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Form and structure of Absurd Person Singular Plays are usually divided into acts and scenes. However in Absurd Person Singular we can clearly see three acts although there is evidently one scene in each act which in itself is a continuous sequence of events. Playwrights often have parallel scenes at different points in a play, or juxtapose two very different scenes to make a point. However Alan Ayckbourn juxtaposes the acts by having each act as the consecutive year therefore highlighting the change that we see. I find that Alan Ayckbourn has two or three plot lines going at once, and he uses the sub-plots to illuminate the main plot. The play is a farce with comical acts however he maintains to incorporate the serious undertones. The structure of the play is distinctively unique; it is not a one way play as each act is a story in...

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