Invisible friends play alan ayckbourn biography
Invisible Friends is a 1989 children's play by the British playwright Alan Ayckbourn....
Invisible Friends: Quotes by Alan Ayckbourn
Invisible Friends is a 1989 children's play by the British playwright Alan Ayckbourn.
This is gentler. You don't send the little girl stark raving mad.... I'm also trying to retain as much as possible the colours that I put into the adult plays. That is, I would like them to try a little - not too much - I would like them to laugh, of course, and to be excited, and to be afraid, but not so they can't sleep.
Lucy is an ordinary teenager with an extraordinary imagination who, unhappy with her own family, revives her childhood fantasy friend, Zara.My ulterior motive is to excite the children into coming back when they're 25, so we haven't got another lost generation saying: 'the theatre is something I don't understand.'"
(Daily Telegraph, 17 November 1989)
"I wanted to write entertaining, intelligent plays that children would like, that would give them a full range of emotional experiences.
It wouldn't be just a lot of custard being poured over each other (although I'm a huge Laurel and Hardy fan and I think custard is great!). I want plays to be a bit frightenin