![]() ![]() In performance, Ayckbourn's dialogue and construction seem effortless, but on the page, you can tease out the keen sense of narrative that makes these plays so satisfying. Thankfully for everyone, I was turned down, but re-reading the plays again was a pleasure. Plans to review the Broadway production of Alan Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests sent me to my old copy of the plays, still battered from when, in college, I tried to convince a theater company to let me direct a cast of undergrads in a farcical British trilogy starring a middle-aged British sexaholic. ![]() ![]() As usual, my reading life in 2009 was split into comics, which I read voraciously and with a eye toward timeliness, and everything else, which I read haphazardly and with an eye toward pleasure. ![]()
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