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Season's Greetings
Alan Ayckbourn
Absurd Person Singular
by Alan Ayckbourn
Synopsis
Meet three couples in their three kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years.
The "lower class" but very much up and coming Hopcrofts are in their bright new, gadget filled kitchen anxiously giving a little party for their bank manager and his wife and an architect neighbor.
Next there are the architect and his wife in their neglected, untidy flat.
Then the bank manager and his wife are in their large, slightly modernized, old Victorian style kitchen.
Running like a dark thread through the wild comedy of behind the scenes disasters at Christmas parties is the story of the advance of the Hopcrofts to material prosperity and independence and the decline of the others.
In the final stages the little man is well and truly on top, with the others, literally and unnervingly, dancing to his tune.
Publication
Publisher Samuel French
Year 1974
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 130
Place London
Language English
ISBN-13 9780573010231
ISBN-10 0573010234
LCCN 74170758
LCC PR6051.Y35 A65
DCC 822/.9/14
Absurd Person Singular is a British comedy play written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Samuel French in London (1974).
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