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...Chorus of Disapproval (1983) After the death of his wife, a man joins an amateur theater company performing The Beggar's Opera, and unwittingly turns everyone's life upside down. A big play (unusually long for Ayckbourn) with a large cast, but one of his most entertaining - though you couldn't tell it from the botched 1988 movie version starring Anthony Hopkins...
...Revengers Comedies (1989) A man and woman meet on London's Albert Bridge and plot to "exchange" murders. She goes after his hated boss, then expects him to bump off her rival in love. This epic updating of Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train is hampered by its two-play length, but it is Ayckbourn at the very top of his game...
...Wildest Dreams (1991) A group of friends gather regularly to play a Dungeons and Dragons-style roleplaying game, which gradually takes over their lives. One of Ayckbourn's darkest plays - one character regresses to infancy before our eyes - unjustly neglected since its 1993 London premiere at the Royal Shakespeare Company...
...watching with you. But resist the urge to simply hop on the bandwagon. Root for your true home team, keeping in mind the connections your team built between you and your hometown and the experiences and joys that it gave you throughout your childhood. As I watch the Bulls play the Celtics this week, win or lose, I’ll sleep soundly knowing I haven’t sold my soul; I’m rooting for the home team...
...proclaimed “theater outsider,” Sarnak had never even seen a theater production at Harvard before she starting writing this musical in the summer before her senior year.Working in a lab her sophomore year, Sarnak would set up experiments and then run next store to play the piano. The musical started with a song, which Sarnak then built a character around. Then came more songs, and more characters, and a storyline started to develop. But Sarnak was only beginning to see that she could do something more with her passion for writing songs. In her junior...