With its ‘Love Actually’-style branding, the Artistic Licence Theatre Company’s amateur presentation of Alan Aykbourn’s Absurd Person Singular promises to bring laughter to the Torch next week.
Three couples, three acts and three Christmases all add up to Absurd Person Singular.
The three couples, Sidney and Jane, Geoffrey and Eva, and Ronald and Marion, meet on three successive Christmases in their respective kitchens, but all is not what it seems and there’s a sting in the tail.
Their changing fortunes and the strains of the festive season combined with Alan Aykbourn’s wicked wit and dark observation will result in one of his funniest plays to appear on the Torch Theatre stage this February.
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An amateur performance by arrangement with Concord Theatricals UK, Absurd Person Singular is presented by Artistic Licence and will be full of belly-laughs as the audience witnesses the characters’ climbs and falls within society.
The hilarious comedy of rollercoaster emotions and the changing fortunes of three married couples, highlights life in the 1970’s – focusing on social class, friendship, marriage and the life of the ordinary person.
Written in 1972 by the well-known British Playwright, the comedy play with dark undertones, is divided into three acts. The play made its world premiere at the Library Theatre, Scarborough on June 26, 1972 and was revived once again in Scarborough 40 years later.
Over the years, it became so popular as a theatre show that it was made into a TV play in 1985 and still has appeal today.
A cracker of a show, Absurd Person Singular will be live on the Torch Theatre stage in Milford Haven on February 5, 6 and 7 February at 7.30pm and February 8 at 2.30pm. For tickets, call the Box Office on 01646 695267 or visit torchtheatre.co.uk.