Massacre of the Pendon Twelve".

But there's a young left wing teacher on the committee who decides to turn it into a rally for proletarian revolution.

Committee meetings become symbolic battlefields for conflicting views - the right wing faction being led by the Chairman's conservative wife.

The event turns into a violent confrontation between the two extremes, with cataclysmic results.

Police intervention brings matters to a relatively quiet conclusion, but already another pageant - Romans versus Britons - seems an attractive possibility.