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Product Description: Christmas is the season of good cheer and harmony among men, but things are not working out quite that way in the Bunker household. As a motley collection of friends and relatives fill the house with their own wishes, dreams, and attitudes, the stage is set for seasonal disharmony and romantic intrigue...read more

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9781408469828 | Bbc Pubns, November 1, 2011, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Christmas is the season of good cheer and harmony among men, but things are not working out quite that way in the Bunker household.

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Product Description: Six plays from the Olivier, Tony and Moliere Award winning playwright Alan Ayckbourn: The legendary The Norman Conquests trilogy; as well as a brand new recording of his play Henceforward… starring Mad Men's Jarred Harris alongside Anne Heche; Just Between Ourselves starring Alfred Molina; and a remaster of L...read more

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9781580818421 | L A Theatre Works, September 15, 2011, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Six plays from the Olivier, Tony and Moliere Award winning playwright Alan Ayckbourn: The legendary The Norman Conquests trilogy; as well as a brand new recording of his play Henceforward… starring Mad Men's Jarred Harris alongside Anne Heche; Just Between Ourselves starring Alfred Molina; and a remaster of L.

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Product Description: Jack McCraken has the opportunity of a lifetime: he is the new head of a family furniture business and believes he will initiate a new age of honesty and integrity. He quickly learns that everyone else involved in the enterprise has a vested interest in maintaining business as usual, rife with dishonesty and deceit...read more

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9780571149704 | Faber & Faber, August 1, 1987, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Jack McCraken has the opportunity of a lifetime: he is the new head of a family furniture business and believes he will initiate a new age of honesty and integrity.

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Product Description: Characters: 3 male, 2 female Composite set: part of a bedroom, sitting-room, eating-area in kitchen The Rodales seem like an ordinary family, but beneath the surface things are beginning to crack. Jill and Mal have lost the spark in their marriage, their son Sam resents his father and their daughter Chrissie has recently become a mum and is dealing with marriage issues of her own...read more

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9780573111952 | Gardners Books, May 12, 2011, cover price $15.75 | About this edition: Characters: 3 male, 2 female Composite set: part of a bedroom, sitting-room, eating-area in kitchen The Rodales seem like an ordinary family, but beneath the surface things are beginning to crack.

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Product Description: THE SHAPER EXILE, VOLUME III The strange races of the planet Llia were created by the Venn, genetic engineers banished from Earth for tampering with human lives. Centuries later, the peoples of Llia have begun the struggle for control of their own destiny...read more

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9780553282870, titled "Shaping the Dawn" | Spectra, November 1, 1989, cover price $3.95 | also contains Shaping the Dawn | About this edition: THE SHAPER EXILE, VOLUME III The strange races of the planet Llia were created by the Venn, genetic engineers banished from Earth for tampering with human lives.

Product Description: Ayckbourns celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests consists of three hilarious and poignant plays depicting the same six characters in one house over one weekend, namely Norman and his romantic follies. Table Manners: Englands famous seducer of other mens wives lays siege to his sister-in-law in the first battle...read more
By Alan Ayckbourn, Robin Herford (narrator) and Tessa Peake-jones (narrator)

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9780792773764 | Blackstone Audio Inc, December 1, 2010, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Ayckbourns celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests consists of three hilarious and poignant plays depicting the same six characters in one house over one weekend, namely Norman and his romantic follies.
9781408426920 | Bbc Pubns, July 13, 2010, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: When the deviously amorous Norman plans a clandestine weekend away with his sister-in-law, he has some fun and games in mind.

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Product Description: The first of Ayckbourns darkly comic masterpieces involves a relentlessly cheerful handyman in a disastrously fractured marriage. Two couples develop an unlikely friendship in this painfully funny portrait of British suburban life...read more

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9781580816427 | L A Theatre Works, November 25, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The first of Ayckbourns darkly comic masterpieces involves a relentlessly cheerful handyman in a disastrously fractured marriage.

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9781580811668 | Unabridged edition (L A Theatre Works, January 1, 2001), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A handyman, Dennis spends most of his time messing about in the garage, oblivious to the rivalry between his wife and his mother, both living in the house.

