Arrivals & Departures: Articles
This section contains articles about Arrivals & Departures by Alan Ayckbourn. For other interviews regarding Arrivals & Departures, click on the links in the column below.This short article is an extract from Alan Ayckbourn introduction to the published collection Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 6 in which the playwright gives his brief thoughts on Arrivals & Departures.
Preface to Alan Ayckbourn: Plays 6
But we do, we know all about them. Through a series of brief flashbacks, hers in Act One and his in Act Two, we are able to piece together fragments of their respective pasts. Both acts cover the same time periods with the same events occurring and with only minute alterations in the dialogue. The differences are in the flashbacks, telling two very different stories of people who couldn't be less alike. Indeed, it's an experiment in storytelling. But I felt an interesting one. In some ways, Arrivals and Departures is possibly the closest I've ever been to writing a tragedy.
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