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Explore the comedy in one of Alan Ayckbourn's dramas from the collection 'Confusions'. In this essay I shall study and explore the ways in which Alan Ayckbourn generates comedy in one of his dramas called 'Mother Figure'. The term 'comedy' is defined as 'a light amusing drama; amusing incident.' In my opinion it encapsulates something deliberately funny, something that is unusual, light heart hearted or unexpected or sometimes a subtle implication. It can also be a play with a happy outcome, a characteristic of the traditional stage interpretation of the term 'comedy'. Stereotypes are created and used to generate comedy. With Lucy for example, Ayckbourn has given her a concerned motherly character reprimanding Terry and Rosemary in the same manner as she would her own children. This is shown when Lucy discovers that Terry has eaten two biscuits: 'Well that's it. No more after that.' This shows her assumed position of authority in the...

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