Editing Alan Ayckbourn (section)

==Works==

===Full-length plays===
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! Play number<ref group=nb>This numbering is the system used by the official Ayckbourn site as to how many plays have been written. This includes the full-length plays performed but later withdrawn and full-length plays for family audiences, but excludes revues and musical entertainments, adaptations of other plays, plays for children, individual one-act plays, "grey plays" (those written for performance but not publication) and plays for television. It also treats each of the plays in ''[[The Norman Conquests]]'', ''[[House & Garden (plays)|House and Garden]]'' and ''[[Damsels In Distress (plays)|Damsels in Distress]]'' as one play each, the one-acts from ''[[Confusions]]'' as a single full-length play, all variations of ''Intimate Exchanges'' as one play (likewise for ''Sisterly Feelings'' and ''It Could Be Any One Of Us''), both parts of ''[[The Revengers' Comedies]]'' as a single play, and the rewrites of ''Jeeves'' and ''Callisto 5'' as the same play as the original. Other sources may number plays differently.</ref>
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! [[Stephen Joseph Theatre|Scarborough]] premiere<ref>Stephen Joseph Theatre premiere dates on Ayckbourn site [http://ataglance.alanayckbourn.net/Glance01.htm]{{dead link|date=July 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} [http://ataglance.alanayckbourn.net/Glance02.htm]{{dead link|date=June 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}} [http://ataglance.alanayckbourn.net/Glance03.htm]{{dead link|date=June 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref><ref group=nb>Scarborough premieres of Ayckbourn plays between 1959 and 1976 were at the original venue of the Library Theatre, and premieres between 1977 and 1995 were at the intermediate venue of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round at Westwood. Premieres from 1996 were at the current Stephen Joseph Theatre, in the Round unless otherwise stated. In some productions, the official premiere date was later than the actual opening night. The premiere date is shown here.</ref>
! [[West End theatre|West End]] premiere<ref>[http://ataglance.alanayckbourn.net/Glance04.htm West End premiere dates on Ayckbourn site]{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
! New York premiere<ref>[http://ataglance.alanayckbourn.net/Glance05.htm Broadway premiere dates on Ayckbourn site]{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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|1
|colspan="2"|''The Square Cat'' <ref group="nb" name="withdrawn">This play is withdrawn. It is not available for production and it is intended that the script will never be published. However, a copy is available at the Bob Watson archive in Scarborough. [http://publications.alanayckbourn.net/PublicationsUnpublished.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215010730/http://publications.alanayckbourn.net/PublicationsUnpublished.htm|date=15 February 2009}}</ref>
|30 July 1959
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|2
|colspan="2"|''Love After All''<ref name=withdrawn group=nb/>
|21 December 1959
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|3
|colspan="2"|''Dad's Tale''<ref name=withdrawn group=nb/>
|19 December 1960
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|4
|colspan="2"|''Standing Room Only''<ref name=withdrawn group=nb/>
|13 July 1961
|(12 June 1966) <ref group=nb>This play was not performed in the West End but was performed in the British Council, London Overseas Student Centre for one night only. {{cite web |url=http://standingroomonly.alanayckbourn.net/StandingRoomOnlyProductions.htm |title=Alan Ayckbourn Plays: Standing Room Only |access-date=23 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517165145/http://standingroomonly.alanayckbourn.net/StandingRoomOnlyProductions.htm |archive-date=17 May 2008  }}</ref>
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|5
|colspan="2"|''Christmas V Mastermind''<ref name=withdrawn group=nb/>
|26 December 1962
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|6
|colspan="2"|''Mr Whatnot''
|12 November 1963
|6 August 1964
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|7
|colspan="2"|''[[Relatively Speaking (play)|Relatively Speaking]]'' <ref group=nb>''[[Relatively Speaking (play)|Relatively Speaking]]'' was originally titled ''Meet My Father''</ref>
|9 July 1965
|29 March 1967
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|8
|colspan="2"|''[[The Sparrow (1967 play)|The Sparrow]]''<ref name=withdrawn group=nb/>
|13 July 1967
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|9
|colspan="2"|''[[How the Other Half Loves]]''
|31 July 1969
| 5 August 1970
| 29 March 1971
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|10
|colspan="2"|''Family Circles'' <ref group=nb>''Family Circles'' was originally titled ''The Story So Far...'', then ''Me Times Me Times Me'', then ''Me Times Me''</ref>
| 20 August 1970
| 8 October 1974
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|11
|colspan="2"|''Time And Time Again''
|8 July 1971
|16 August 1972
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|12
|colspan="2"|''[[Absurd Person Singular]]''
|26 June 1972
|4 July 1973
|8 October 1974
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|13
|rowspan="3"|''[[The Norman Conquests]]''
|''Table Manners'' <ref group=nb>''Table Manners'' was originally titled ''Fancy Meeting You''</ref>
| 18 June 1973
| 9 May 1974
| 7 December 1975
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|14
|''[[Living Together (play)|Living Together]]'' <ref group=nb>''[[Living Together (play)|Living Together]]'' was originally titled ''Make Yourself at Home''</ref>
| 26 June 1973
| 21 May 1974
| 7 December 1975
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|15
|''Round and Round the Garden''
| 2 July 1973
| 6 June 1974
| 7 December 1975
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|16
|colspan="2"|''[[Absent Friends (play)|Absent Friends]]''
|17 June 1974
|23 July 1975
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|17
|colspan="2"|''[[Confusions]] ''<ref group=nb>''[[Confusions]]'' is a set of five loosely connected one-act plays.</ref>
|30 September 1974
|19 May 1976
