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Alan Ayckbourn
Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE (born 12 April 1939) is a popular and prolific English playwright. He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance. More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.
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Alfred Hennequin
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Andrew Norriss
Andrew Norriss is a British children's author and a writer for television .
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Anton Chekhov
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (, ; – ) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
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Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (10 July 1640 – 16 April 1689) was a prolific dramatist of the Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Her writing participated in the amatory fiction genre of British literature.
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Arthur Murphy
Arthur Murphy (December 27, 1727 – June 18, 1805), also known by the pseudonym Charles Ranger, was an Irish writer. He was born at Clooniquin, County Roscommon, Ireland, the son of Richard Murphy and Jane French. A barrister, journalist, actor, and playwright, he edited Gray Inn Journal between 1752 and 1754. As Henry Thrale's oldest and dearest friend, he introduced Samuel Johnson to the Thrales in January 1765. He was appointed Commissioner of Bankruptcy in 1803. Murphy is best known for three biographies: his 1792 An Essay on the Life and Genius of Samuel Johnson, his 1762 ''Fielding's Works and his 1801 Life of David Garrick. Murphy is thought to have coined the legal term "wilful misconstruction" whilst representing the Donaldson v. Becket'' appeal to the House of Lords in 1774 against the perpetual possession of copyright. He died at Knightsbridge, London, and was buried at Hammersmith, London.
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Ben Travers
Ben Travers AFC CBE (12 November 1886, London – 18 December 1980) in London) was a British playwright best remembered for his farces.
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Brandon Thomas
Walter Brandon Thomas (24 December 1850 – 19 June 1914) was an English actor, playwright and song writer. He is best known for writing the comic play ''Charley's Aunt'' (1892), which broke all historic records for plays of any kind, with an original London run of 1,466 performances.
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Cervantes Saavedra
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Chaucer
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Curb Your Enthusiasm
Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American comedy television series created, scripted and starring Seinfeld co-creator, writer and executive producer Larry David. It is produced and broadcast by HBO.
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Derek Benfield
Derek Benfield (11 March 1926 – 10 March 2009) was a British playwright and actor.
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Don Quixote
(; , see spelling and pronunciation below), fully titled The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha (), is a novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story by inventing a Moorish chronicler for Don Quixote named Cide Hamete Benengeli. Published in two volumes a decade apart (in 1605 and 1615), Don Quixote is the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age in the Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature, it regularly appears high on lists of the greatest works of fiction ever published.
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Elizabeth Inchbald
Elizabeth Inchbald (née Simpson) (1753–1821) was an English novelist, actress, and dramatist.
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Georges Feydeau
Georges Feydeau, (8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the era known as the Belle Époque. He is remembered for his many lively farces.
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Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing, Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
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Jean Poiret
Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, (17 August 1926 – 14 March 1992) was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He is primarily known as the author of the original play La Cage Aux Folles. Jean Poiret was born in Paris, France, where he died of a heart attack in 1992. He is buried at the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
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Joe Orton
John Kingsley ("Joe") Orton (1 January 1933 – 9 August 1967
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John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, writer and film producer. He achieved success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and as a scriptwriter on The Frost Report. In the late 1960s he became a member of Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show ''Monty Python's Flying Circus and the four Monty Python films: And Now for Something Completely Different, Holy Grail, Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life''.
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John Maddison Morton
John Maddison Morton (3 January 1811 – 19 December 1891) was an English playwright who specialized in one-act farces. His most famous farce was Box and Cox (1847). He also wrote comic dramas, pantomimes and other theatrical pieces.
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Labiche
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Larry David
Lawrence Eugene "Larry" David (born July 2, 1947) is an American actor, writer, comedian, and producer. In 1989, he teamed up with Jerry Seinfeld to co-create the television series Seinfeld, where he also acted as head writer and executive producer. David's work won him a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 1993. In 1999, he created the HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm, a partially improvised sitcom in which he stars as a fictionalized version of himself. Formerly a standup comedian, David went into television comedy, writing and starring in ABC's Fridays, as well as writing briefly for Saturday Night Live. He was voted by other comedians the 23rd-greatest comedian of all time in British Channel 4's poll ''The Comedians' Comedian''.
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Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), well known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
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Michael Frayn
Michael J. Frayn (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. His works often raise philosophical questions in a humorous context. Frayn's wife is Claire Tomalin, the biographer and literary journalist.
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Michael Pertwee
Michael Pertwee (24 April 1916 – 17 April 1991) was a British playwright and screenwriter. Among his credits were episodes of The Saint, Danger Man, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, B-And-B , Ladies Who Do, and many other films and TV series.
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Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (, , Kiev – March 10, 1940, Moscow) was a Soviet Russian writer and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, which The Times of London has called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
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Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, mostly known by his stage name Molière, (; January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known dramas are Le Misanthrope (The Misanthrope), ''L'École des femmes (The School for Wives), Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur, (Tartuffe or the Hypocrite), L'Avare ou L'École du mensonge (The Miser), Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid), and Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (The Bourgeois Gentleman'').
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Neil Simon
Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright and screenwriter. His numerous Broadway successes have led to his work being among the most regularly performed in the world.
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Nikolai Gogol
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (; ; ) (, – ) was a Ukrainian-born Russian novelist, humourist, and dramatist.
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Noel Coward
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Octave Mirbeau
Octave Mirbeau (February 16, 1848 in Trévières, Calvados - February 16, 1917) was a French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright, who achieved celebrity in Europe and great success among the public, while still appealing to the literary and artistic avant-garde. His work has been translated into thirty languages.
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Oscar Wilde
'''Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde''' (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete; who, after writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the tragedy of his imprisonment and early death.
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Ray Cooney
Raymond George Alfred Cooney, OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright and actor. His biggest success, Run For Your Wife, lasted nine years in London's West End and is its longest-running comedy. He has had 17 of his plays performed there.
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Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (eight, more than any other composer) including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. His most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins, as well as the lyrics for West Side Story and . He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.
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Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat (born 18 November 1961) is a Scottish television writer and producer.
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Tom Kempinski
Tom Kempinski (born 24 March 1938) is an English playwright and actor. He is best known for his 1980 play Duet for One, which was a major success in London and New York and which has been much revived since. Kempinski also wrote the screenplay for the movie version of Duet for One. In addition, he made minor appearances on numerous British television shows including Dixon of Dock Green and Z Cars.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564; died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
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Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (10 July 1640 – 16 April 1689) was a prolific dramatist of the Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Her writing participated in the amatory fiction genre of British literature.
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- A Marriage Proposal
- absurdity
- Adolf Opel
- Alan Ayckbourn
- Alfred Delacour
- Alfred Hennequin
- Alistair Foot
- Allmovie
- Andrew Norriss
- Anonymus
- Anthony Marriott
- Anton Chekhov
- Aphra Behn
- Arthur Murphy
- Arthur Wing Pinero
- automatic behaviour
- bedroom farce
- Ben Travers
- Big Bad Mouse
- Blithe Spirit (play)
- Boeing Boeing (play)
- Box and Cox
- Brandon Thomas
- Carl Laufs
- Cervantes Saavedra
- Chance in a Million
- Charley's Aunt
- Chaucer
- Chicken Run
- Chowder (TV series)
- comedy
- Connie Booth
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Dario Fo
- Derek Benfield
- deus ex machina
- Don Quixote
- Elizabeth Inchbald
- Ernst Bach
- Fawlty Towers
- Franz Arnold
- Frasier
- Funny Money
- genre
- Georges Feydeau
- Good Neighbor Sam
- Hay Fever
- Herbie Rides Again
- Home Alone
- Is He Dead?
- It’s Now Or Never!
