CONFUSIONS by Alan Ayckbourn
25th-27th March 2004 - Crowthorne Parish Hall
| Ayckbourn's series of plays for 4-5
actors typify his black comedies of human behaviour. The plays are alternately
naturalistic, stylised and farcical, but underlying each is the problem of
loneliness. The Mother Figure shows a mother unable to escape from baby talk;
in The Drinking Companion an absentee husband attempts seduction without
success; in Between Mouthfuls, a waiter oversees a fraught dinner encounter. A
garden party gets out of hand in Gosforth's Fete whilst A Talk in the Park is a
revue style curtain call piece for the five actors. Whether the comedies concern marital conflict, infidelity or motherhood and take place on a park bench or at a village fete, the characters are familiar and their cries for help instantly recognisable. |
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Cast
Mother Figure
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Gosforth's Fête
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Drinking Companion
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A Talk in the Park
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Between Mouthfuls
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Crew
| Director & Producer | Jon Keen |
| Co-directors | Maureen Cowley (Mother Figure) |
| Lynn Gosden (Drinking Companion) | |
| Angela Stone (Between Mouthfuls) | |
| Sophie Taylor (A Talk in the Park) | |
| Production Assistant | Caroline Jones |
| Stage Manager | Caroline Jones |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Pete Gosden |
| Prompt | Rebecca Dobie |
| Publicity | Jackie Ross |
| Properties | Julie Sandes |
| Costumes | Louise Sinnett |
| Lighting | Tim Doyle |
| Sound | Geraint Morris |
| Set Design | John & Sophie Taylor |
| Box Office | Jon Keen |
| Poster | John Taylor |
| Programme | John Taylor |
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