Saskia Butler as a tough woman in
Damsels in Distress
Now in his fifth decade as a playwright, Alan Ayckbourn is one of British theater's senior knights. But the 63-year-old author of such bittersweet comic masterpieces as
House/Garden
and
The Norman Conquests
remains as productive as ever. His latest,
Damsels In Distress
, is a trilogy of self-contained plays that share the same cast but are unrelated save for the Thames-side apartment in which they are set.
A trilogy might seem a daunting task to most authors, but by now Ayckbourn knows his craft inside out. So much so that he has just published a how-to book,
The Crafty Art...
