Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 6 - Time of My Life; Neighbourhood Watch; Arrivals and Departures; Hero's Welcome; A Brief History of Women (Ayckbourn Alan)(Paperback / softback)

With an Introduction by the author. "The prolific master of suburban mayhem has still got his mojo."--Evening Standard Time of My Life "One of Mr. Ayckbourn's most virtuosic experiments in postmodern narrative."--Wall Street Journal Neighbourhood Watch "Ayckbourn's tartly topical, pitch-black comedy, a startling evocation of the panic induced by nightmarish notions of "broken Britain"... An arresting, nastily comic cautionary tale."--The Times Arrivals and Departures "Ayckbourn's genius lies in his ability to write what you might call 'sad comedies, ' uproariously funny farces that are at second glance deeply serious, at times despairing portraits of modern middle-class life and its discontents. On occasion, as in Arrivals & Departures, he puts the despair at centre stage, and what results is a play that at bottom can no longer be
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