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Onstage in Theatre Too at Theatre Three: Season’s Greetings EXTENDED through December 23

(Dallas, Texas) Theatre Three celebrates the holiday season with Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy, Season’s Greetings, the fourth production in the 2007-2008 Theatre Too Season. Season’s Greetings begins on Friday, November 23, 2007 and will close on Sunday, December 16, 2007. The show has recently been extended to December 23, 2007. “Sorry. We couldn’t wait to open our surprises.” –Belinda in Season’s Greetings. It’s Christmas at Neville and Belinda Bunker’s home! The family reunion, the pile of brightly wrapped presents; the log roaring in the grate; a children’s puppet show and a Boxing Day tea; turkey dinners; paper hats; crackers and streamers; around the base of the gaily decorated tree an extramarital relationship; a couple of stray gunshots in the hall. All the ingredients for a traditional English Christmas. About the Playwright: Alan Ayckbourn Sir Alan Ayckbourn is the most popular and prolific of contemporary English playwrights. Using his position as artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough (a theatre-in-the-round he has headed since 1972) as a launching pad, Ayckbourn has written and produced an astounding seventy full-length plays, most of which have had subsequent productions in London’s West End (the equivalent of Broadway). Ayckbourn had an early career as an actor and stage manager: in 1959 he played Stanley in The Birthday Party in a production directed by its author, Harold Pinter. During that early theatre career he started writing for BBC Television, but quickly focused exclusively on theatre, becoming both a playwright and director. He continues to direct not only his own plays, but works by other playwrights produced at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, as well as directing assignments for the National Theatre of London. The facility of his comedy and his inventiveness were quickly recognized as major gifts. But because he concentrated on lifestyles of the British suburban middle class, some critics were initially dismissive of his plays. Long accustomed to the Noel Coward style comedies with naughty behavior and quips from the upper strata of British society, those dismissive critics had to recalculate their notions of the importance of Ayckbourn’s observations and when they did, they heaped awards on his plays including “best play” awards in ’73, ‘74, '77, ’87, ’89, and ’90. He holds three honorary degrees of Doctor of Letters, and a Knighthood. Though he suffered a stroke in 2006, his recovery has been sufficient to see him return to work to premiere his 70th play at the Stephen Joseph Theatre on 17 October 2006. This June he announced he would retire as artistic director of that theatre in 2008, but will continue to direct premieres and revivals of his work at that theatre. His plays are staples of regional theatres across America. Theatre Three has produced Relatively Speaking, How the Other Half Loves, Absurd Person Singular, Bedroom Farce, Taking Steps, A Woman in Mind, A Small Family Business, Dreams from a Summer House, Comic Potential and now, for the second time, Season’s Greetings.

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