Confusions review " tour de force of ensemble playing
Stephen Joseph, ScarboroughThere is humour and sharp observation in Ayckbourn's collection of one-act plays, but as a whole they fail to connectMany rank Sir Alan Ayckbourn among the UK's top playwrights. I do, too, but didn't always: "Ayckbourn? So suburban middle class; so middle-of-the-road!" What blinded me to the skills I now deeply admire? Partly, prejudice (shameful, but true); partly, this 1974 collection of …