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Just Between Ourselves
Written by Alan Ayckbourn
Narrated by Alfred Molina and Full Cast
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About this audiobook
The first of Ayckbourn’s darkly comic masterpieces involves a relentlessly cheerful handyman in a disastrously fractured marriage. Two couples develop an unlikely friendship in this painfully funny portrait of British suburban life.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Gia Carides as Pam
Kenneth Danziger as Dennis
Judy Geeson as Vera
Miriam Margolyes as Marjorie
Alfred Molina as Neil
Directed by Waris Hussein. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Gia Carides as Pam
Kenneth Danziger as Dennis
Judy Geeson as Vera
Miriam Margolyes as Marjorie
Alfred Molina as Neil
Directed by Waris Hussein. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles.
Author
Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Ayckbourn is one of England's most prolific and widely performed living playwrights with over sixty plays in his catalogue. In 1997, he received a knighthood for his services to the theater. His plays include Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests trilogy, and House & Garden. He lives in England.
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