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Product Description: The third battle of Ayckbourns celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests, returns us to the same weekend in the country, but this time to the setting of Mothers overgrown English country garden. Something more troublesome than brambles is lurking among the roses...read more

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9781580816809 | L A Theatre Works, July 1, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The third battle of Ayckbourns celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests, returns us to the same weekend in the country, but this time to the setting of Mothers overgrown English country garden.

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9781580811583 | Unabridged edition (L A Theatre Works, January 1, 2001), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Part of the delightful comic trilogy from one of England's most popular playwrights, The Norman Conquests revolves around a lascivious librarian with designs on three different women, all family members.

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Product Description: In the second battle of Ayckbourns celebrated triology The Norman Conquests, we rejoin the family weekend, this time hearing the events in the living room, where Norman gets drunk on homemade dandelion wine and all hell breaks loose...read more

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9781580816793 | L A Theatre Works, July 1, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In the second battle of Ayckbourns celebrated triology The Norman Conquests, we rejoin the family weekend, this time hearing the events in the living room, where Norman gets drunk on homemade dandelion wine and all hell breaks loose.

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9781580811576 | Unabridged edition (L A Theatre Works, January 1, 2001), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: In this play, Annie has arranged to spend an illicit weekend with her sister Ruth's husband Norman, and for this reason, suitably disguised, has asked her elder brother Reg and his wife Sarah to look after their widowed mother and the house.

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By Alan Ayckbourn, Rosalind Ayres (narrator), Ken Danziger (narrator), Dennis Erdman (other contributor) and Susan Albert Loewenberg (producer)

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9781580815659 | Unabridged edition (L A Theatre Works, May 15, 2009), cover price $29.95

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Product Description: In this seminal guide to playmaking, renowned playwright Alan Ayckbourn shares his tricks of the trade. From helpful hints on writing to tips on directing, this book provides a complete primer for the newcomer and a refresher for those with more experience...read more

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9781403962294 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, May 1, 2003), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Alan Ayckbourne provides the aspiring playwright with tips, advice, and expertise on writing, directing, and rehearsing to pull together any play.

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9780230614888 | Griffin, November 15, 2008, cover price $31.99 | About this edition: In this seminal guide to playmaking, renowned playwright Alan Ayckbourn shares his tricks of the trade.

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Contains five one-act plays by a playwright of Britain: 'The Mother Figure', 'The Drinking Companion', 'Between Mouthfuls', 'Gosforth's Fete', and 'A Talk in the Park'.
By Alan Ayckbourn and Russell Whiteley (contributor)

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9780713685510 | Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, April 1, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Contains five one-act plays by a playwright of Britain: 'The Mother Figure', 'The Drinking Companion', 'Between Mouthfuls', 'Gosforth's Fete', and 'A Talk in the Park'.

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9780413532701 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 1, 1983, cover price $9.95

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Product Description: Six aspiring authors meet on a winter's evening to discuss their work. Among them are writers of historical romances and children's literature who are finding it difficult to start writing, and a crime writer who can't stop. A creator of extremely complicated science fiction, a librettist without a musical partner and the Writer's Circle chairman, who produces instruction booklets, make up the rest of the team...read more

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9780573113222 | Gardners Books, April 13, 2007, cover price $16.40 | About this edition: Six aspiring authors meet on a winter's evening to discuss their work.

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Product Description: In this third volume of his collected plays, Alan Ayckbourn takes his signature acerbic wit into the territory of the lonely and isolated, focusing on everyone from the fantastically famous to the lowliest of Eleanor Rigbys. Collected here are Haunting Julia, Sugar Daddies, Drowning on Dry Land, and the universally acclaimed Private Fears in Public Places, described by Newsday's Linda Winer as "an exquisitely modulated chamber sextet about the unpredictable depths and overlapping absurdities of middleage melancholy...read more

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9780571226887 | Faber & Faber, November 28, 2006, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: In this third volume of his collected plays, Alan Ayckbourn takes his signature acerbic wit into the territory of the lonely and isolated, focusing on everyone from the fantastically famous to the lowliest of Eleanor Rigbys.
9780077073831, titled "Developing Effective Training Skills" | McGraw-Hill, September 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | also contains Developing Effective Training Skills

