There are those rare instances when a director perfectly casts and directs a play. The actor in every role inhabits the playwright’s characters and delivers performances that transcend an exceptional ...
The play is Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends, staged by Catherine Lomax as the latest in a twice-yearly sequence of in-house productions at Stevenage's Gordon Craig Theatre – itself dating from the ...
Alan Ayckbourn‘s Absent Friends is very much a product of its time. Written and set in the 1970s, it gives an intimate and excruciating view of what happens when a group of old friends spend the ...