Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 2: Ernie's Incredible Illucinations, Invisible Friends, This Is Where We Came In, My Very Own Story, The Champion Of Paribanou

Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 2: Ernie's Incredible Illucinations, Invisible Friends, This Is Where We Came In, My Very Own Story, The Champion of Paribanou

Plays Two:Ernie's Incredible IllucinationsInvisible FriendsThis Is Where We Came InMy Very Own StoryThe Champion of ParibanouAlan Ayckbourn introduces this second collection of work containing some of his wonderfully inventive children's plays, which are a treat to read and a joy to perform.ReviewInvisible Friends"It's a tribute to Ayckbourn's later work, breaking free as it does from the constraints of naturalism, that it taps primitive fantasies and fears that children can easily respond to..."--IndependentThis Is Where We Came In"With wry discipline the play celebrates artistic anarchy, ruptures in convention, the rejuvenation of form. This is the territory of experimental fiction...the sort of thing you expect form Fowles, Burgess or the French...No adult, with or without children...should miss it."--Daily TelegraphMy Very Own Story"There aren't enough good plays for very young audiences but in the past few years Ayckbourn has added two or three new classics...It sounds like Stoppard for tots and it is, complete with exuberant wordplay."--GuardianAbout the AuthorIn the theatre, Alan Ayckbourn works, variously, as a stage manager, sound technician, lighting technician, scene-painter, prop maker, actor, writer, and director. He is the author of over fifty plays, most of which received their first performance at the Studio Theatre Company in Scarborough where he spends the greater part of each year directing other people's work. More than half have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or at the Royal Shakespeare Company. They have been translated into over 30 languages, are seen on stage and television throughout the world, and have received many national and international awards. Alan Ayckbourn was appointed a CBE in 1987 and in 1997 received a knighthood for his services to the theatre.