Absurd Person Singular
by Alan Ayckbourn

Absurd Person Singular Book Cover
Absurd Person Singular Cover

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.

Performance

Cast

A small cast size of 6 total roles, 3 female and 3 male roles.

Publication

Publisher
Samuel French
Year Published
1974
ISBN 10
0573010234
ISBN 13
9780573010231
Binding
Paperback
Edition
First Edition
Print Length
130 pages
Place Published
London
Language
English
LCCN
74170758
LCC
PR6051.Y35 A65
DCC
822/.9/14
Print
Absurd Person Singular is a British comedy / farce play written by and published by Samuel French in London, 1974. The print edition has an ISBN-13 of 9780573010231 and an ISBN-10 of 0573010234.

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