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"Ayckbourn has a genius for technical gags: the action which freezes at the flick of a switch; the background music automatically swelling behind emotional moments; Jacie's sudden blurting out of odd lines learnt for a long-ago cop drama; the well-judged double take; the accurate custard pie....[Ayckbourn's conventional sketches] are very funny, but funnier still are the moments of originality, when the play lifts off into sublimity...."Ayckbourn, Alan is the author of 'Comic Potential' with ISBN 9780571197873 and ISBN 0571197876.
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