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Ayckbourn and village
Ayckbourn wrote his first play at Wisborough Lodge ( a preparatory school in the village of Wisborough Green ) when he was about 10.

Ayckbourn and there
Both characters feel themselves in trouble, and there was speculation that Alan Ayckbourn himself may have felt himself to be in trouble.

Ayckbourn and toured
Much of Sue ’ s career has been spent doing Alan Ayckbourn plays, three of which ( Relatively Speaking, Time and Time Again, and How The Other Half Loves ) she toured with John Challis, who plays Boycie to Sue ’ s long-suffering Marlene in Only Fools And Horses.

Ayckbourn and with
In 1957, Ayckbourn married Christine Roland, another member of the Library Theatre company, and indeed Ayckbourn's first two plays were written jointly with her under the pseudonym of " Roland Allen ".
Alan Ayckbourn said that his relationship with Christine became easy once they agreed their marriage was over.
It could be that Ayckbourn had written plays with himself and his own issues in mind, but as Ayckbourn is portrayed as a guarded and private man, it is hard to imagine him exposing his own life in his plays to any great degree.
Ayckbourn joined Wolfit on tour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as an acting assistant stage manager ( meaning a role that involved both acting and stage management ) for three weeks, with his first role on the professional stage being various parts in The Strong are Lonely by Fritz Hochwälder .< ref name = acting >
After an excursion into the world of comic-books and cartoons ( another of Resnais's enthusiasms ) in I Want to Go Home ( 1989 ), an ambitious theatrical adaptation followed with the diptych of Smoking / No Smoking ( 1993 ): Resnais, having admired the plays of Alan Ayckbourn for many years, chose to adapt what appeared the most intractable of them, Intimate Exchanges, a series of eight interlinked plays which follow the consequences of a casual choice to sixteen possible endings.
* Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn with Trevor Cooper, Margo Gunn, Denys Hawthorne, Patrick O ’ Kane and Amanda Boxer ( 1994 )
He directed adaptations of the Alan Ayckbourn musical play A Chorus of Disapproval with Anthony Hopkins and the Agatha Christie novel Appointment with Death in 1988.
Skinner has worked with directors that include Mike Leigh, Trevor Nunn, Tim Burton and Sam Mendes, but she remembers one particular director, Alan Ayckbourn, when she started out: " He was a great influence for me as he pushed me so hard, but every director you work with has a big influence in some way, they really push you .”
Eventually Lloyd Webber teamed up with famed British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, and the two of them began work with the personal blessing of Wodehouse.
The London première was at the proscenium Lyttelton Theatre on 4 October 1982, with Ayckbourn again directing.
The Glee Club and David Hare returned to the West End with Via Dolorosa prior to the opening of Alan Ayckbourn ’ s Damsels in Distress.

Ayckbourn and Shakespeare
In the Plays and Players Yearbook for 1993 he was calculated as the third most performed playwright in the UK behind William Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn.
A 1993 survey for ' Plays and Players ' magazine cited Godber as the third most performed playwright in the UK, after Shakespeare and Alan Ayckbourn. In 2005 won 2 BAFTAs for ' Odd Squad ', written and directed on location in Hull and screened by BBC children's television.
She worked in repertory theatres across the UK for the first 11 years of her career, performing in over a hundred plays, playing everything from Alan Ayckbourn to Shakespeare.

