Following the adventures of its eponymous hero from birth through three decades, this acclaimed stage adaptation presents a plethora of brilliant characters from the original novel.
Category: Barry Baynton

Ten Times Table
The leading lights of the village have decided to hold a pageant of local history. But there’s a left wing teacher on the committee who decides to turn it into a rally for proletarian revolution.

The Madness of George III
George III becomes increasingly erratic after losing the American colonies so doctors are brought in to cure his madness. One man has a motive for easing the king further into madness.

No Room For Love
Dr. Garfield arrives at the moderately seedy Lawns Hotel hoping to spend a discreet weekend with his attractive receptionist Michele. Not a chance …

The Crucible
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. A small group of girls ‘cry out’ against other people in the town, accusing them of witchcraft, in an attempt to cover up their own dabblings in the occult.

Habeas Corpus
The antics at the Wicksteed home are a satirical merry-go-round. Family, friends and the sexual satisfaction of the “corpus” (body) are the ruling passions in this farcical comedy of ill-manners.

Blithe Spirit
Charles Condomine, a fussy and cantankerous novelist, has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira.

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
Lord Arthur Savile’s is engaged to lovely Sybil Merton. Her pet chiromantist Podgers has read Lord Arthur’s palm and foretold he would commit a murder…

Fur Coat and No Knickers
This play concerns the wedding of Deirdre and Mark, which begins on the stag night when an inebriated Mark is chained to a lamppost with a blow-up rubber doll.

A Voyage Round My Father
There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial Son as viewed from a trellis surrounded garden.

Forty Years On
A fictional public school which is preparing to perform an end-of-term play. The end-of-term play deals farcically with the aftermath of the First World War.

Woman in Mind
Ayckbourn creates a set of believable people whose weaknesses and foibles are food for mirth. We laugh at ourselves through his characters and the experience is at once pain.