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|18
|colspan="2"|''[[Jeeves (musical)|Jeeves]]''<ref name=withdrawn group=nb/><ref name=Jeeves group=nb>''Jeeves'' is a musical collaboration with [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]], re-written 1996 as ''[[By Jeeves]]''.</ref>
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| 22 April 1975
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|19
|colspan="2"|''[[Bedroom Farce (play)|Bedroom Farce]]''
| 16 June 1975
| 16 March 1977
| 29 March 1979
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|20
|colspan="2"|''Just Between Ourselves''
| 28 January 1976
| 20 April 1977
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|21
|colspan="2"|''Ten Times Table''
| 18 January 1977
| 5 April 1978
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|22
|colspan="2"|''[[Joking Apart (play)|Joking Apart]]''
| 11 January 1978
| 7 March 1979
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|23
|colspan="2"|''[[Sisterly Feelings]]''
| 10/11 January 1979<ref name=Sisterly group=nb>Two variations of ''Sisterly Feelings'' were premiered on separate nights.</ref>
| 3/4 June 1980<ref name=Sisterly group=nb/>
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|24
|colspan="2"|''[[Taking Steps]]''
| 28 September 1979
| 2 September 1980
| 20 February 1991
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|25
|colspan="2"|''Suburban Strains''
| 18 January 1980
| 5 February 1981
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|26
|colspan="2"|''[[Season's Greetings (play)|Season's Greetings]]''
| 25 September 1980
| 29 March 1982
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|27
|colspan="2"|''[[Way Upstream]]''
|2 October 1981
| 4 October 1982
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|28
|colspan="2"|''[[Making Tracks (Ayckbourn play)|Making Tracks]]''<ref name=withdrawn group=nb/>
| 16 December 1981
| 14 March 1983
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|rowspan="8"|29
|rowspan="8"|''[[Intimate Exchanges]]''<ref group=nb>''Intimate Exchanges'' is a play with four two-way forks in the plot, thereby offering sixteen possible variations depending on choices made by the characters. The eight variations offered after the third fork are often treated as individual plays.</ref>
|''Affairs in a Tent''
|rowspan="8"| 3 June 1982
|rowspan="8"| 14 August 1984
|rowspan="8"| (31 May 2007) <ref group=nb>The New York Premiere of ''Intimate Exchanges'', was off-Broadway at [[Primary Stages Theater|59E59]] as part of the 2006–07 revival.</ref>
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|''Events on a Hotel Terrace''
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|''A Garden Fete''
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|''A Pageant''
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|''A Cricket Match''
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|''A Game of Golf''
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|''A One Man Protest''
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|''Love in the Mist''
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|30
|colspan="2"|''[[It Could Be Any One Of Us]]'' <ref group=nb>''It Could Be Any One Of Us'' is a single play with three alternative endings.</ref>
| 5 October 1983
| 14 March 1983
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''[[A Chorus of Disapproval (play)|A Chorus of Disapproval]]''
| 2 May 1984
| 1 August 1985
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|32
|colspan="2"|''[[Woman in Mind]]''
| 30 May 1985
| 3 September 1986
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|33
|colspan="2"|''[[A Small Family Business]]''
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|20 May 1987
| 27 April 1992
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|34
|colspan="2"|''[[Henceforward...]]''
| 30 July 1987
| 21 November 1988
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|35
|colspan="2"|''[[Man Of The Moment (play)|Man of the Moment]]''
| 10 August 1988
| 14 February 1990
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|36
|colspan="2"|''[[Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays]]''
| 30 November 1988
| 4 March 1993
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|37
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''[[The Revengers' Comedies]]'' <ref group=nb>''[[The Revengers' Comedies]]'' is a two-part play normally performed over two separate evenings.</ref>
| 13 June 1989
| 13 March 1991
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|38
|colspan="2"|''[[Invisible Friends]]''
| 23 November 1989
| 13 March 1991
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|39
|colspan="2"|''[[Body Language (play)|Body Language]]''
| 21 May 1990
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|40
|colspan="2"|''This Is Where We Came In''
| 4/11 January 1990
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|41
|colspan="2"|''Callisto 5'' <ref group=nb name=callisto>''Callisto 5'' was re-written in 1999 as ''Callisto #7.''</ref>
| 12 December 1990
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|42
|colspan="2"|''[[Wildest Dreams (play)|Wildest Dreams]]''
| 6 May 1991
| 14 December 1993
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|43
|colspan="2"|''My Very Own Story''
| 10 August 1991
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|44
|colspan="2"|''[[Time of My Life (play)|Time of My Life]]''
| 21 April 1992
| 3 August 1993
| 6 June 2014
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|45
|colspan="2"|''Dreams From A Summer House''
| 26 August 1992
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|46
|colspan="2"|''[[Communicating Doors]]''
| 2 February 1994
| 7 August 1995
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|47
|colspan="2"|''[[Haunting Julia]]''<ref name=bump group=nb>''Haunting Julia'' and ''Snake in the Grass'' were originally written as stand-alone plays. In 2008, they were included in the trilogy ''[[Things That Go Bump (plays)|Things That Go Bump]]'' with the newly written ''Life and Beth''.</ref>
| 20 April 1994
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|48
|colspan="2"|''The Musical Jigsaw Play''<ref name=withdrawn group=nb/>
| 1 December 1994
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|49
