The Alan Ayckbourn Collection Audiobook (Free)

Six plays from the Olivier, Tony and Moliere Honor being successful playwright Alan Ayckbourn: The legendary The Norman Conquests trilogy; as well as a brand new recording of his play Henceforward… starring Mad Men’s Jarred Harris alongside Anne Heche; Simply Between Ourselves starring Alfred Molina; and a remaster of L.A. Theatre Works’ recording of Man of as soon as.

Ayckbourn’s celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests – 3 hilarious and poignant plays depicting the same six characters in one house about The Alan Ayckbourn Collection over a single weekend, namely Norman and his intimate follies.

Desk Manners (The Norman Conquest part 1):

Britain’s famous seducer of other guys’s wives lays siege to his sister-in-law in the first “fight”. A middle-class family trying to have a pleasant country weekend is definitely no match for Norman, who horrifies everyone by doing exactly as he likes.

Living Together (The Norman Conquest part 2):

In the next “battle” Norman gets drunk on homemade wine – and all hell breaks loose. He unleashes his merry brand of manipulative charm over the hapless guests and even his most formidable opponents go down in defeat for the drawing area rug.

Round and Across the Backyard (The Norman Conquest component 3):

In the third “battle” the placing is Mother’s overgrown British garden, where something more troublesome than brambles lurks among the roses. Havoc ensues as this satirical masterpiece makes its method to a hilarious conclusion.

Solid: Rosalind Ayres seeing that Sarah, Kenneth Danziger while Reg, Martin Jarvis as Norman, Jane Leeves as Annie, Christopher Neame while Tom, and Carolyn Seymour as Ruth. Directed by Dennis Erdman.

Just Between Ourselves:

Starring Alfred Molina, this is actually the first of Ayckbourn’s darkly comic masterpieces entails a relentlessly cheerful handyman inside a disastrously fractured marriage. Two couples develop an unlikely friendship with this painfully funny family portrait of English suburban life.

Cast: Gia Carides while Pam, Kenneth Danziger seeing that Dennis, Judy Geeson as Vera, Miriam Margolyes seeing that Marjorie and Alfred Molina seeing that Neil. Directed by Waris Hussein.

Henceforward…

Writers stop, divorce and a lady robot. They are the elements for the hilarious Henceforward. Alan Ayckbourn writes about the not distant potential of what measures a man will head to be inspired once again, gain the like of his daughter and redress the discomfort of his past.

Solid: Jared Harris seeing that Jerome, Anne Heche as Nan (take action I actually) and Corrina, Jack Davenport while Mervyn, Paula Jane Newman while Geain, Moira Quirk seeing that Zoe and Nan (work II) and Darren Richardson as Lupus. Directed by Martin Jarvis.

Man of as soon as:

The price tag on accidental fame is hashed out with this comedy, insired by the fantastic Train Robbers such as Edwards and Ronnie Biggs, about a famous bank robber and the clerk who foiled his biggest heist. Ayckbourn’s 1988 play anticipates the popularity – and absurdity – of actuality TV.

Cast: Rosalind Ayres while Jill Rillington, Jane Carr as Trudy Parks, Kenneth Danziger seeing that Douglas Beechey, Martin Jarvis as Vic Parks, Ian Oglivy seeing that Kenny Collins and Yeardley Smith as Sharon Giffin. Directed by Robert Robinson.