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Confusions
Alan Ayckbourn
Main CharactersLucy (Mother Figure): A mother so isolated by childcare that she has lost the ability to interact with adults as anything other than naughty children. Harry (Drinking Companion): A lonely, unsuccessful seducer who uses desperate and transparent tactics to engage a young woman in a hotel bar. Gosforth (Gosforth’s Fete): A panicked publican whose attempts to run a perfect village fete are destroyed by a series of accidental, amplified revelations.
First Performance: 1974, at Library Theatre, Scarborough
A major success; praised for its versatility and its keen, often painful, observation of social embarrassment.
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