House & Garden (plays)
Two plays written by Alan Ayckbourn to be performed simultaneously / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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House and Garden are a diptych (or linked pair) of plays written by the English playwright Alan Ayckbourn, first performed in 1999. They are designed to be staged simultaneously, with the same cast in adjacent auditoria, and were published together as House & Garden. House takes place in the drawing room, and Garden in the grounds, of a large country house. Each play is self-contained (although each refers more or less obliquely to events in the other), and they may be attended in either order. As is typical of his work, Ayckbourn portrays the mostly bittersweet relationships between more or less unhappy, upper-middle-class people. The title is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the magazine House & Garden, in which country houses and gardens are often portrayed as idyllic, peaceful places.
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Written by | Alan Ayckbourn | ||
Characters | Teddy Platt Trish Platt Sally Platt Giles Mace Joanna Mace Jake Mace Gavin Ryng-Mayne Barry Love Lindy Love Lucille Cadeau Fran Briggs Warn Coucher Izzie Truce Pearl Truce | ||
Date premiered | 19 June 1999 | ||
Place premiered | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough | ||
Original language | English | ||
Subject | Politics | ||
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