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Product Description: A hilarious satire of television and a touching romantic comedy, it begins in a television studio where a hospital soap opera is being taped. One actor starts speaking gibberish; he is an "actoid" a robot and his programming is off kilter...read more

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9780573110610 | New edition (Gardners Books, September 13, 2006), cover price $16.60 | About this edition: A hilarious satire of television and a touching romantic comedy, it begins in a television studio where a hospital soap opera is being taped.
9780571197873 | Faber & Faber, May 1, 2000, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A sci-fi comedy thriller, Comic Potential is a play set in the foreseeable future, when everything has changed--except human natureComic Potential is set in a television studio in the near future, where the director--an alcoholic has-been--and two assistants are making a daytime soap opera of the usual appalling sort.

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Product Description: Alan Ayckbourn, el dramaturgo vivo más representado en los teatros de todo el mundo, muestra en este libro los trucos del oficio, desde consejos sobre cómo escribir (¿por dónde empezar?, ¿cómo continuar?, ¿qué es comedia y cómo escribirla?, ¿qué es tragedia y cómo funciona?), a indicaciones sobre cómo dirigir (trabajar co...read more

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9788496222113 | Robinbook, June 30, 2006, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Alan Ayckbourn, el dramaturgo vivo más representado en los teatros de todo el mundo, muestra en este libro los trucos del oficio, desde consejos sobre cómo escribir (¿por dónde empezar?

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9780571223121 | Gardners Books, December 4, 2003, cover price $12.35

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Product Description: Continuing his close scrutiny of the fine line separating the theatrical from the real, Alan Ayckbourn serves up three new plays, collectively known as Damsels in Distress. Written to be performed by the same cast with the same luxurious riverside apartment as a set, each play deftly explores the enigmatic duality of role-playing--including a daughter trying out the call-girl lifestyle to help with the family budget, and a night of romance between neighbors who aren't who they say they are--while continuing to offer Ayckbourn's signature dose of penetrating humor...read more

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9780571216482 | Faber & Faber, December 1, 2003, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Continuing his close scrutiny of the fine line separating the theatrical from the real, Alan Ayckbourn serves up three new plays, collectively known as Damsels in Distress.

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Product Description: Two dazzling new interconnected plays from the acclaimed author of Communicating Doors.Two plays -- designed to be performed simultaneously and involving the same characters -- set in the same English country house on the same cloudy August day, are Alan Ayckbourn's vehicle for a sharp and hilarious scrutiny of the destructive nature of human behavior and emotions...read more

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9780571205936 | Faber & Faber, April 1, 2001, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Two dazzling new interconnected plays from the acclaimed author of Communicating Doors.

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After his father tells him to stop reading the latest Rockfist Slim detective novel and go to sleep, Kevin somehow enters the story and, together with Rockfist, travels through such books as Little Red Riding Hood and Kidnapped before returning home.

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9780571203345 | Faber & Faber Ltd, March 1, 2001, cover price $22.01 | About this edition: After his father tells him to stop reading the latest Rockfist Slim detective novel and go to sleep, Kevin somehow enters the story and, together with Rockfist, travels through such books as Little Red Riding Hood and Kidnapped before returning home.

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In 'Gizmo,' Ben Mason is rattled from witnessing a fatal shooting, while in 'Don't eat little Charlie,' Charlie, Olmo, Pug the dog, and Fizzipizzi are threatened with eviction until the king of music arrives. (view table of contents)

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9780748742899 | Nelson Thornes, February 1, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In 'Gizmo,' Ben Mason is rattled from witnessing a fatal shooting, while in 'Don't eat little Charlie,' Charlie, Olmo, Pug the dog, and Fizzipizzi are threatened with eviction until the king of music arrives.

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9780573152061 | New edition (Gardners Books, July 1, 2000), cover price $11.60

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Product Description: An ingenious set greets the audience of this award winning play: the cross section of a Victorian house that has been divided into three flats. The owner, a fastidious, elegant executive named Barbara, contentedly occupies the ordered, male free ground floor visible in its entirety...read more

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9780573019142 | Samuel French Inc Plays, October 1, 1998, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: An ingenious set greets the audience of this award winning play: the cross section of a Victorian house that has been divided into three flats.

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