Relatively Speaking - Alan Ayckbourn - BBC Saturday Night Theatre
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- čas přidán 30. 01. 2021
- Relatively Speaking is a play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, originally titled Meet My Father, his first major success
The action of the play takes place during a summer weekend in the bed-sitting room of Ginny's London flat and on the garden patio of Sheila and Philip's home in Buckinghamshire, outside London. The time is 1965.
The play opens in the flat of Greg and Ginny, a young co-habiting couple. Greg finds a strange pair of slippers under the bed and is too besotted to believe they might have been left by another man (which would also explain the bunches of flowers and boxes of sweets filling Ginny's apartment). Ginny goes off for a day in the country, supposedly to visit her parents but actually to break things off with her older married lover, Philip. Greg decides to follow her.
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Cross purpose conversations, absolutely Hilarious, brilliantly writen , excellently performed by the cast, cheered up a rainy afternoon no end, Bravo, Thank you so much😊
Ditto. On a bleak wet Tasmanian winter's day
A lovely return to happy times.
Loved this❤ Would love to see it on stage, a classic farce
Very well written.
Enjoyed it very much.
Thanks for posting 🎉
Brilliantly written have listened several times always makes me laugh, Michael Aldridge & Rosemary Leach are superb. Thank you x
Confusion reigns supreme ...hilarious ... (cheers for the upload)
One of the best plays iv ever listened to.. Irony and ingenuity go hand in hand.. The best..
It could so easily happen in this country when everyone skirts around the issue! Very clever.
Brilliant humor with a little tension mixed in. This writer is so clever and the actors carry it off to the point of absolute hilarity...especially “the parents”. Hahaha 🤣
My face was sore with laughter when act 2 came around and you see what’s happened. A priceless comic masterpiece, great acting and above average fidelity. 😃😄😀
What fun!
This has pushed me perilously close to needing Tena Lady !!! 😂
My God ! The hilarious complexity of this !
Thank you for sharing this....one of my most favourites x
Brilliant play listening to it several times and seeing it in the theatre still find it very entertaining. Thank you.
Where do you see plays like these?
😂that was brilliant thank you ❤
Witty and very enjoyable!
Listening again, its been a while, it will be worth I know!
Brilliant thanks ever so
Me too, listening again. Perfect thank you.🌟
Silly in a clever way, very entertaining, loved it.
So funny! Thank you for posting.
Thanks for listening!
Enjoyed! Laughed out loud at a few spots.
I really liked this one. Hilarious! Thanks.
This was marvelous and so well acted. Thank you!
Brilliant.. Silly…but BRILLIANT…LOL
Very entertaining.
Thank you so much for the upload! You made me very happy! 😀I heard this play a few month ago while I was cleaning and had to stop in between because I was laughing so much. Unfortunately is was deleted.
Glad you enjoy it!
Well written well acted..engaging, I would add that there's more to comedy than fun and this is a good example..life we live
Splendid comedy. Thank you!!!
Just brilliant! Thank you!
Brilliant!
Re listening to this very funny play
So funny!
This is too funny 🤣!!!
Hilarious 😂
I've heard this once before. It escalates quite quickly in to hysterical mayhem. Enjoy!
Great, funny and enjoyable story 😄 😆
Can we have Saturday night theatre back again BBC?
This is going to disappoint you BIG TIME Uncle Chesterton......But I, myself played played Greg....Ginny's lover....in Colne Dramatic Society's mid 90's production of this Ayckborm Masterpiece. I played Greg !....and Maria Bailey played Ginny....and her actual Father-In-Law - Alan Bailey played Ginny's former employer and ex-lover Phillip.
Literal lols! 😂 Always been one of my favs, with an excellent cast to boot! Tysm for all the great uploads CR! More comedy pls. 💙fr Nashville yall! ☺
Very clever and amusing. Written in 1965 so if middle-class humour from that time offends you, try elsewhere. Can’t believe how people moan. Alan Ayckbourn is a multi-award winning writer so not sure why people feel the need to compare him to other writers! This stuff is put out for free people. Remember that.
Hilarious!!!!
👍😂😂😂😂
Getting nowhere fast, but with great precision :-)
Silly daddy
The Willow's - Lower Pendon ....BUCKS.
And-It's the 3rd Sunday after epiphany as well.....! And AS for that trip abroad-....What with ...France,...Germany,...Italy,...Spain,...Switzerland,...Holland,....Denmark--......'And' SWEDEN....!
Hilarious.
👍🏽😀
😃👍
Gave me a headache listening to this one! I know it was written this way, but such confusion!
Vdry good but Greg's voice was wrong. Someone old trying to sound young?
Pretty nasty mocking of Indian heritage/voices.
Nobody forced you to listen.
@@RichardArchibald-jk7msI think that was less of an empty complaint and more of a heads-up for others who might not wish to spend their time on something like that. ‘No one forced you to listen’ only works if you’re aware of what’s there.
The fact is it was written in 1965. Times have changed and we are all glad of that. However, judging the whole play on a split second is just silly.
O get a grip, 🤡🤡
All a little bit twee and middle class for me.... Ayckbourn, as a farceur, is not in the same class of Wodehouse.
Yes, his male characters in particular are about as much use as a neutered tomcat . It's vaguely
amusing but he's no Noel Coward
or Bernard Shaw .
The English and there stilted manners, social proprieties and niceties and the need to maintain confusion! Can't listen to any more - waste of time!