Alan Ayckbourn

This coming Thursday I’m doing a post-show talk at Chichester Festival Theatre about Alan Ayckbourn entitled ‘Britain’s Secret Radical’. The talk will talk a bit about his consistent history of dramaturgical invention and innovation, his explorations of space and time, and the way he uses those devices increasingly to explore the values of a culture dominated by money. The talk is accompanying his revival of Absurd Person Singular (pictured) which, in the character of Sidney Hopcroft, started to sense the emergence of the Thatcherite entrepreneur.

The talk is in the Minerva auditorium at 6.00 on Thursday 4 September.