Joking Apart
Joking Apart Author: Alan Ayckbourn
First Performance: 1978, Scarborough
Published: 1979
Genre: Com. in 2 acts
Setting: English garden, 1966–78
Cast: 4m, 7f (4 roles to be played by same actress)
Richard Clarke and Anthea, a divorcee with two children, are a charming and successful couple in their twenties. They have invited people to their bonfire party: their new neighbours, Revd Hugh and Louise Emerson, their old friend Brian with his latest girlfriend Melody, and Sven and Olive Holmenson. Sven, a rather self-important Finn, is Richard's business colleague in a firm of importers of Scandinavian household goods, and Brian works for them. Melody is unhappy, because Brian is still in love with Anthea. Four years later, Brian is visiting with a new girlfriend Mandy (played by the same actress as Melody). Sven...
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