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Contextualising the play Absurd Person SIngular This is an essay about the social, historical and cultural aspects of Alan Ayckbourn's 'Absurd Person Singular'. I have studied the playwright and the time period in which it was written, in order to get an overview of what influenced his ideas. I came across a synopsis when researching to give some indication of Ayckbourn's intentions: o We visit three couples in their kitchens on the Christmas Eves of three successive years. First the 'lower-class' but very much up-and-coming Hopcrofts in the bright new-pin, gadget-filled kitchen - anxiously giving a little party to their bank manager and his wife, and an architect neighbour. Then the architect and his wife in their neglected untidy flat. Lastly, the bank manager and his wife in their large, slightly modernised, old-Victorian style kitchen. (Ayckbourn gives us detailed descriptions of the kitchens which reflect class and the prediction that electronic household...

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