- Jack Lemmon
- Jean Poiret
- Joe Orton
- John Chapman
- John Cleese
- John Maddison Morton
- Kyōgen
- La Cagnotte
- Labiche
- Larry David
- Le Dindon
- Lend Me a Tenor
- Looney Tunes
- Loot (play)
- Mark Twain
- Michael Frayn
- Michael Pertwee
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Miles Tredinnick
- mistaken identity
- Molière
- Neil Simon
- Nikolai Gogol
- Noel Coward
- Noh
- Noises Off
- Octave Mirbeau
- Oscar (1991 film)
- Oscar Wilde
- Pension Schöller
- physical comedy
- poetic justice
- Present Laughter
- pun
- Pyjama pour Six
- Rat Race (2001 film)
- Ray Cooney
- Richard Fegen
- Rumors
- satire
- Sauce for the Goose
- screwball comedy
- silent film
- sitcom
- South Park
- Stephen Sondheim
- Steven Moffat
- Tartuffe
- Thark (play)
- The Bank Dick
- The Bear (play)
- The Big Bang Theory
- The Canterbury Tales
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- The Hangover
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- The Rover (play)
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- Touch and Go (play)
- Up Pompeii!
- Ursula Lyn
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- Weekend im Paradies
- Wilhelm Jacoby
- William Shakespeare
Farce of the Penguins (2007)
"Farce of the Penguins (2007)" Actors
- Bog Saget
- Christina Applegate
- Samuel L. Jackson (narrator)
- Lewis Black
- Mo'nique
- Tracy Morgan
- Jason Biggs
- Mario Cantone
- Dane Cook
- Norm Crosby
- Dave Coulier
- Drea De Matteo
- Adam Duritz
- Harvey Fierstein
- Gilbert Gottfried
- Jonathan Katz
- Jaime Kennedy
- David Koechner
- Lori Loughlin
- Norm Macdonald
- Carlos Mencia
- Jeffrey Ross
- Jonathan Silverman
- John Stamos
- Abe Vigoda
- Damon Wayans
"Farce of the Penguins (2007)" Director
Farc, Abraham Filmography
Farc, Abrahão Filmography
- O Cheiro do Ralo (2006)
- O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias (2006)
- Cafundó (2005)
- Nina (2004)
- Marisol (2002)
- Força de Um Desejo (1999)
- A História de Ester (1998)
- A Última Semana (1996)
- Alma Corsária (1993)
- Perigo Negro (1992)
- Oswaldianas (1992)
- Mico Preto (1990)
- Vida Nova (1988)
- Vera (1987)
- Nem Tudo é Verdade (1986)
- Tudo ou Nada (1986)
- De Quina pra Lua (1985)
- Livre para Voar (1984)
- A Máfia no Brasil (1984)
- Meu Destino é Pecar (1984)
- Moinhos de Vento (1983)
- Avenida Paulista (1982)
- O Coronel e o Lobisomem (1982)
- Campeão (1982)
- Os Imigrantes - Terceira Geração (1982)
- Sadismo - Aberrações Sexuais (1981)
- O Fiel E a Pedra (1981)
- Partidas Dobradas (1981)
- A Noite das Depravadas (1981)
- Dulcinéa Vai à Guerra (1980)
- Ato de Violência (1980)
- Gaivotas (1979)
- O Estripador de Mulheres (1978)
- Salário Mínimo (1978)
- Belas e Corrompidas (1977)
- Tiradentes, O Mártir da Independência (1977)
- O Profeta (1977)
- Excitação (1976)
- O Julgamento (1976)
- Xeque-Mate (1976)
- O Mulherengo (1976)
- Cada um Dá o que Tem (1975)
- O Predileto (1975)
- A Viagem (1975)
- Ovelha Negra (1975)
- O Machão - Um Exagero de Homem (1974)
- Ídolo de Pano (1974)
- O Detetive Bolacha Contra o Gênio do Crime (1973)
- Camomila e Bem-Me-Quer (1972)
- Na Idade do Lobo (1972)
- Bel Amy (1972)
- Nossa Filha Gabriela (1971)
- Bang Bang (1971)
- O Meu Pé de Laranja Lima (1970)
- Em Cada Coração um Punhal (1970)
- A Mulher de Todos (1969)
- As Amorosas (1968)
- Anuska, Manequim e Mulher (1968)
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The Walworth Farce
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- Duration: 1:11
- Published: 08 Oct 2008
- Uploaded: 20 May 2011
- Author: NationalTheatre
'An unsettling but exhilarating blend of the hilarious with the horrifying. The Irish Times Ferociously entertaining. The New York Times Its 11 oclock in the morning in a council flat on the Walworth Road. In two hours' time, as is normal, three Irish men will have consumed six cans of Harp, 15 crackers with spreadable cheese and one oven-cooked chicken with a strange blue sauce. In two hours' time, as is normal, five people will have been killed. Direct from a critically acclaimed run in New York, this remarkable play by Enda Walsh delivers an achingly tender insight into what happens when we become stuck in the stories we tell ourselves about our lives. At the National Theatre until 29 November 2008.
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DELTA FARCE -- Trailer
Larry the Cable Guy joins Bill Engvall and DJ Qualls in Lionsgate's DELTA FARCE, a hilarious new comedy about three blue collar heroes on the military's front line. Down on his luck after losing his job and his girlfriend on the same day, Larry decides to join his neighbor, Bill (Bill Engvall), and his combat-happy buddy, Everett (DJ Qualls), for a relaxing weekend of drinking and target practice. But when the three hapless guys are mistaken for Army Reservists by the hard-nosed Sergeant Kilgrove (Keith David), they're loaded onto an army plane headed for Fallujah, Iraq -- and mistakenly ejected in a Humvee somewhere over Mexico. Convinced they're actually in the Middle East, the clueless wannabe soldiers save a rural village from a siege of bandits and become local heroes. But when Carlos Santana (Danny Trejo), a ruthless, karaoke-loving warlord, strikes back, Larry, Bill and Everett have to lay down their beers and take up their arms -- and prove they just might be real soldiers after all...
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Canada Customs-Royal Canadian Air Farce
A skit about how it's like to go through Canadian Customs.
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RSA Animate - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
In this short RSA Animate, renowned philosopher Slavoj Zizek investigates the surprising ethical implications of charitable giving.
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Capriccio Farce [8 VOCALOIDs] English Sub
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- Duration: 4:59
- Published: 29 Oct 2011
- Uploaded: 08 Feb 2012
- Author: HopeandJoy9
Most. Confusing. Visual Novel. Ever. Song: Capriccio Farce Music/Lyrics: mothy Singers: MEIKO KAITO Hatsune Miku Kagamine Rin Kagamine Len Kamui Gakupo Megurine Luka GUMI Translation: MscheekymonkeyX
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Jeffrey Buttle on Air Farce Live
Jeffrey Buttle on Air Farce, March 28, 2008
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Financial Reform Bill is a Joke -- Economic Collapse Coming
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- Duration: 10:37
- Published: 25 May 2010
- Uploaded: 16 Jan 2012
- Author: TheYoungTurks
Sign petition here: act.boldprogressives.org RSVP for the protest here: www.facebook.com Read Cenk's Blog on why Goldman should give the money back: www.theyoungturks.com Special Promotion: www.netflix.com New TYT Facebook Page(!): www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com TYT Network (new WTF?! channel): www.youtube.com Check Out TYT Interviews www.youtube.com Watch more at www.theyoungturks.com
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Rudimentary Peni - Farce EP (1982)
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- Duration: 13:55
- Published: 29 Sep 2010
- Uploaded: 09 Feb 2012
- Author: RadioSchizoUT
Original vinyl version. Released on Crass Records/Rough Trade. You can find these songs on their "Ep's of Rp" cd. 1. Sacrifice 2. Cosmetic Plague 3. Subdued Violence 4. The Bile Ball 5. Only Human 6. Farce 7. Blood Jellies 8. Mice Race 9. Defined by Age 10. Zero Again 11. Bubble Download at polishnightmare.blogspot.com Lyrics at http
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Rudimentary Peni - Farce
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- Duration: 1:42
- Published: 27 Aug 2011
- Uploaded: 08 Feb 2012
- Author: ThePhilistein
from the Farce ep
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Politically Correct Christmas - Royal Canadian Air Farce
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- Duration: 2:30
- Published: 24 Dec 2008
- Uploaded: 29 Dec 2011
- Author: catchburns
This episode of Royal Canadian Air Farce aired in 2002.
