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A Comparison of the Performance of 'Confusions' by Alan Ayckbourn
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... A Comparison of the Performance of 'Confusions' by Alan Ayckbourn We performed Confusions by Alan Ayckbourn on 28th November 2002. Since it is divided into five short plays which all relate to each other, separate groups performed different plays, or scenes. My group used the scene "A Talk in the Park" as our performance piece. I will be comparing this scene to "A View from the Bridge", written by Arthur Miller, and the television soap "Eastenders". "A Talk in the Park" illustrates the comedy of human behaviour as well as making the audience aware of the underlying tones of loneliness and isolation, where the protagonists, five contrasting characters sitting on separate benches, give vent to their innermost feelings. The irony of this is that they are willing to confide in a perfect stranger but are not themselves prepared to listen. It was written in the 1970's. "A View from the Bridge",













