Henceforward
- Full Length Play, Dark Comedy
- 3M, 4F
- ISBN: 9780573016912
"A superbly constructed comedy."
Daily Telegraph
Description
- Full Length Play
- Dark Comedy
- Set Requirements: Interior Set
It is sometime quite soon in a steel shuttered, slovenly flat in a no go area of North London where punks rule deserted streets. Here, a lonely composer sits surrounded by high tech equipment. His only company is a robot nanny, and she's on the blink.
He desperately wants to reclaim his teenage daughter and enlists an out of work actress to implement a cunning plan he's evolved to impress his estranged wife and a wired for sound child welfare officer.
When things don't work out, Jerome has to improvise... It's amazing what can be done with new micro chips and a screwdriver!
REVIEWS:
"This brilliant play offers an ultimately bleak vision of men, machines and society. But the exhilarating Ayckbournian paradox is that the darker it gets the funnier it becomes."
The Guardian
"A superbly constructed comedy."
Daily Telegraph
"Nobody can be as funny as Alan Ayckbourn, or as frightening."
Financial Times
It was subsequently presented by Michael Codron at the Vaudeville Theatre, London, on 21st November, 1988.
Characters
- Casting: 3M, 4F
CORINNA - his wife
GEAIN - their daughter
ZOË - an actress
MERVYN - a welfare officer
NAN 300F
LUPUS - (seen on video only)
YOUNG GEAIN - (seen on video only)
Available Material
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Henceforward Script
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