Improbable Fiction by Alan Ayckbourn

The play takes its title from a line in that play of reversals and wish fulfilment, Twelfth Night.  In Improbable Fiction, Ayckbourn has devised a plot as insanely topsy-turvy as Shakespeare’s.

Improbable Fiction is Alan Ayckbourn’s 69th play, wherein everyone in the Pendon Writers’ Circle, a self-help group for the creatively stalled and artistically deluded, is having collective writers’ block. However, the presence of a rather ordinary young girl unleashes their imaginations – with surprising results!

Improbable Fiction sends up Dorothy L Sayers, Jane Austen and The X-Files – with a selection of spoof sci-fi characters, a detective that any crime writer would be proud to disown, a damsel in distress, and the abduction of his mother by aliens, the story lines overlap and interweave around a bemused Arnold.

Interested in acting in this production?

Come to Wilmslow Green Room to look at scripts, meet the season directors and take part in informal readings. All welcome. Tuesday 18 February 7:30pm.