Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Ayckbourn CBE ( born April 12, 1939 in Hampstead, London) is a British author of theatrical comedies.
Work
Alan Ayckbourn already wrote at the age of ten pieces, however, began in the late 1950s as an actor, his theater career. Meanwhile, Ayckbourn has written more than 70 plays and is considered one of the most successful comedy writers of modern times in Europe. His plays have been translated into forty languages. At the same time Ayckbourn worked as a director.
Ayckbourns works usually reveal human weaknesses of the English upper-middle class in dealing with each other. Ayckbourn is also a master of farce.
Ayckbourn rage over all contemporary dramatists, the British Council and the assessment of Gerd can.
Comments about Alan Ayckbourn and his works
- Ayckbourn ... writes about the travails of modern humanity, connecting rods, gears, pistons evade the "big " mechanism. Where Shakespeare makes people fall exemplary, Ayckbourn see them bounce commonplace, stumble and dance. Where in Shakespeare that men have power and meaning, are at Ayckbourn long the women carriers of power and the will to live. In his work we find ladies of the impact Camilla Parker Bowles '; his men are sensitive, hesitant gravity. -.
Pieces
Almost all the pieces were premiered in Ayckbourns Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. There is Ayckbourn artistic director ( Artistic Director).
Texts
- The Crafty Art of Play Making, London 2002
- Theater Crafts - 101 self-evident rules for writing and directing, Berlin, Alexander Verlag, 2006