Alan Ayckbourn cytaty

Alan Ayckbourn – współczesny brytyjski komediopisarz. Napisał ponad 75 sztuk teatralnych. W latach 1972 -2009 był dyrektorem artystycznym Stephen Joseph Theatre w Scarborough, Anglii. Ponad 40 Jego sztuk wystawiono na West Endzie i 10 na Broadwayu. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. Kwiecień 1939
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Alan Ayckbourn: Cytaty po angielsku

“Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare.”

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
Criticism

“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 comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?”

"A Crash Course in Playwriting" (1993) http://education.alanayckbourn.net/EducationInterviewsPlaywriting.htm.