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Terrified of cities, Ayckbourn lives in Scarborough, a resort on the North Sea, 230 miles north of London, where he and Heather have a converted vicarage. He is director of a theater-in-the-round with some 300 seats. He puts on new works and old, but every year, shortly after Christmas, he is certain of one production, a new play by Alan Ayckbourn. Some time in November he sharpens his pencils, gets out his pad of paper from Woolworth's and shuts himself up. Heather can tell when the time is approaching because "he gets slightly weirder...
Though it is new to Broadway, Bedroom Farce is only his 18th play; his 21st, Joking Apart, just opened in London; and his 22nd, Sisterly Feelings, is on tour in England. Ayckbourn enjoys all kinds of games and puzzles-he has a vast game room in Scarborough-and his plays are like Chinese boxes. The Norman Conquests looks at the same people from three different angles; Bedroom Farce hops into three bedrooms; Sisterly Feelings has two third acts. From night to night no one, Ayckbourn included, knows which one will be played. At the end of the second...
Apparently not when he sticks to Government regulations. About 30 ninth-graders were watching an antismoking film at Scarborough High School in Houston when HEW Secretary Joseph Califano came whizzing through on a tour of the city's schools. He asked how many of the students smoked. "Be honest," he added. The only one who admitted to smoking was Shawn Galloway, 16, who has been puffing up to three packs a day since the age of ten. Califano told Shawn that if she gave up smoking, she and a friend could have a free trip to Washington...
Since geographical distances are nominal, Britain gains from cross-fertilization between the bustling regional theaters and the London scene. Trevor Griffiths' Comedians originated at the Nottingham Playhouse. All of Alan Ayckbourn's recent plays, including Absent Friends, were initially presented at the Library Theater in Scarborough (Yorkshire), where Ayckbourn is director of productions. The underlying significance of the two leading repertory companies, the National Theater (TIME, March 15) and the Royal Shakespeare Company, is not simply that they exist and command ample subsidies but that they represent touchstones by which all members of the English theatrical community...
...since Tommy it's a pretty trite trick. The conventional film segments at the end only expose the paucity of the caricatures and if Bakshi is forced already in his second film to resort to autobiography--he sees himself as a kind of Dustin Hoffman character, and shamelessly tacks "Scarborough Fair" onto the sound track--then is much touted "possibilities" must be questioned. Animation demands new tricks all the time, and it seems doubtful whether any one-man show--and especially this one--can continue to provide them for very long...