Word: bedroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...castles, palaces or monasteries; all have good restaurants serving the specialties of the region and require advance registration. At Alarcon, for example, on the road to Valencia from Madrid, the Parador Marqués de Villena is a 10th century turreted castle, where a lucky visitor may rent a tower bedroom for $22 a night...
...explosive offstage marital squabble between Trevor and Susannah wrecks Malcolm and Kate's party. After that the cancerous couple metastasizes. Susannah flees to the bedroom of Ernest and Delia, Trevor's parents, and gives Delia a hysterical display of the nocturnal hoo-ha's. Trevor cadges 40 winks on a sofa at Nick and Jan's, an excruciating indulgence, in Nick's helpless view, since Trevor had once been Jan's lover...
...dawn, the tarantula twosome slithers, separately, into the bedroom of Malcolm and Kate, and on encountering a rickety desk that Malcolm has spent all night assembling, Trevor, with one helping touch, reduces it to a pile of kindling. Ayckbourn is an alchemist of incipient disaster, and his absurdist humor cuts through the veneer of domestic tranquillity with a serrated edge. Yet his surgery is oddly healing, a kind of revelation through copious laughter and minimal malice...
Though it is new to Broadway, Bedroom Farce is only his 18th play; his 21st, Joking Apart, just opened in London; and his 22nd, Sisterly Feelings, is on tour in England. Ayckbourn enjoys all kinds of games and puzzles-he has a vast game room in Scarborough-and his plays are like Chinese boxes. The Norman Conquests looks at the same people from three different angles; Bedroom Farce hops into three bedrooms; Sisterly Feelings has two third acts. From night to night no one, Ayckbourn included, knows which one will be played. At the end of the second...
Ayckbourn's aim is to write about serious matters in a funny way. One-liners terrify him even more than dentists and barbers. "There are not more than three funny lines in all of Bedroom Farce," he says proudly. At this point Heather confides his real ambition. "What Alan would like to do," she says, "is to write a funny King Lear." But with at least two third acts...