Ayckbourn and .
Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE ( born 12 April 1939 ) is a prolific English playwright.
Ayckbourn was born in Hampstead, London.
His father, Horace Ayckbourn, was an orchestral violinist, at one time deputy leader of the London Symphony Orchestra.
It is said that Joseph became both a mentor and father figure for Ayckbourn until his untimely death in 1967, and he has consistently spoken highly of him.
Although Ayckbourn continued to move where his career took him, he settled in Scarborough, eventually buying Longwestgate House, the house formerly owned by Stephen Joseph.
Like his mother, neither he nor Christine sought a divorce for the next thirty years and it was only in 1997 that they formally divorced ; Ayckbourn married Heather Stoney.
One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.
Ayckbourn, however, continues to write and direct his own work at the theatre.
Ayckbourn has frequently said he sees aspects of himself in all his characters.
But again, it is unclear whether this had any effect on the writing, and Paul Allen's view is that it is not current experience that Ayckbourn uses for his plays.
Gambon is a very private person, a " non-starry star " as Ayckbourn called him.
In addition to his many Shakespearean roles ( Jaques in As You Like It, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Polonius in Hamlet, Malvolio in Twelfth Night ), Hordern performed in plays by Strindberg, Chekhov, Ibsen, Pinero, Pinter, Dürrenmatt, Albee, Alan Ayckbourn, David Mercer and Tom Stoppard.
* In 1984 in the play ( and later film ) A Chorus of Disapproval by Alan Ayckbourn, an amateur production of The Beggar's Opera is a major plot driver and excerpts are performed.
The Ayckbourn Theatre is a fully functional modern theatre.
Important modern playwrights include Nobel laureate Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Alan Ayckbourn, John Osborne, Michael Frayn and Arnold Wesker.

attended and Haileybury
He then attended Haileybury College, and University College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Second Class Honours BA in Modern History in 1904.
** General Sir Hugh Henry Gough, VC, GCB ( attended East India College Haileybury )
** Ross Lowis Mangles, VC ( attended East India College Haileybury )-A Civilian recipient.
** William Fraser McDonell, VC ( attended East India College Haileybury )-A Civilian recipient.
** Lieutenant Arthur Thomas Moore VC ( attended East India College Haileybury ) He later achieved the rank of major general and was made a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath ( CB ).
** Lieutenant Nevill Josiah Aylmer Coghill VC ( attended Haileybury College, Trevelyan House from 1865 to 1869 )
** Captain Conwyn Mansel-Jones, VC, CMG, DSO, ( attended Haileybury College, Batten House 1885 – 1888 )
** Major General William George Walker, VC, CB ( attended Haileybury College, Colvin House, 1876 – 1881 )
** Second Lieutenant Rupert Price Hallowes, VC, MC ( attended Haileybury College, Le Bas House 1894 – 1897 )
** Major General Clifford Coffin, VC, CB, DSO & Bar ( attended Haileybury College, Lawrence House, 1884 – 1886 )
** Captain Clement Robertson, VC ( attended Haileybury College, Colvin House 1904 – 1906 )
** Captain Cyril Hubert Frisby, VC ( attended Haileybury College, Hailey House, 1899 – 1903 )
He attended Haileybury ( where Clement Attlee was his junior ) and New College, Oxford.
He attended Lochinver House School, then Haileybury College, Hertfordshire, and read American Studies at the University of Hull.
Rudyard Kipling spent several of his childhood years at Westward Ho !, where he attended the United Services College ( later absorbed by Haileybury College, which is now in Hertfordshire ).
After the January 8 game between All-Montreal and Ottawa, which was attended by only 1500 fans, Art Ross made plans to suspend the All-Montreal team and, along with Paddy Moran, join the Haileybury team of the NHA.
He attended Haileybury College with that purpose in mind.
* Augustus Prinsep ( 1803 – 30 ), eighth and youngest son of John Prinsep, sketcher, writer, civil servant, born in London, attended Haileybury College, then clerk with East India Company, Calcutta, attempted to settle in Australia but unsuccessful, died aboard ship
Mayhew attended Haileybury and Christ Church, Oxford as an exhibitioner.
The young Franklyn attended Wesley and Haileybury Colleges, both in Melbourne and developed an abiding love of cricket.
He attended Haileybury College from 1938 – 43, and Caius College, a constituent college of Cambridge University from 1943 – 44.
He attended the Princes ' College in Ajmer and Haileybury and Imperial Service College in England.
MacCorkindale attended Haileybury and Imperial Service College in Hertfordshire from 1965 – 70, where he was Head Boy and a member of the Air Training Corps.

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