Comic Potential is a comedy set in the foreseeable future when everything has changed except human nature . . .
Alan Ayckbourn's fifty-third full-length play was first presented at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, in 1998 and received its West End première at the Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, in October 1999.
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As with all Ayckbourn's best plays you are watching a comedy-farce and suddenly find that tragedy comes out of the woodwork and grins at you...Like all serious comedies, "Comic Potential "hurts you with the sheer exuberance of its laughter and liberates you with its seriousness...The master of Scarborough is still on top form. "Sunday Times"
He is a profoundly moral writer and . . . has reached a new synthesis between the comic and the serious-the painfully funny . . . We are a fortunate age to have had our own Moliere. Sir Peter Hall"
As with all Ayckbourn's best plays you are watching a comedy-farce and suddenly find that tragedy comes out of the woodwork and grins at you...Like all serious comedies, Comic Potential hurts you with the sheer exuberance of its laughter and liberates you with its seriousness...The master of Scarborough is still on top form. Sunday Times
He is a profoundly moral writer and . . . has reached a new synthesis between the comic and the serious-the painfully funny . . . We are a fortunate age to have had our own Moliere. Sir Peter Hall
""As with all Ayckbourn's best plays you are watching a comedy-farce and suddenly find that tragedy comes out of the woodwork and grins at you...Like all serious comedies, Comic Potential hurts you with the sheer exuberance of its laughter and liberates you with its seriousness...The master of Scarborough is still on top form." --Sunday Times
"He is a profoundly moral writer and . . . has reached a new synthesis between the comic and the serious-the painfully funny . . . We are a fortunate age to have had our own Moliere." --Sir Peter Hall
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