Three Plays

Alan Ayckbourn

Original title: Three plays

earliest edition we have, 1977 Chatto & Windus, 1977 229 pages

A Black cat book

"A scathing comedy of social striving in the suburbs, Absurd Person Singular follows the fortunes of three couples who turn up in each other's kitchens on three successive Christmases, to hilarious and devastating effect. In Absent Friends, Diana and Paul host a tea party for Colin, recently returned to England after the tragic drowning of his fiancée. But Colin proves impervious to their awkward attempts to console...

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Three Plays paperback · 1994 · Grove Press · 229 pages · 9780802131577
Three Plays (Penguin Plays) edition · 1979 · Penguin Books Ltd · 256 pages · 9780140481501
Three Plays edition · 1979 · Grove Press · 229 pages · 9780394170831
Three plays edition · 1979 · Grove Press : distributed by Random House · 229 pages
Three plays edition · 1977 · Chatto & Windus · 229 pages

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