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Kitchen No. 3 (Ronald and Marion's) is a rambling country affair. This is the least funny sequence, but it does contain a wacky party game. Throughout the evening, lickety-split timing, top acting and Ayckbourn's eye for the nuances of social ascent and descent make this comedy a present happily opened before Dec. 24. "T.E.Kalem
This play walks a zigzag line between comedy and farce and often manages to be staggeringly funny. Alan Ayckbourn, a sly chronicler of British suburbia, gets three couples together on successive Christmas Eves in their respective kitchens and wreaks droll havoc on their status and character...
Adultery has always been an enjoyable, although a sometimes tense hobby, and the play by Alan Ayckbourn tries to make the most of a situation where two lovers and their mates, making four, unwittingly include another pair, to complete a six-piece merry-go-round...