|colspan="2"|''A Word From Our Sponsor''
| 20 April 1995
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|colspan="2"| ''[[By Jeeves]] ''<ref name=Jeeves group=nb/>
| 2 July 1996
| 2 July 1996
| 28 October 2001
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|50
|colspan="2"|''The Champion Of Paribanou''
| 4 December 1996
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|51
|colspan="2"|''[[Things We Do for Love (play)|Things We Do For Love]]''
| 29 April 1997<ref name=McCarthy group=nb>Performed end-stage in the McCarthy Auditorium</ref>
| 2 March 1998
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|52
|colspan="2"|''[[Comic Potential (play)|Comic Potential]]''
| 4 June 1998
| 13 October 1999
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|53
|colspan="2"|''[[The Boy Who Fell into a Book]]''
| 4 December 1998
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|54
|rowspan="2"|''[[House & Garden (plays)|House and Garden]]'' <ref group=nb>''[[House & Garden (plays)|House and Garden]]'' are a pair of plays intended to be performed simultaneously as a [[diptych]]</ref>
| ''House''
| 17 June 1999<ref name=McCarthy group=nb/>
| 8 August 2000
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|55
|''Garden''
| 17 June 1999
| 8 August 2000
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|colspan="2"|''Callisto#7'' <ref group=nb name=callisto/>
| 4 December 1999
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|56
|colspan="2"|''[[Virtual Reality (play)|Virtual Reality]]''<ref name=withdrawn group=nb/>
| 8 February 2000<ref name=McCarthy group=nb/>
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|57
|colspan="2"|''[[Whenever (play)|Whenever]]''
| 5 December 2000
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|58
|rowspan="3"|''[[Damsels in Distress (plays)|Damsels in Distress]]''
|''[[GamePlan (play)|GamePlan]]''
| 29 May 2001
| 7 September 2002
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|59
|''[[FlatSpin (play)|FlatSpin]]''
| 3 July 2001
| 7 September 2002
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|60||''[[RolePlay (play)|RolePlay]]''
| 4 September 2001
| 7 September 2002
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|61
|colspan="2"|''[[Snake in the Grass (play)|Snake in the Grass]]''<ref name=bump group=nb/>
| 5 June 2002
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|62
|colspan="2"|''[[The Jollies]]''
| 3 December 2002
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|63
|colspan="2"|''[[Sugar Daddies (play)|Sugar Daddies]]''
| 23 July 2003
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|64
|colspan="2"|''[[Orvin – Champion of Champions]]''
| 8 August 2003
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|65
|colspan="2"|''[[My Sister Sadie]]''
| 2 December 2003
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|66
|colspan="2"|''[[Drowning on Dry Land (play)|Drowning on Dry Land]]''
| 4 May 2004
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|67
|colspan="2"|''[[Private Fears in Public Places]]''
| 17 August 2004
| (5 May 2005)<ref name=PFIPP group=nb>''Private Fears in Public Places'' did not have West End or Broadway performances, but did have a London Premiere at the [[Orange Tree Theatre]] in the London Borough of Richmond, and off-Broadway at [[59E59 Theaters]].</ref>
| (9 June 2005)<ref name=PFIPP group=nb/>
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|68
|colspan="2"|''[[Miss Yesterday]]''
| 2 December 2004
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|69
|colspan="2"|''[[Improbable Fiction]]''
| 31 May 2005
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|70
|colspan="2"|''[[If I Were You (play)|If I Were You]]''
| 17 October 2006
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|71
| ''[[Things That Go Bump (plays)|Things That Go Bump]]''
|''[[Life and Beth]]''<ref name=bump group=nb/>
| 22 July 2008
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|72
|colspan="2"|''[[Awaking Beauty]]''
| 16 December 2008
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|73
|colspan="2"|''[[My Wonderful Day]]''
| 13 October 2009
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|11 November 2009
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|74
|colspan="2"|''[[Life of Riley (play)|Life of Riley]]''
| 16 September 2010
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|75
|colspan="2"|''[[Neighbourhood Watch (Ayckbourn play)|Neighbourhood Watch]]''
| 13 September 2011
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|30 November 2011
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|76
|colspan="2"|''Surprises''
| 17 July 2012
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|77
|colspan=2|''Arrivals & Departures''
| 6 August 2013
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| 29 May 2014
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|78
|colspan=2|''Roundelay''
| 9 September 2014
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| colspan="2" |''Hero's Welcome''
|8 September 2015
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|26 May 2016
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|80
| colspan="2" |''Consuming Passions''
|12 August 2016
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|81
| colspan="2" |''A Brief History of Women''
|5 September 2017
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|1 May 2018
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|82
| colspan="2" |''Better Off Dead''
|11 September 2018
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|83
| colspan="2" |''Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present''
|10 September 2019
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|84
| colspan="2" |''Anno Domino''
|25 May 2020
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|85
| colspan="2" |''The Girl Next Door''
|8 June 2021
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|86
| colspan="2" |''All Lies''
|6 May 2022
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|87
| colspan="2" |''Family Album''
|6 September 2022
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| colspan="2" |''Welcome to the Family''
|16 May 2023
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|89
| colspan="2" |''Constant Companions''
|12 September 2023
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===One-act plays===

