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RolePlay

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  4w, 3m

Alan Ayckbourn

RolePlay
by Alan Ayckbourn

Justin and Julie-Ann, hopelessly mismatched in love, are about to introduce their respective parents to each other over dinner - Justin's upper-crust alcoholic mother from Surrey and Julie-Ann's bigoted Yorkshire father and prim mother.

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    4w, 3m
Accolades
Accolades
  • Nominee: 2003 Olivier Award for Best Comedy

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Summary
Justin and Julie-Ann, hopelessly mismatched in love, are about to introduce their respective parents to each other over dinner - Justin's upper-crust alcoholic mother from Surrey and Julie-Ann's bigoted Yorkshire father and prim mother. Into this doomed scenario drops, literally, via the balcony upstairs and the river, Paige Petite, a former lap-dancer with suicidal tendencies and her thick, gun-toting minder who is employed by her violent boyfriend ...
M3 (30, 40, 50s) F4 (20s, 45, 50s)
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting An apartment

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Alan Ayckbourn

Alan Ayckbourn

A playwright and theatre director, to date Alan Ayckbourn has written 89 plays – Family Album attracted four-star reviews when it premiered in September 2022 at the Stephen Joseph, where nearly all his plays are first staged.

However, this year he will stage his 88th play Welc ...

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