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"US/Canada Border" Royal Canadian Air Farce Skit
Crossing the US border. So true!
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Episode 38 - Magnum Farce
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- Duration: 6:24
- Published: 10 Apr 2009
- Uploaded: 09 Feb 2012
- Author: CardGamesFTW
Xena vs Xenu. Place your bets.
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Slavoj Zizek - First as Tragedy, Then as Farce
Slavoj Zizek, one of the worlds most influential living philosophers, visits the RSA to discuss capitalism's flawed priorities.
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Air Farce remembers Jack Layton (1950-2011)
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- Duration: 3:33
- Published: 25 Aug 2011
- Uploaded: 07 Feb 2012
- Author: AirFarceNYE2010
Air Farce may have taken some shots over the years at Jack Layton and the NDP, but he was always a great sport and a friend of the show. In our final season, he surprised the studio audience with this walk-on appearance. From Friday, October 31, 2008, here are Jack Layton and Don Ferguson on Royal Canadian Air Farce. Thanks for playing with us, Jack, and may the Farce be with you! (Visit www.airfarce.com for more Air Farce memories.)
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Royal Canadian Air Farce: The Macintoshes
This is a classic skit done by the Royal Canadian Air Farce on Januaray 26, 1996 entitled "The Macintoshes". A Scottish lad from the McIntosh clan discovers the wife he has choosen is 'incompatible'. It features Roger Abbot, Luba Goy, and the Late great John Morgan.
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wwe raw clinton vs. obama
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- Duration: 4:18
- Published: 22 Apr 2008
- Uploaded: 04 Feb 2012
- Author: dantube100
clinton vs. obama
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Obama's budget farce, German takeover of the NYSE
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- Duration: 9:56
- Published: 16 Feb 2011
- Uploaded: 21 Jan 2012
- Author: SchiffReport
Schiff Report video blog Feb 15th 2011 www.schiffradio.com www.europac.net
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(2002) the air farce chicken cannon target of the year
cbc's royal canadian air farce chooses the target for the year end shooting by the chicken-cannon. (from the 2002 year-end special)
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"Bedroom Farce" by Alan Ayckbourn - Scene with Jan and Nick
The Spring Lake Theatre Company - Spring Lake, New Jersey 2000 Lauren J. Cooke as Jan
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The Debt Ceiling Farce
President Obama has put the country on notice that he can't guarantee Social Security and other government checks will go out if the debt ceiling isn't raised by Aug. 2.
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AP / Fernando Vergara![La Mancha, the homeland of Don Quixote, Farce makes use of punning and similar verbal playfulness. Character-naming in Don Quixote makes ample figural use of contradiction, inversion, and irony, such as the names Rocinante[3] (a reversal) and Dulcinea (an allusion to illusion)](http://web.archive.org./web/20120304224949im_/http://cdn5.wn.com/pd/74/d4/9717c14626015ecd368fee11a279_small.jpg "La Mancha, the homeland of Don Quixote, Farce makes use of punning and similar verbal playfulness. Character-naming in Don Quixote makes ample figural use of contradiction, inversion, and irony, such as the names Rocinante[3] (a reversal) and Dulcinea (an allusion to illusion)")
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In theatre, a farce is a comedy which aims to entertain the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene. Farce is also characterized by physical humor, the use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense, and broadly stylized performances. Farces have been written for the stage and film.
Anonymus: ''The Second Shepherds' Play'' (14th century)
Chaucer: "The Canterbury Tales" (14th century)
William Shakespeare: ''The Comedy of Errors'' (ca.1592)
Aphra Behn: ''The Rover (play)'' (1677)
Arthur Murphy: ''The Citizen'' (1761)
Elizabeth Inchbald: ''Appearance Is Against Them'' (1785); ''The Wedding Day'' (1794)
John Maddison Morton: ''Box and Cox'' (1847)
Arthur Wing Pinero: ''The Magistrate'' (1885)
Brandon Thomas: ''Charley's Aunt'' (1892)
Oscar Wilde: ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' (1895)
Ben Travers: ''Thark'' (1927)
Noel Coward: ''Hay Fever'' (1925); ''Present Laughter'' (1939); ''Blithe Spirit'' (1941)
Philip King: ''See How They Run'' (1945) ''Big Bad Mouse'' (1957)
Joe Orton: ''Loot'' (1967) ''What the Butler Saw'' (1969)
Michael Pertwee: ''Don't Just Lie There, Say Something!'' (1971)
Anthony Marriott & Alistair Foot: ''No Sex Please, We're British'' (1975)
John Cleese & Connie Booth: ''Fawlty Towers'' (1975)
John Chapman & Anthony Marriott: ''Shut Your Eyes and Think of England'' (1977)
Derek Benfield: ''Touch and Go'' (1982)
Michael Frayn: ''Noises Off'' (1982)
Nigel Williams: ''W.C.P.C.'' (1982)
Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen: ''Chance in a Million'' (1984)
Miles Tredinnick: ''Laugh? I Nearly Went To Miami!'' (1986)
Alan Ayckbourn: ''A Small Family Business'' (1987)
Miles Tredinnick: ''It’s Now Or Never!'' (1991)
Tom Kempinski: ''Sex Please, We're Italian!'' (1991)
Ray Cooney: ''Funny Money'' (1994)
Steven Moffat: ''Coupling'' (2001)
Miles Tredinnick: ''Up Pompeii!'' (2011)
''The Boy and the Blind Man'', 13th century, oldest written French farce.
''La Farce de maître Pierre Pathelin'' (c. 1460)
Molière: ''Tartuffe'' (1664)
Labiche: ''La Cagnotte'' (1864)and other plays.
Alfred Hennequin and Alfred Delacour: ''Le Procès Veauradieux'' (1875)
Georges Feydeau: ''Le Dindon'' (1896) (aka ''Sauce for the Goose'')
Octave Mirbeau : ''Farces et moralités'' (1904).
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Nikolai Gogol ''The Government Inspector'' (also translated as ''The Inspector General'')
Anton Chekhov ''A Marriage Proposal'' and ''The Bear''
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Many farces move at a frantic pace toward the climax, in which the initial problem is resolved one way or another, often through a ''deus ex machina'' twist of the plot. Generally, there is a happy ending. The convention of poetic justice is not always observed: The protagonist may get away with what he or she has been trying to hide at all costs, even if it is a criminal act.
Farce in general is highly tolerant of transgressive behaviour, and tends to depict human beings as vain, irrational, venal, infantile, neurotic and prone to automatic behaviour. In that respect, farce is a natural companion of satire. Farce is, in fact, not merely a genre but a highly flexible dramatic mode that often occurs in combination with other forms, including romantic comedy. Farce is considered a theatre tradition.
As far as ridiculous, far-fetched situations, quick and witty repartee, and broad physical humor are concerned, farce is widely employed in TV sitcoms, in silent film comedy, and in screwball comedy. See also bedroom farce.
Japan has a centuries-old tradition of farce plays called Kyōgen. These plays are performed as comic relief during the long, serious Noh plays.
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United States
Canada
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| Coordinates | 37°46′45.48″N122°25′9.12″N |
|---|---|
| name | Jeffrey Buttle |
| country | |
| fullname | Jeffrey Buttle |
| birth date | September 01, 1982 |
| birth place | Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario, Canada |
| hometown | Barrie, Ontario, Canada |
| residence | Barrie, Ontario, Canada |
| height | |
| formercoach | Lee Barkell Rafael Arutunian Doug Leigh Wendy Philion |
| formerchoreographer | David Wilson |
| skating club | Sudbury SC |
| retired | September 10, 2008 |
| combined total | 245.17 |
| combined date | 2008 Worlds |
| sp score | 83.85 |
| sp date | 2008 Four Continents |
| fs score | 163.07 |
| fs date | 2008 Worlds |
| Medaltemplates | }} |
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Jeffrey Buttle (born September 1, 1982) is a Canadian figure skater. He is the 2006 Winter Olympics bronze medalist, the 2008 World champion, the 2002 & 2004 Four Continents champion and the 2005-2007 Canadian champion. On March 22, 2008, Buttle became the first Canadian man since Elvis Stojko in 1997 to win the World Title. He announced his retirement from competitive skating on September 10, 2008.
