Roleplay
by Alan Ayckbourn
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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.
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
Roleplay is a British comedy play written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Samuel French in New York (2004).
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