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House

  • Alan Ayckbourn
  • Full Length Play, Comedy
  • 6M, 8F, 7M or F
  • ISBN: 9780573019784

Teddy Platt, whose marriage is spectacularly on the rocks, is visited by the creepy Gavin Ring-Mayne, who is trying to persuade him to stand for Parliament.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Comedy
  • 120 minutes

  • Target Audience: Pre-Teen (Age 11 - 13), Teen (Age 14 - 18), Children (Age 6 - 10), Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior set
  • Cautions: Mild Adult Themes

  • Performance Group:
  • Community Theatre, College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups
Teddy Platt, whose marriage is spectacularly on the rocks, is visited by the creepy Gavin Ring-Mayne, who is trying to persuade him to stand for Parliament. In the original production at Scarborough, and later at the National Theatre, the play was performed in adjacent auditoria simultaneously with Garden.

Contained in the volume House & Garden.
REVIEWS:

"Perhaps his [Ayckbourn's] greatest work. An engaging, high precision production."

The Daily Telegraph

"It's audacious, crazy and altogether brilliant."

The Times

Premiere Production: House & Garden was first performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, on June 17th, 1999 under the direction of Alan Ayckbourn.

Characters

  • Casting: 6M, 8F, 7M or F
  • Casting Attributes: Room for Extras, Roles for Children

  • TEDDY PLATT - a businessman; 40s
    TRISH PLATT - his wife, a designer; 40s
    SALLY PLATT - their daughter, a schoolgirl; 17
    GILES MACE - a doctor; late 30s
    JOANNA MACE - his wife, a teacher; late 30s
    JAKE MACE - their son, a student reporter; 19-20
    GAVIN RYNG-MAYNE - a novelist; late 40s
    BARRY LOVE - a shopkeeper; 30s
    LINDA - his wife, a shopkeeper; 30s
    FRAN BRIGGS - her driver
    WARN COUCHER - a gardener; late 50s-early 60s
    IZZIE TRUCE - a housekeeper; late 50s
    PEARL TRUCE - an occasional cleaner; late 20s
    MAYPOLE DANCERS & BANDSMEN - several children of about seven or eight years old

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    Teddy Platt, whose marriage is spectacularly on the rocks, is visited by the creepy Gavin Ring-Mayne, who is trying to persuade him to stand for Parliament. 

    In the original production at Scarborough, and later at the National Theatre, the play was performed in adjacent auditoria simultaneously with Garden.

    Contained in the volume House & Garden.

    "Prehaps his [Ayckbourn's] greatest work. An engaging, high precision production." - The Daily Telegraph

    "It's audacious, crazy and altogether brilliant." - The Times

    House & Garden was first performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, on June 17th, 1999 under the direction of Alan Ayckbourn.

    		$24.95

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