Ask The Archivist is a regular feature allowing you to put your Alan Ayckbourn related questions to the playwright's archivist Simon Murgatroyd.
If you have a question regarding any aspect of Alan's work, email it to: admin@alanayckbourn.net (labelled Ask The Archivist) and we'll publish any interesting questions.
Question: Having seen the current West End revival of Alan Ayckbourn's A Chorus Of Disapproval, I was wondering how many Ayckbourn plays have had West End revivals?
Answer: Just to define what a West End revival is: this is a new production of one of the 39 Ayckbourn plays which have been produced in a West End Theatre and does not include transfers or recasts of existing productions.
There have been 12 revivals of Alan Ayckbourn's plays in the West End if we include the recently announced production of Relatively Speaking for 2013. The plays are:
How The Other Half Loves (Duke Of York's, 1988)
Absurd Person Singular (Whitehall, 1990)
Bedroom Farce (Aldwych, 2002)
Absurd Person Singular (Garrick, 2007)
Table Manners (Old Vic, 2008)
Living Together (Old Vic, 2008)
Round And Round The Garden (Old Vic, 2008)
Woman In Mind (Vaudeville, 2009)
Bedroom Farce (Duke Of York's, 2010)
Season's Greetings (National, 2010)
Absent Friends (Harold Pinter, 2012)
Relatively Speaking (Wyndham, 2013)
All these plays have had previous productions in the West End. Further details about Alan Ayckbourn's plays in the West End can be found in the Frequently Asked Questions section of Alan Ayckbourn's Official Website.
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