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Reviews (world premiere)

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Paul Allen: A Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn’s Plays

pp.65-69 (Faber & Faber, 2004, ISBN 0571214924)

Ayckbourn Says It With Music

Gerard Dempsey, Daily Express, 26 January 1980

Paul Allen: Alan Ayckbourn - Grinning at the Edge

pp.185-188 (Methuen, 2001, ISBN 0413731200)

Suburban Strains

Eric Shorter, Daily Telegraph, 28 January 1980

Michael Billington: Alan Ayckbourn (2nd Ed)*

pp.142-144 (Palgrave, 1990, ISBN 0333498976)

Suburban Strains

Drama, April 1980

Albert-Reiner Glaap: Ayckbourn Country (1st Ed)*

pp.77 (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1999, ISBN 3884763490)

Suburban Strains

Antony Thorncroft, Financial Times, 24 January 1980

Simon Murgatroyd: Sight Unseen

pp.88-89 (lulu.com, 2009)

Suburban Strains

Robin Thornber, The Guardian, 21 January 1980

Ian Watson: Conversations With Ayckbourn*

pp.70-71 (Faber and Faber, 1988, ISBN 0571151922)

Good Time

Paul Allen, New Statesman, 25 January 1980

Sidney Howard White: Alan Ayckbourn*

pp.24-28 (Twayne Publishers, 1984, ISBN 080576870X)

Suburban Strains

Ian Watson, Now, 1 February 1980

* indicates out of print

Distant Laughter

Robert Cushman, The Observer, 27 January 1980

Interviews

Suburban Strains A Perfect Smasher

Iain Meekly, Scarborough Evening News, 19 January 1980

Those Hums In The Night

Lynne Curry, Scarborough Evening News, 1 January 1980

Suburban Strains

David Jeffels, The Stage, 14 February 1980

Strains To New Effect

Desmond Pratt, Yorkshire Post, 15 January 1980

Suburban Strains

Irving Wardle, The Times, 19 January 1980

The Essentially Ambiguous Response

Anthony Masters, The Times, 4 February 1981

Ayckbourn On Winner

David Jeffels, Yorkshire Evening Post, 23 January 1980

Ayckbourn, With Music

Ray Connolly, Sunday Times, 8 February 1981

Ayckbourn Third Time Lucky

David Jeffels, Yorkshire Evening Press, 19 January 1980

 

Ayckbourn Achieves A New Dimension

Yorkshire Gazette, 24 January 1980

 

Suburban Strains

Desmond Pratt, Yorkshire Post, 21 January 1980

   
 

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