Alan Ayckbourn has written eight one-act plays. Five of them (''Mother Figure'', ''Drinking Companion'', ''Between Mouthfuls'', ''Gosforth's Fete'' and ''Widows Might'') were written for ''[[Confusions]]'', first performed in 1974.

The other three one-act plays are:
* ''Countdown'', first performed in 1962, most well known as part of ''[[Mixed Doubles (play)|Mixed Doubles]]'', a set of short one-act plays and monologues contributed by nine different authors.
* ''Ernie's Incredible Illucinations'', written in 1969 for a collection of short plays and intended for performance by schools.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=29 October 2016|website=Alan Ayckbourn's Official Website| title=Ernie's Incredible Illucinations: Background| url=http://ernies.alanayckbourn.net/styled/index.html}}</ref>
* ''A Cut in the Rates'', performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 1984, and filmed for a BBC documentary.

===Books===

* {{cite book|first=Alan|last=Ayckbourn|title=The Crafty Art of Playmaking|publisher= Faber and Faber|location=UK|year=2002|isbn=0-571-21509-2}}
* {{cite book|first=Alan|last=Ayckbourn|title=The Crafty Art of Playmaking|url=https://archive.org/details/craftyartofplaym0000ayck|url-access=registration|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=USA|year=2003|isbn=1-4039-6229-4}}
* Ayckbourn, Alan (2019) ''The Divide''. UK: PS Publishing. ISBN 978-1-786364-47-0.

===Film adaptations of Ayckbourn plays===

Plays adapted as films include:

* ''[[A Chorus of Disapproval (play)]]'' filmed as ''[[A Chorus of Disapproval (film)|A Chorus of Disapproval]]'' (1988 film), directed by [[Michael Winner]];
* ''[[Intimate Exchanges]]'' (play) filmed as ''[[Smoking/No Smoking]]'' (1993 film), directed by [[Alain Resnais]];
* ''[[The Revengers' Comedies]]'' (play) filmed as ''[[Sweet Revenge (1998 film)|The Revengers' Comedies]]'' (also known as ''Sweet Revenge''), directed by [[Malcolm Mowbray]];
* ''[[Private Fears in Public Places]]'' (play) filmed as ''[[Cœurs]]'' (2006 film) directed by [[Alain Resnais]].
* ''[[Life of Riley (play)|Life of Riley]]'' (play) filmed as ''[[Life of Riley (2014 film)|Life of Riley]]'' (2014 film) directed by [[Alain Resnais]].