Time and Time Again
From 7 October 2002
To 12 October 2002
by Alan Ayckbourn
Description
Time and Time Again is one of Alan Ayckbourn's best-loved comedies. It was first performed over 30 years ago and yet this is its first performance by The Nonentities. It is still fresh and relevant as the foibles of human nature remain a constant factor in life and a continual source of humour. The plot revolves around cricket, a congenial garden gnome and a sequence of incredible misunderstandings. It is a richly humorous, wryly accurate glance at suburban, middle-class idiosyncrasies.
When womaniser Graham meets his employee Peter's fiancée, he makes a bee-line for her as usual. However, the young lady strays instead to Graham's brother-in-law Leonard, a poetic fumbler who holds conversations with a garden gnome. Ayckbourn succeeds by exploring with humour and pathos the relationship between five adults with their own idiosyncrasies. The play should leave you with the feeling that you have spent the evening with familiar friends whose foibles you know and accept.
Alan Ayckbourn has written more than sixty plays which have won numerous awards,
including seven London Evening Standard Awards, and have been translated into
more than thirty languages. Two years ago The Nonentities presented his play
Communicating Doors to full houses and welcome the opportunity to perform one
of his works which helped establish his playwrighting credentials.