The Absurdity of Christmas in Denver
Why not make theatre more like a holiday?
With this thought in mind, British playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn created the “Absurd Person Singular.” The show is presented in the Denver Center Theatre Company , at the Space Theatre.
According to the Denver Post, Ayckbourn, who has been called the world’s most produced playwright behind Shakespeare, once told The Denver Post that theater has gotten too stern an image. “It’s the job of theater to make you laugh and disturb you,” he said. “Ideally, a play should do both.”
The play is set over three Christmas celebrations in the kitchens of three couples: Sidney Hopcroft, an ambitious merchant and his meek wife Jane; architect and adulterer Geoffrey Turner and his depressed wife Eva; and Ronald Brewster-Wright, a banker and his snob of a wife Marion.
In this dark British farce, Ayckbourn hopes that “any couple will see something of themselves in one or more of those three couples.”
The show goes on until December 19. Buy tickets
