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The Time of My Life


By Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by DC Wright

Dates: September 30 - October 3, 2009
Place: Horrabin Theatre
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Price: Public $14.00; Senior/WIU Student: $12.00
Ticket Contact: Hainline Box Office 309.298.2900 (NOON to 5:00 PM)

Clever and stylish, this play charts the decline and fall of a successful Stratton family business. The play explores the complicated relationships of the Stratton family and reveals both the dark and the positive sides of human behavior, examining trust, familial loyalty, and laying bare the true character of each individual family member. The humor is simultaneously tough and tender and wrapped in Ayckbourn's rich, funny and thoroughly human worldview. Although not a comedy, Ayckbourn’s comic brilliance frequently shines through.

Gerry Stratton has organized a small family dinner with his sons Glyn and Adam at his favorite restraunt to celebrate his wife Laura's fifty-fourth birthday. Glyn is with his long-suffering wife Stephanie, and their marriage looks to be on firmer ground than it was once; Adams has brought along his new girlfriend, Maureen, an outrageous hairdresser, and they are both eager to impress. The occasion suggests a happy domestic scene, but gradually we are made aware of the family skeletons. We discover that Glyn's faithflesness knows no bounds, tnat the family transport business has been hit by the recession, and that Laura has been unfaithful to her husband. The present opens up to have Glyn's storymove forward in time and Adam's backward, while at the center Gerry and Laura pick apart their marriage and recallfirst love.
"...funny, very funny, and not at all funny; quintessentially Ayckbourn." The Times

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Call the Department of Theatre and Dance 309.298.1543