The Time Of My Life

Alan Ayckbourn

Scarborough, August 1993

Comedy: M4 (20s, middle-age, 50s) F3 (20s, 50s). A restaurant.

Gerry Stratton has organised a family dinner with his sons Glyn and Adam at his favourite restaurant to celebrate his wife Laura's fifty-fourth birthday. The occasion suggests a happy domestic scene, but gradually we are made aware of the family skeletons. The present opens up to have Glyn's story move forward in time and Adam's backward, while at the centre Gerry and Laura pick apart their marriage and recall first love.

ISBN 0 573 11444 7