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by Alan Ayckbourn
On-stage at the Duchess Theatre, Chatsworth Centre, West Gate, Long Eaton
Thursday 4th - Saturday 6th November 2010
7.30pm
From Ayckbourn’s trilogy ‘Damsels in Distress', RolePlay is a hilarious piece with dark undertones, a vintage ‘dinner-party from hell’. Ayckbourn is a master at handling people divided by class, accent, habits and race. A young well-to-do couple, living in a posh docklands apartment, have planned a civilised occasion when they hope to introduce each other’s parents and also announce their engagement. The situation is tense enough before the arrival of two unexpected guests, one a lap-dancing gangster’s moll, the other her burly gun-toting minder. What her parents (the bigoted northern stereotype and his dim twittering wife) and his mother (toy-boy chasing and drink-soaked) find when they arrive shows us that the bourgeois guests, under their respective veneers, are far more frightening than the interlopers. Each of Ayckbourn’s characters is playing a role to escape reality
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