Personal life
Jeffrey Buttle was born in Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario and began skating at age two and competing at age six. He did competitive ballet to improve his skating. He also competed in ice dancing with his older sister Meghan. During his career, he lived in Barrie, Ontario and trained at the Mariposa School of Skating.He attended École Don Bosco, a French-language elementary school. While Buttle's family is not French-Canadian, Buttle attended French language schools as a child and is bilingual in English and French. He studied chemical engineering at the University of Toronto part-time before taking time off to focus on his skating.
Career
Early career
Buttle won the silver medal on the junior level at the Canadian Championships in 1998. The next year, he placed in the top ten at his first senior nationals. He rose steadily through the ranks, gaining experience on the junior level. He made his senior international debut in the 2001–2002 season, making his mark immediately by winning the silver medal at the 2001 NHK Trophy behind Takeshi Honda. At the Canadian Championships, Buttle made his first run on the podium and placed third. It earned him a trip to Korea for the Four Continents, where he won his first gold medal.Buttle's bronze medal finish at Nationals caused him to be named first alternate to the Canadian 2002 Olympic figure skating team. However, silver medalist Emanuel Sandhu withdrew too late from the competition for Buttle to replace him, so Buttle did not compete. Instead, he went to the 2002 Worlds and placed high enough to earn Canada two spots to the next World Championships.
The next season, Buttle repeated his podium finish at Nationals, but was unable to defend his title at Four Continents. He worked to turn things around in the 2003–2004 season. He won his first Grand Prix gold medal at 2003 NHK Trophy, followed by his second silver, at 2003 Bofrost Cup on Ice. Buttle qualified for the Grand Prix Final, but was forced to withdraw. After that setback, he had a disappointing Nationals and did not earn a spot to Worlds. Buttle was instead sent to the Four Continents, which he won for the second time. Buttle spent that summer training in Lake Arrowhead with Rafael Arutunian, who would remain as his secondary coach with Lee Barkell. He recovered in the 2004–2005 season. He qualified for the Grand Prix Final a second time and won the silver medal. He went on to win his first National title. He finished the year with a silver medal at the 2005 Worlds.
Senior success
In the 2005–2006 Olympics season, Buttle won the 2005 Trophée Eric Bompard and came in second at the 2005 Skate Canada. He had a wardrobe malfunction at Skate Canada when his pants split during his performance. With a gold and a silver medal, he qualified for the 2005–2006 Grand Prix Final and captured his second consecutive silver medal at that competition. He went on to win his second National title at the 2006 Canadian Championships and went into the Olympics as the reigning World silver medalist. While not a favorite to win, he was a favorite to medal.
At the Olympics, Buttle's short program left him in sixth place going into the free skate. Two days later, during the free skate, Buttle fell on his attempt at a quad toe jump and then put a hand down on the ice after a triple axel. After this inauspicious beginning, he pulled himself together to pull off a personal best and place second in the free skate, third overall, winning Canada's first bronze medal in men's figure skating since Toller Cranston in 1976. Buttle later said that he kept thinking of winning a medal in his short program but later focused on simply enjoying himself in the free skate program, and it paid off.
After the Olympics, Buttle went on to the 2006 Worlds, held in Calgary. He placed sixth.
Buttle withdrew from the 2006 Grand Prix series due to a stress fracture in his back. He began his season at the 2007 Canadian Championships, where he won his third consecutive national title. After Nationals, Buttle went on to the 2007 Four Continents in Colorado. He was the leader after the short program, and became the first male under the Code of Points system to gain level fours on all spins and footwork. A disappointing free skate in which he only did a double axel without combination and a single on the second attempt left him with the silver medal, behind American Evan Lysacek.
Buttle then competed at the 2007 Worlds. In his second international competition of the season, Buttle was second after the short program with a new personal best. He placed eighth in the free skate, dropping down to sixth place overall. His placement, combined with that of Christopher Mabee, earned Canada two spots to the 2008 World Championships.
For the 2007–2008 season, Buttle started off slow, placing third and fourth at his two Grand Prix events. At Nationals, despite taking the lead after the short program, he ended up losing his title to a rising star Patrick Chan. At the 2008 Four Continents, after a third place finish in the short program, Buttle went on to place second in the long and consequently won the silver medal.
At the 2008 Worlds, Buttle surprised everyone by edging out the deep field to place first in the short program. He then went on to deliver his best ever performance to win the gold medal by a 13.95 point margin of victory over silver medalist Brian Joubert. Following his win at Worlds, Buttle appeared as a guest on many TV shows including CBC's ''Air Farce Live''.
Buttle was initially assigned to the 2008 Skate Canada and 2008 Cup of China for the 2008-2009 season. He announced his retirement from competitive skating on September 10, 2008, saying that he had achieved his goals in skating, and competing was no longer in his heart.
Skate Canada published ''Jeffrey Buttle Tribute Book'' in December 15, 2008. In September 2009, Buttle has published a second book about him, ''Jeffrey Buttle Artist Book chapter TWO'' in Japan.
Since 2005, Buttle has toured with Canadian Stars on Ice during the off-season. He appeared in the 2009 US "Smuckers Stars on Ice" tour and has skated in several shows in Japan, Korea, and Europe.
Buttle served as the athlete representative on the Skate Canada Officials Advisory Committee.
Buttle has choreographed programs for Kim Yu-Na, Kwak Min-Jung, Yun Yea-Ji, Lauren Wilson, Karen Zhou, and Fedor Andreev. Other clients include Jeremy Ten (''A Single Man''), Brandon Mroz (''Mack the Knife''), Max Aaron (''Assassin's Tango/Oblivion''), and Paolo Bonifacio Parkinson.
