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Improbable Fiction
by
Alan Ayckbourn
11th - 18th June 2022
The play takes its title from a line in that play of reversals and
wish fulfilment, Twelfth Night. In Improbable Fiction, Ayckbourn has
devised a plot as insanely topsy-turvy as Shakespeare’s.
Improbable Fiction is Alan Ayckbourn’s 69th play, wherein everyone in
the Pendon Writers’ Circle, a self-help group for the creatively
stalled and artistically deluded, is having collective writers’
block. However, the presence of a rather ordinary young girl
unleashes their imaginations – with surprising results!
Improbable Fiction sends up Dorothy L Sayers, Jane Austen and The
X-Files – with a selection of spoof sci-fi characters, a detective
that any crime writer would be proud to disown, a damsel in distress,
and the abduction of his mother by aliens, the story lines overlap
and interweave around a bemused Arnold.
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Grace | Josie Harrison |
Ilsa | Jessica Trimble |
Jess | Victoria Johnson |
Vivvi | Carys Jones |
Brevis | Charlie Cook |
Arnold | Ian Fensome |
Clem | Alex Newman |
Director | Victor Hassan |
Stage Manager | Al Fowkes |
Prompt | Colette Fitton |
Props | Fenella Fowkes |
ASM | Diana Boswell, Melissa Thompson, Oliver Turner |
Lighting | Chris Hills, Bruce Williams |
Sound | Alan James, Mark Seyler |
Wardrobe | Di James |
Musical supervision | Chris McClory, Doug MacDonald |
Rehearsal photographs | Chris Hills, John O'Brien |
Ticket Secretary | Denise Soussi |
House Manager | Anne Cichocki, Fred Donnan, Ronnie Dykstra, Donna Johnstone, Joan Taylor-Jones, Caroline Lucas |
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