Absurd person singular: A comedy

Absurd person singular: A comedy by Alan Ayckbourn. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780573605611.

Take three couples made up of the following individuals: a housewife who’d rather clean her kitchen than do anything else; her husband, a wheeler-dealer who social climbs his way to business success; an architect whose buildings have a history of collapsing; his wife, who has a penchant for attempting suicide in front of witnesses; an alcoholic woman who locks herself in her bedroom; and a banker who has difficulty counting to ten. Put them all together on three successive Christmas Eves and you have what Clive Barnes called “the best comedy Britain has sent us in years and years.” Written by Alan Ayckbourn, referred to as the “British Neil Simon,” ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR takes a long, hard—and yet hilarious-look at today’s society. And in the hands of a talent such as Mr. Ayckbourn’s, the hilarity and truth of what the play reveals transcend cultural and geographic boundaries to tickle the funny bone of audiences on both sides of the Atlantic. Book