Programs
| ! Season | ! Short program | ! Free skating | ! Exhibition |
| ! 2007–2008 | Adiós Nonino by Astor Piazolla Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo |
Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash Go The Distance (soundtrack) by Michael Bolton Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo |
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| ! 2006-2007 | Adiós Nonino by Astor Piazolla | ||
| ! 2005–2006 | Sing, Sing, Sing by Louis Prima | Feeling Good by Michael Bublé Fix You by Coldplay Ave Maria by The East Village Opera Company |
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| ! 2004-2005 | Naqoyqatsi by Philip Glass | Hurt (Nine Inch Nails song) | |
| ! 2003-2004 | [[Take Five by Paul Desmond | Do Nothing til You Hear from Me by Robbie Williams Angels by Robbie Williams Lonely Christmas Eve by Ben Folds Five |
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| ! 2002-2003 | Conspiracy Theory soundtrack by Carter Burwell | Cello Concerto in E Minor by Elgar | Seven Days by Craig David Angels by Robbie Williams Lonely Christmas Eve by Ben Folds Five |
| ! 2001-2002 | The Last Emperor soundtrack by Ryuichi Sakamoto | ||
Competitive highlights
| Event | ! 1998–99 | ! 1999–00 | ! 2000–01 | ! 2001–02 | ! 2002–03 | ! 2003–04 | ! 2004–05 | ! 2005–06 | ! 2006–07 | ! 2007–08 | ||
| Figure skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics | Winter Olympic Games | | | 3rd | |||||||||
| World Figure Skating Championships | World Championships | | | 8th | 15th | 2nd | 6th | 6th | 1st | ||||
| Four Continents Figure Skating Championships | Four Continents Championships | | | 1st | 4th | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | |||||
| World Junior Figure Skating Championships | World Junior Championships | | | 7th | |||||||||
| Canadian Figure Skating Championships | Canadian Championships | align="center" bgcolor="silver">2nd J.| | 10th | 6th | 9th | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 1st | 1st | 1st | 2nd |
| Grand Prix Final | | | WD | 2nd | 2nd | ||||||||
| Skate Canada International | Skate Canada | | | 7th | 2nd | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | |||||
| Cup of Russia | | | 4th | ||||||||||
| Trophée Eric Bompard | | | 1st | ||||||||||
| Cup of China | | | 1st | ||||||||||
| NHK Trophy | | | 2nd | 5th | 1st | ||||||||
| Bofrost Cup on Ice | | | 2nd | ||||||||||
| Nebelhorn Trophy | | | 7th | 2nd | |||||||||
| Karl Schaefer Memorial | | | 3rd | ||||||||||
| 2000–2001 ISU Junior Grand Prix | Junior Grand Prix, China | | | 4th | |||||||||
| 2000–2001 ISU Junior Grand Prix | Junior Grand Prix, Ukraine | | | 3rd | |||||||||
| 1999–2000 ISU Junior Grand Prix | Junior Grand Prix, Japan | | | 6th | |||||||||
| 1999–2000 ISU Junior Grand Prix | Junior Grand Prix, Slovenia | | | 4th | |||||||||
| 1998–1999 ISU Junior Grand Prix | Junior Grand Prix, Germany | | | 6th |
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| Coordinates | 37°46′45.48″N122°25′9.12″N |
|---|---|
| name | Royal Canadian Air Farce |
| medium | Television, Radio, Theatre, Audio Recordings,Home Video |
| nationality | Canada (7 members) |
| active | 1970-2011 |
| genre | Sketch comedy, Political satire |
| notable work | ''Royal Canadian Air Farce'', radio (1973-1997), TV (1980-2007)''Air Farce Live'' TV (2007-December 31, 2008) |
| current members | Don Ferguson Luba Goy Jessica Holmes Craig Lauzon Alan Park Penelope Corrin See also: ''Cast history'' |
| past members | Roger Abbott Dave Broadfoot Martin Bronstein John Morgan |
| website | www.airfarce.com |
| footnotes | }} |
The Royal Canadian Air Farce was a comedy troupe best known for their radio and television series which were broadcast in Canada by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
History
Theatre revue and radio years
The group started in Montreal, Quebec in 1970 as an improvisational theatre revue called ''The Jest Society'', a pun on then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's famous goal of making Canada a "Just Society". The original cast was John Morgan, Martin Bronstein, Patrick Conlon, Gay Claitman and Roger Abbott.After a number of personnel changes, the group became "The Royal Canadian Air Farce" as early as 1973, broadcasting through CBC Radio from the Curtain Club in Richmond Hill, Ontario. The CBC gives the date of the first broadcast as December 9, 1973. By this time the lineup consisted of Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson, Luba Goy, John Morgan, Dave Broadfoot and Martin Bronstein. They quickly became one of the network's most popular programs. Most of their later shows were based in Toronto and recorded in CBC's Cabbagetown Studios; however as the troupe became more popular, they frequently travelled throughout the country to record their weekly radio broadcasts, which featured a mixture of political and cultural satire.
Bronstein left the troupe in 1974 to pursue a full time journalism career. In 1977, non-performing writers Gord Holtam and Rick Olsen joined the crew. In the late 1970s during a trip to Los Angeles, Abbott and Ferguson were offered jobs writing for the new television sitcom ''Taxi'', but opted to remain with ''Air Farce'' instead.
Recurring characters included addle-brained hockey player Big Bobby Clobber (Broadfoot), Sgt. Renfrew of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Broadfoot) and socialite Amy De La Pompa (Morgan), along with political figures such as Brian Mulroney, Joe Clark and Pierre Trudeau. Additional characters included Prof. Hieronymus Wombat of the National Research Council, and funeral director Hector Baggley.
Another recurring character, making vacant-minded political comments, was the Honourable David J. Broadfoot, member of Parliament for Kicking Horse Pass, and leader of the New Apathetic Party. Broadfoot had been performing as this character for years, and had appeared on Canadian and American television as "The Honourable Member" as early as the 1950s, long before his tenure with Air Farce.
Some popular sketches in the late 1980s and early 1990s included "joint broadcasts" by CTV and CBC, overlaying opening theme music. When ''The Journal'' debuted on CBC in 1982, Air Farce spoofed the program's repeated use of the "sounder", and the use of satellite to connect people to talk to one another (including husband in living room to wife in the kitchen), as well as the seeming similarity between original hosts Barbara Frum and Mary Lou Finlay.
Trying out TV
The Farce troupe recorded a one-hour television special in 1980, which evolved into a ten-week series and two sequel specials in addition to their regular radio series. The shows were essentially staged versions of the radio show, with many of the sketches performed in front of a live studio audience, the cast members reading from scripts rather than acting out the roles. Despite the decent ratings for the initial special, simply staging the radio sketches did not translate well on television.In the early 1980s, Air Farce's summer radio hiatus periods were filled by another comedy troupe, The Frantics, who later moved on to their own TV series, ''Four on the Floor''. Later summer hiatus periods, however, were filled by Ferguson and Abbott playing classic comedy recordings. In the late 1980s, CBC Radio launched another 30-minutes weekly political satire, ''Double Exposure''. Though the programs were never in direct competition, some found the latter show fresher and edgier.
Broadfoot retired from the troupe in the late 1980s, although he continued to make guest appearances with Air Farce for many years afterward, on both radio and TV. Barbara Budd was also a frequent guest of the troupe, appearing in many radio episodes of the 1980s and early 1990s, although she was never an official cast member.
Success with TV
In 1992, Air Farce took a second plunge into television with ''1992: Year of the Farce'', a satirical New Year's Eve special. A ratings smash, the special led the troupe to produce another weekly television series, which debuted in 1993. However, this time the move to television was permanent. The radio series continued alongside the TV show for four seasons until May 1997, when it was discontinued.The practice of having a show on New Year's Eve continued to the end of the program, and such episodes were typically titled "Year of the Farce". In recent years, Air Farce also had the honour of counting down the seconds before the New Year on CBC.
Recurring characters on the TV series included the slow Albertan Mike, from Canmore (Morgan) and angry Scot Jock McBile (Morgan), self-righteous movie critic Gilbert Smythe Bite-Me (Abbott), and chain-smoking bingo player Brenda (Goy). Though these characters would occasionally feature in skits of their own, usually they were used at the beginning of the show to deliver a stream of one liner jokes commentating on the news of that week.
The show also featured frequent skits with politicians, who were portrayed as various extreme caricatures of their most infamous personality quirks. Notable re-occurring figures included Prime Minister Jean Chrétien (Abbott), who could barely speak a single sentence of English without committing at least a dozen outlandish pronunciation and grammatical errors; the nasally-voiced Preston Manning (Ferguson) who loved to shout "REFOOOOOOORM!"; a screaming, bitchy Sheila Copps (Goy); the tyrannical Lucien Bouchard; the dopey and overly-image conscious Stockwell Day; the strutting, clucking, pompous Joe Clark; and the power-hungry Paul Martin (all Ferguson). Many of the real politicians also made guest appearances on the show, often interacting directly with their parodic counterparts: for example, in one sketch late in the show's run, Ferguson played Jack Layton answering questions at a press conference; midway through the sketch he requested a moment to consult with his "top advisor", and out came the real Jack Layton.
However, Colonel "Teresa" Stacy (Ferguson) quickly emerged as the show's most popular character—each time he appeared, Stacy would load up the Chicken Cannon and fire rubber chickens and other assorted projectiles at whomever he deemed the most annoying public figure of the week (or year).
Morgan retired from Air Farce in 2001, and the remaining three members carried on with a rotating stable of guest stars until Jessica Holmes joined the show in 2003. Holmes added celebrity figures such as Paris Hilton and Liza Minnelli, and Canadian politicians such as Belinda Stronach, to the troupe's roster of characters.
Later, in 2005, after a lockout at CBC, Air Farce gained two new cast members, who had previously appeared on the show as recurring guest stars: Alan Park and Craig Lauzon. The addition of these two newcomers brought the total number of performers in the troupe to six. Park initially only signed on to do rant-like segments, saying in interviews that he'd never play a character, but ended up taking on roles including Barack Obama. Lauzon regularly portrayed Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, taking his stiff public persona and creating a generally robotic character.
