After 83 plays, Alan Ayckbourn publishes his first novel at 80
The Divide, which is set in a dystopian future England, has been adapted from a six-hour, two-part playAt 80, after writing 83 plays and earning seven Evening Standard theatre awards, two Oliviers, one Tony and a knighthood, Alan Ayckbourn will publish his debut novel this month. Set in a dystopian England a century from now, the British playwright and director imagines a world in which a plague has ravaged the popul…