Kitchen farce in classic Ayckbourn comedy

Three couples each host a Christmas party on three consecutive years and each time the action gravitates to their kitchen. This classic Alan Ayckbourn comedy, ‘Absurd Person Singular’, is brought to Sunninghill this May by the Quince Players.

In a comedy about social status, the up and coming Hopcrofts, anxious to impress their bank manager and his drunken wife and an architect neighbour and his suicidal wife, host a party. Sidney Hopcroft is clearly out of his social depth while his wife Jane causes mayhem when she goes in search of tonic water. However by the following Christmas it’s clear all is not so well for the middle-class Brewster-Wright’s and Jackson’s, respectively the bank manager and architect.

Director, Ken Long says: “This is one of Ayckbourn’s most popular plays, with the action in each kitchen bordering on farce but with a darker thread running through the comedy. The fortunes change for two of the couples as they finish up literally under the control of the seemingly twee Hopcrofts.”

“Each character provides the audience with wonderful moments of humour and a range of emotions varying between irritation and sadness as events spiral out of control at each consecutive Christmas party” says Long.

 

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