While the show was held up as ''de facto'' Canadian tradition, some critics felt that the television show's quality had diminished over the past few seasons, especially since the breakdown of the original four-actor quartet. However, it still continued to draw solid ratings each week.
On March 30, 2007, the Air Farce celebrated their 300th episode by doing the show on live television (except in Western Canada) for one hour. Roger Abbott and Luba Goy began the show with a brief history of the show, closing with "the scariest three words on television: AIR FARCE LIVE!".
After this experimental episode, CBC announced that the 15th season of the series would be aired live for the entire season, with a name change to ''Air Farce Live''. With the new live format, Penelope Corrin, who filled in for Holmes during her pregnancy in early 2007, officially joined the troupe, increasing its number to seven.
Abbott, Morgan, Goy, Ferguson, and Broadfoot had cameo appearances in ''The Red Green Show'''s movie spinoff ''Duct Tape Forever''.
On April 1, 2008, the CBC and Air Farce jointly announced that the Royal Canadian Air Farce would wrap up its weekly television show in the 2008/2009 season. The plan as announced was for nine new Air Farce shows to be produced for the fall of 2008, and then the series would end with a New Year's Eve special at the end of 2008.
Reunion specials
Air Farce returned on December 31, 2009 for a New Year's special, featuring the return of most of the original cast (excluding Jessica Holmes, Gord Holtam, and Rick Olsen), guest appearances by Peter Mansbridge, ''Battle of the Blades'' winners Jamie Salé and Craig Simpson, and the Dragons of ''Dragons' Den''. The special also featured the successor to the Chicken Cannon, the "F-Bombs," which was dropped onto photographs from the top of the atrium of the Canadian Broadcasting Centre.Another special aired on December 31, 2010.
Roger Abbott died of leukemia on March 26, 2011.
Cast history
Original members
Later additions
Frequent guest
Members of the Jest Society
Discography
The Air Farce released eight comedy albums during its radio days, all of which are available on the Air Farce website (1).
Awards
Royal Canadian Air Farce has received the following awards and nominations:
See also
References
External links
* Category:CBC Radio One programs Category:CBC Radio 2 programs Category:Canadian radio comedy Category:Radio sketch shows Category:Juno Award winners
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| Coordinates | 37°46′45.48″N122°25′9.12″N |
|---|---|
| name | Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE |
| birth date | April 12, 1939 |
| birth place | Hampstead, London |
| occupation | Playwright and director |
| nationality | British |
| period | 1959– |
| website | http://www.alanayckbourn.net }} |
Major successes include ''Absurd Person Singular'' (1975), ''The Norman Conquests'' trilogy (1973), ''Bedroom Farce'' (1975), ''Just Between Ourselves'' (1976), ''A Chorus of Disapproval'' (1984), ''Woman in Mind'' (1985), ''A Small Family Business'' (1987), ''Man Of The Moment'' (1988), ''House'' & ''Garden'' (1999) and ''Private Fears in Public Places'' (2004). His plays have won numerous awards, including seven London ''Evening Standard'' Awards. They have been translated into over 35 languages and are performed on stage and television throughout the world. Ten of his plays have been staged on Broadway, attracting two Tony nominations, and one Tony award.
Life
Childhood
Ayckbourn was born in Hampstead, London. His mother Irene Worley ("Lolly") was a writer of short stories who published under the name "Mary James". His father, Horace Ayckbourn, was an orchestral violinist, at one time deputy leader of the London Symphony Orchestra. His parents, who separated shortly after World War II, never married, and Ayckbourn's mother divorced her ''first'' husband to marry again in 1948.Ayckbourn wrote his first play at Wisborough Lodge (a preparatory school in the village of Wisborough Green) when he was about 10. While at prep school as a boarder his mother wrote to tell him she was marrying Cecil Pye, a bank manager, and when he was at home for the holidays his new family consisted of his mother, his stepfather and Christopher, his stepfather's son by an earlier marriage. This relationship too, reportedly ran into difficulties early on. Biographer Paul Allen has compared characters and themes in Ayckbourn's mature plays with his childhood experience of several unconventional relationships and an unhappy marriage.
Ayckbourn attended Haileybury, in the village of Hertford Heath, and while there toured Europe and America with the school's Shakespeare company.
Adult life
After leaving school at 17, Ayckbourn's career took several temporary jobs in various places before starting a temporary job at the Scarborough Library Theatre, where he was introduced to the artistic director, Stephen Joseph. It is said that Joseph became both a mentor and father figure for Ayckbourn until his untimely death in 1967, and he has consistently spoken highly of him.Ayckbourn's career was briefly interrupted when he was called for National Service. He was swiftly discharged, officially on medical grounds, but it is suggested that a doctor who noticed his reluctance to join the Armed Forces deliberately failed the medical as a favour. Although Ayckbourn continued to move where his career took him, he settled in Scarborough, eventually buying Longwestgate House, the house formerly owned by Stephen Joseph.
In 1957, Ayckbourn married Christine Roland, another member of the Library Theatre company, and indeed Ayckbourn's first two plays were written jointly with her under the pseudonym of "Roland Allen". They had two sons, Steven and Philip. However, the marriage had difficulties which eventually led to their separation in 1971. Alan Ayckbourn said that his relationship with Christine became easy once they agreed their marriage was over. Around this time, he started to share a home with Heather Stoney, an actress he had first met ten years earlier. Like his mother, neither he nor Christine sought a divorce for the next thirty years and it was only in 1997 that they formally divorced; Ayckbourn married Heather Stoney. One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.
In February 2006, he suffered a stroke in Scarborough, and stated: "I hope to be back on my feet, or should I say my left leg, as soon as possible, but I know it is going to take some time. In the meantime I am in excellent hands and so is the Stephen Joseph Theatre." He left hospital after eight weeks and returned to directing after six months, but the following year he announced he would step down as Artistic Director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre. Ayckbourn, however, continues to write and direct his own work at the theatre.
Influence on plays
Since Alan Ayckbourn's plays started becoming established in the West End, interviewers have raised the question of whether his work is autobiographical. There is no clear answer to this question. There has only been one biography, written by Paul Allen, and this primarily covers his career in the theatre. Ayckbourn has frequently said he sees aspects of himself in all his characters. For example, in ''Bedroom Farce'' (1975), he admitted to being, in some respects, all four of the men in the play. It has been suggested that, after Ayckbourn himself, the person who is used the most in his plays is his mother, particularly as Susan in ''Woman in Mind'' (1985).What is less clear is how much influence events in Ayckbourn's life have had on his writing. It is true that the theme of marriages in various difficulties was heavily present throughout his plays in the early seventies, around the time his own marriage was coming to an end. However, by this time, he had also witnessed the failures of his parents' relationships as well as those of some of his friends. Which relationships, if any, he drew on for his plays, is unclear. In Paul Allen’s biography, Ayckbourn is briefly compared to Dafydd and Guy in ''A Chorus of Disapproval'' (1984). Both characters feel themselves in trouble, and there was speculation that Alan Ayckbourn himself may have felt himself to be in trouble. At the time, he had reportedly become seriously involved with another actress, which threatened his relationship with Heather Stoney. But again, it is unclear whether this had any effect on the writing, and Paul Allen's view is that it is not current experience that Ayckbourn uses for his plays.
It could be that Ayckbourn had written plays with himself and his own issues in mind, but as Ayckbourn is portrayed as a guarded and private man, it is hard to imagine him exposing his own life in his plays to any great degree. In the biography, Paul Allen wrote, regarding a suggestion in ''Cosmopolitan'' that his plays were becoming autobiographical: "If we take that to mean that his plays tell his own life story, he still hasn't started."
