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This is one of Ayckbourn's funniest and best loved
comedies, and centres on a diffident widower who attempts to escape from his
loneliness by joining the local amateur light operatic society.
By accident,
rather than by design (in fact, by not saying no to anything, be it a request
to obtain confidential information from his company or an offer of illicit sex)
he advances from a one-line part to the lead.
Ayckbourn's script shows us how
painfully embarrassed are the British in the face of emotion and keeps us
laughing in happy recognition. |