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Relatively Speaking (Ayckbourn)
Alan Ayckbourn
Roleplay
by Alan Ayckbourn
What readers are saying
Readers find the play to be very funny and enjoyable, particularly praising the diverse characters and overall comedic themes. It's described as a fun experience both for rehearsal and performance. The quality of the script itself is also commended.
Very funny in partsGood character varietyWell-made scriptSome characters require more depth
Synopsis
Justin and Julie-Ann, hopelessly mismatched in love, are about to introduce their respective parents to each other over dinner - Justin's upper-crust alcoholic mother from Surrey and Julie-Ann's bigoted Yorkshire father and prim mother.
Into this doomed scenario drops, literally, via the balcony upstairs and the river, Paige Petite, a former lap-dancer with suicidal tendencies and her thick, gun-toting minder who is employed by her violent boyfriend...
Publication
PublisherSamuel French
Year2004
BindingPaperback
EditionRevised ed.
Pages116
PlaceNew York
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780573115691
ISBN-100573115699
LCCN2006471061
LCCPR6051.Y35 R57 2002
DCC822/.914
Roleplay is a British comedy play written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Samuel French in New York (2004).
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Samuel French · 2004 · 116 pp
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