Career
Early career and acting
On leaving school his theatrical career started immediately, with an introduction to Sir Donald Wolfit by his French master. Ayckbourn joined Wolfit on tour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as an acting assistant stage manager (meaning a role that involved both acting and stage management) for three weeks, with his first role on the professional stage being various parts in ''The Strong are Lonely'' by Fritz Hochwälder. In the following year, Ayckbourn appeared in six other plays at the Connaught Theatre, Worthing, and the Thorndyke theatre, Leatherhead.In 1957, Ayckbourn was employed by the director Stephen Joseph at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, the predecessor to the modern Stephen Joseph Theatre. His role, again, was initially an acting stage manager. This employment led to Ayckbourn's first professional script commission, in 1958. When he complained about the quality of a script he was performing, Joseph challenged him to write a better one. The result was ''The Square Cat'', written under the pseudonym Roland Allen and first performed in 1959. In this play, Ayckbourn himself played the character Jerry Watiss.
After thirty-four appearances in plays at the Library Theatre, including four of his own, in 1962 Ayckbourn moved to Stoke-on-Trent to help set up the Victoria Theatre, (now the New Vic), where he appeared in a further eighteen plays. His final appearance in one of his own plays was as the Crimson Gollywog in the disastrous children's play ''Christmas v Mastermind''. He left the Stoke company in 1964, officially to commit his time to the London production of ''Mr. Whatnot'', but reportedly because was having trouble working with the artistic director, Peter Cheeseman. By now, his career as a writer was coming to fruition, and his acting career was sidelined.
His final role on stage was as Jerry in ''Two for the Seesaw'' by William Gibson, at the Civic Theatre in Rotherham. He was left stranded on stage because Heather Stoney was unable to re-appear because the props had been left unpacked, and this led him to decide acting was more trouble than it was worth. The assistant stage manager on the production, Bill Kenwright, would become one of the UK's most successful producers.
Writing
Alan Ayckbourn's earliest plays were written and produced at a time when the Scarborough Library theatre, like most regional theatres, regularly commissioned work from their own actors to keep costs down (the other notable actor whose work was being commissioned being David Campton). His first play, ''The Square Cat'', was sufficiently popular locally to secure further commissions, but neither this nor the following three plays had any major impact outside of Scarborough. But, after his transfer to Victoria Theatre in Stoke-on-Trent, there came ''Christmas v Mastermind'', which flopped and is now universally regarded as Ayckbourn's greatest disaster.His fortunes began to revive in 1963 with ''Mr. Whatnot'', again premièring at the Victoria Theatre. This was the first play that Ayckbourn was sufficiently happy with to allow performances today, and the first play to receive a West End performance. However, the West End production flopped, in part down to misguided casting. After this, Ayckbourn experimented by collaborating with comedians, first writing a monologue for Tommy Cooper, and later with Ronnie Barker, who played Lord Slingsby-Craddock in the London production of ''Mr Whatnot'' in 1964, for the scripts of for LWT's ''Hark at Barker''. Ayckbourn used the pseudonym 'Peter Caulfield' because he was under exclusive contract to the BBC at the time.
Then, in 1965, back at the Scarborough Library Theatre, ''Meet my Father'' was produced, later retitled ''Relatively Speaking''. This time, the play was a massive success, both in Scarborough and the West End, making Alan Ayckbourn rich and earning him a congratulatory telegram from Noel Coward. This was not quite the end of Ayckbourn's hit-and-miss record, because his following play, ''The Sparrow'' only ran for three weeks at Scarborough. However, the following play, ''How the Other Half Loves'', secured his runaway success as a playwright.
The height of Ayckbourn's commercial success included ''Absurd Person Singular'' (1975), ''The Norman Conquests'' trilogy (1973), ''Bedroom Farce'' (1975) and ''Just Between Ourselves'' (1976), all plays that focused heavily on marriage in the British middle classes. The only failure during this period was 1975 musical with Andrew Lloyd-Webber, ''Jeeves'', and even this did little to dent Ayckbourn's popularity. Although his plays have received major West End productions almost from the beginning of his writing career, and hence have been reviewed in British newspapers, Ayckbourn's work was for years routinely dismissed as being too slight for serious study. Recently, scholars have begun to view Ayckbourn as an important commentator on the lifestyles of the British suburban middle class, and as a stylistic innovator who experiments with theatrical styles within the boundaries set by popular tastes.
From the 1980s, Ayckbourn began to move away from the recurring themes of marriage and explore other contemporary themes, one example being ''Woman in Mind'', a play performed entirely from the perspective of a Woman going through a nervous breakdown. He also experimented with several more unconventional ways of writing plays, such as ''Intimate Exchanges'', which has one beginning and sixteen possible endings, and ''House & Garden'', where two plays take place simultaneously of two different stages, as well as diversifying into children's theatre (such as ''Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays'' and musical plays, such as ''By Jeeves'' (a more successful rewrite of the original ''Jeeves'').
With a résumé of over seventy plays, of which more than forty have played at the National Theatre or in the West End, Alan Ayckbourn is one of England’s most successful living playwrights. Despite his success, honours and awards (which include a prestigious Laurence Olivier Award), Alan Ayckbourn remains a relatively anonymous figure dedicated to regional theatre. Throughout his writing career, all but four of his plays were premièred at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough in its three different locations.
Alan Ayckbourn received the CBE in 1987 and was knighted in 1997. It is frequently claimed (but not proven) that Alan Ayckbourn is the most performed living English playwright, and the second most performed of all time after Shakespeare.
Although Alan Ayckbourn's plays no longer dominate the theatrical scene on the scale of his earlier works, he continues to write, his most recent major success being ''Private Fears in Public Places'' that had a hugely successful Off-Broadway run, and in 2006 was made into a film ''Cœurs'', directed by Alain Resnais. After suffering a stroke, there was uncertainly as to whether he could continue to write (the Ayckbourn play premièred immediately after the stroke, ''If I Were You'', was written before his illness), but his first play written afterwards, ''Life and Beth'', was premièred in the summer of 2008. Ayckbourn continues to write for the Stephen Joseph Theatre on invitation of his successor as Artistic Director, Chris Monks, with the first new play under this arrangement, ''My Wonderful Day'', performed in October 2009.
Directing / Artistic Director
Although Alan Ayckbourn is best known as a writer, it is said that he only spends 10% of his time writing plays. Most of the rest of his time is spent directing.Alan Ayckbourn began directing at the Scarborough Library Theatre in 1961, with a production of ''Gas Light'' by Patrick Hamilton. He directed five other plays that year and the following year in Scarborough, and after transferring to the Victoria Theatre, directed a further six plays in 1963. Between 1964 and 1967 (when much of his time was taken up by various productions of his early successes ''Mr. Whatnot'' and ''Relatively Speaking'') he only directed one play (''The Sparrow'', written by himself, later withdrawn), but in 1968 he resumed regularly directing plays, mostly at Scarborough. At this time he also worked as a radio drama producer for the BBC, based in Leeds.
At first, his directing career was separate from his writing career. It was not until 1963 that Ayckbourn directed a play of his own (a revival of ''Standing Room Only''), 1967 that Ayckbourn directed a première of his own (''The Sparrow''). The London premières remained in the hands of other directors for longer, with the first play of his both written and directed by him in London (''Bedroom Farce'') waiting until 1977.
After the death of Stephen Joseph in 1967, the position of Director of Productions was appointed on an annual basis. Alan Ayckbourn was offered this position in 1969 and 1970, succeeding Rodney Wood, but he handed the position over to Caroline Smith in 1971 (having spent most of his time that year in the USA with ''How the Other Half Loves''). He became Director of Productions again in 1972, and this time, on 12 November that same year, he was made the permanent Artistic Director of the theatre.
In mid-1986, Ayckbourn accepted an invitation to work as a visiting director for two years at the Royal National Theatre in London, form his own company, and perform a play in each of the three auditoria provided at least one was a new play of his own. Using a stock company that included established performers like Michael Gambon, Polly Adams and Simon Cadell. The three plays became four, and were: ''Tons of Money'' by Will Evans and Valentine, with adaptations by Ayckbourn (Lyttelton), Arthur Miller's ''A View From the Bridge'' (Cottesloe), his own ''A Small Family Business'' (Olivier) and John Ford's '''Tis Pity She's a Whore'' (Olivier again). During this time, Alan Ayckbourn shared his role of Artistic Director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre with Robin Herford and returned in 1987 to direct the première of ''Henceforward...''.
