Bedroom Farce (play)

Bedroom Farce is a play by Alan Ayckbourn. In Germany the play under the title guest bedroom is known.

The first performance took place on June 16, 1975 at Library Theatre in Scarborough, directed by Alan Ayckbourn. The German premiere took place at the Comedy Dusseldorf on 14 June 1978. Directed by Alfonso Höckmann.

It is a play for eight actors who constitute four pairs. Scenes of action are the bedrooms of three couples. In the play, four different types of togetherness circumvention are shown within a relationship. While the plot shows that the people are so different they appear, but the same relationship schemes subject.

Protagonists couples

Ernest and Delia are the parents of Trevor, who is married to Susannah. Jan is a Trevor's former girlfriend and now married to Nick who is currently tied up by back pain in bed. Kate and Malcolm are the host of the party, which is corrupted by Susannah and Trevor. Susannah and Trevor are currently experiencing a relationship crisis.

Time

The play takes place shortly before a party, during and until the morning after the party.

Content

Kate and Malcolm throw a party to which they invite Jan, Nick, Trevor and Susannah, where Nick can not for reasons stated.

Susannah and Trevor come individually, as a quarrelsome pair to the party. You fall out there finally and really explode the party. Previously, Trevor and his former girlfriend in January come back a little closer, they give themselves a tender kiss, which is both embarrassing afterwards.

Back from the party in January confesses her husband Nick the kiss, but is only concerned with his back problems.

Malcolm tries, after he had to say goodbye to all the guests to cheer up his wife with a self annex end cabinets, tinkering all night and brings about only scrap.

Ernest and Delia strive to repeat follies of the past, what they do not quite succeed, and they still have a lot of fun.

Susannah and Trevor finally go to the party so to speak, from bedroom to bedroom to sue their suffering, to stay there and eventually find, in the bedroom of Malcolm and Kate back together.

• Drama
• Alan Ayckbourn
• Literature ( English )
• Literature ( 20th century)
• Literary work