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Absent Friends
Alan Ayckbourn
Invisible Friends
by Alan Ayckbourn
Synopsis
Alan Ayckbourn's play is about a very ordinary teenager called Lucy.
With her father glued to the cowboys on the telly, her mother preoccupied with neighbourly gossip and her brother enclosed in his ear-phones, no one wants to know about her place in the school swimming team.
So Lucy revives her childhood fantasy friend, Zara, setting a place for her at the very ordinary tea table.
This time Zara materializes, bringing with her an idealized father and brother, and showing Lucy how to make her real family vanish.
The moral of this cautionary tale is carefully spelt out - that when you get what you want it's not what you wanted - as Lucy's dream family turns out to be a nightmare.
The play is supposedly for children of seven upwards, but there's a message here for parents, too, about listening to kids.
Themes PR6051.Y35 I585 1991
Publication
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year 1991
Binding Paperback
Edition Main
Pages 80
Place London
Language English
ISBN-13 9780571144761
ISBN-10 0571144764
eISBN-13 9780571325771
LCCN 91172466
LCC PR6051.Y35 I585 1991
DCC 822/.914
Invisible Friends is a British comedy play written by Alan Ayckbourn and published by Faber & Faber in London (1991).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play (eISBN 9780571325771).
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