He announced in 1999 that he would step back from directing the work of other playwrights, in order to concentrate on his own plays, the last one being Rob Shearman's ''Knights in Plastic Armour'' in 1999; the exception being in 2002 when he directed the world première of Tim Firth's ''The Safari Party''.
In 2002, following a dispute over the Duchess Theatre's handling of ''Damsels in Distress'', Ayckbourn sharply criticised both this and the West End's treatment of theatre in general, in particular their casting of celebrities. Although he did not explicitly say he would boycott the West End, he did not return to direct in the West End again until 2009 with a revival of ''Woman in Mind'' (although he did allow other West End producers to revive ''Absurd Person Singular'' in 2007 and ''The Norman Conquests'' in 2008.)
After Ayckbourn suffered a stroke in February 2006, he returned to work in September and premièred his 70th play ''If I Were You'' at the Stephen Joseph Theatre the following month.
He announced in June 2007 that he would retire as artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre after the 2008 season. but Ayckbourn remained to direct premières and revivals of his work at the theatre, beginning with ''How the Other Half Loves'' in June 2009.
In March 2010 he directed an in-the-round revival of his play ''Taking Steps'' at the Orange Tree Theatre, winning universal press acclaim.
C.V.
{| |- |1956: Acting assistant stage manager with Donald Wolfit's company for three weeks at Edinburgh Festival. |- |1956 – 1957: Actor at Worthing, Leatherhead, Scarborough (see below), and Oxford |- |1957 – 1962: Acting assistant stage manager (1957 only) and actor (1958–1962) at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, Yorkshire |- |1962 – 1964: Associate Director, Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire |- |1964 – 1970: Drama producer, BBC Radio, Leeds |- |1972 – 2009: Artistic Director, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough (formerly Library Theatre & Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round) |- |1986 – 1988: Associate Director, National Theatre, London |- |1991 – 1992: Cameron Mackintosh Professor of contemporary theatre, Oxford University |}
Honours and awards
Works
Full-length plays
To date, Alan Ayckbourn has written 74 full-length plays.
| Play number | ! Title | ! Series | Stephen Joseph Theatre>Scarborough Première | West End theatre>West End Première | Broadway theatre>Broadway Première |
| 1 | 30 July 1959 | ||||
| 2 | 21 December 1959 | ||||
| 3 | 19 December 1960 | ||||
| 4 | 13 July 1961 | (12 June 1966) | |||
| 5 | 26 December 1962 | ||||
| 6 | 12 November 1963 | 6 August 1964 | |||
| 7 | colspan="2" | 9 July 1965 | 29 March 1967 | ||
| 8 | colspan="2" | 13 July 1967 | |||
| 9 | 31 July 1969 | 5 August 1970 | 29 March 1971 | ||
| 10 | 20 August 1970 | 8 October 1974 | |||
| 11 | 8 July 1971 | 16 August 1972 | |||
| 12 | 26 June 1972 | 4 July 1973 | 8 October 1974 | ||
| 13 | ''Table Manners'' | 18 June 1973 | 9 May 1974 | 7 December 1975 | |
| 14 | 26 June 1973 | 21 May 1974 | 7 December 1975 | ||
| 15 | ''Round and Round the Garden'' | 2 July 1973 | 6 June 1974 | 7 December 1975 | |
| 16 | colspan="2" | 17 June 1974 | 23 July 1975 | ||
| 17 | 30 September 1974 | 19 May 1976 | |||
| 18 | colspan="2" | 22 April 1975 | |||
| 19 | colspan="2" | 16 June 1975 | 16 March 1977 | 29 March 1979 | |
| 20 | 28 January 1976 | 20 April 1977 | |||
| 21 | 18 January 1977 | 5 April 1978 | |||
| 22 | colspan="2" | 11 January 1978 | 7 March 1979 | ||
| 23 | 10/11 January 1979 | 3/4 June 1980 | |||
| 24 | 28 September 1979 | 2 September 1980 | 20 February 1991 | ||
| 25 | 18 January 1980 | 5 February 1981 | |||
| 26 | colspan="2" | 25 September 1980 | 29 March 1982 | ||
| 27 | 2 October 1981 | 4 October 1982 | |||
| 28 | colspan="2" | 16 December 1981 | 14 March 1983 | ||
| ''Affairs in a Tent'' | |||||
| ''Events on a Hotel Terrace'' | |||||
| ''A Garden Fete'' | |||||
| ''A Pageant'' | |||||
| ''A Cricket Match'' | |||||
| ''A Game of Golf'' | |||||
| ''A One Man Protest'' | |||||
| ''Love in the Mist'' | |||||
| 30 | 5 October 1983 | 14 March 1983 | |||
| 31 | A Chorus of Disapproval (play)>A Chorus of Disapproval'' | 2 May 1984 | 1 August 1985 | ||
| 32 | 30 May 1985 | 3 September 1986 | |||
| 33 | 20 May 1987 | 27 April 1992 | |||
| 34 | 30 July 1987 | 21 November 1988 | |||
| 35 | colspan="2" | 10 August 1988 | 14 February 1990 | ||
| 36 | 30 November 1988 | 4 March 1993 | |||
| 37 | ''The Revengers' Comedies'' | 13 June 1989 | 13 March 1991 | ||
| 38 | 23 November 1989 | 13 March 1991 | |||
| 39 | colspan="2" | 21 May 1990 | |||
| 40 | 4/11 January 1990 | ||||
| 41 | 12 December 1990 | ||||
| 42 | colspan="2" | 6 May 1991 | 14 December 1993 | ||
| 43 | 10 August 1991 | ||||
| 44 | colspan="2" | 21 April 1992 | 3 August 1993 | ||
| 45 | 26 August 1992 | ||||
| 46 | 2 February 1994 | 7 August 1995 | |||
| 47 | 20 April 1994 | ||||
| 48 | 1 December 1994 | ||||
| 49 | 20 April 1995 | ||||
| (18) | 2 July 1996 | 2 July 1996 | 28 October 2001 | ||
| 50 | 4 December 1996 | ||||
| 51 | 29 April 1997 | 2 March 1998 | |||
| 52 | colspan="2" | 4 June 1998 | 13 October 1999 | ||
| 53 | 4 December 1998 | ||||
| 54 | rowspan="2" | ''House'' | 17 June 1999 | 8 August 2000 | |
| 55 | ''Garden'' | 17 June 1999 | 8 August 2000 | ||
| (41) | 4 December 1999 | ||||
| 56 | colspan="2" | 8 February 2000 | |||
| 57 | colspan="2" | 5 December 2000 | |||
| 58 | rowspan="3" | 29 May 2001 | 7 September 2002 | ||
| 59 | 3 July 2001 | 7 September 2002 | |||
| 60 | RolePlay (play)>RolePlay'' | 4 September 2001 | 7 September 2002 | ||
| 61 | colspan="2" | 5 June 2002 | |||
| 62 | 3 December 2002 | ||||
| 63 | colspan="2" | 23 July 2003 | |||
| 64 | 8 August 2003 | ||||
| 65 | 2 December 2003 | ||||
| 66 | colspan="2" | 4 May 2004 | |||
| 67 | 17 August 2004 | (5 May 2005) | (9 June 2005) | ||
| 68 | 2 December 2004 | ||||
| 69 | 31 May 2005 | ||||
| 70 | colspan="2" | 17 October 2006 | |||
| 71 | ''Life and Beth'' | 22 July 2008 | |||
| 72 | 16 December 2008 | ||||
| 73 | 13 October 2009 | ||||
| 74 | 16 September 2010 | ||||
| 75 | 13 September 2011 |
One-act plays
There are seven one-act plays written by Alan Ayckbourn. Five of them (''Mother Figure'', ''Drinking Companion'', ''Between Mouthfuls'', ''Gosforth’s Fete'' and ''A Talk in the Park'') were written for ''Confusions'', first performed in 1974.The other two one-act plays were:
Books
Film adaptations of Ayckbourn plays
Plays adapted as films include:
Notes
References
External links
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