Press release by the Arts Council of Great Britain, November 2, 1983.
This is said to be the source of the common, but unsubstantiated, statement that Ayckbourn is the second most performed playwright after Shakespeare. http://biography.alanayckbourn.net/BiographyFAQPopularity.htm
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Alan Ayckbourn: Citations en anglais
“Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.”
Preface to The Norman Conquests (New York: Grove Press, [1975] 1988) p. 11.
“The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.”
The Crafty Art of Playwriting (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) p. 3.
"A Crash Course in Playwriting" (1993) http://education.alanayckbourn.net/EducationInterviewsPlaywriting.htm.
