FlatSpin (play)
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Programme cover from original SJT Production
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| Written by | Alan Ayckbourn | ||
| Characters | Rosie Seymour Sam Berryman Annette Sefton-Wilcox Edna Stricken Maurice Whickett Tracy Taylor Tommy Angel |
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| Date premiered | 3 July 2001 | ||
| Place premiered | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough | ||
| Original language | English | ||
| Series | Damsels in Distress | ||
| Subject | Romance, Secret Service | ||
| Genre | Comedy thriller | ||
| Setting | Joanna Rupelford's flat, London Docklands, 2001 | ||
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FlatSpin is a 2001 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, the second in a trilogy of plays called Damsels in Distress (GamePlan and Roleplay being parts one and three.) It is about an actress called Rosie Seymour who accepts a date with a mysterious Sam Berryman, who seems to have mistaken her for a Joanna Rupelford.
See also: Background on Damsels in Distress (plays) page.
FlatSpin, along with GamePlan, was originally intended to be part of a pair of plays, both set in the London Docklands, and both using the same cast of seven. Ayckbourn has a flat in the Docklands, where he observed the neighbours do not know each other well and strange things can happen under their noses. The pair of plays was eventually joined by a third, RolePlay, written as an afterthought, and the trilogy, Damsels in Distress, was shown in the Stephen Joseph Theatre's 2001 season. Like the other two plays, this drew some inspiration from the London Docklands.
Originally intended as a diptych, FlatSpin served as the contrast to the much darker GamePlan. As such, it had some of the lightness associated with Ayckbourn's early comedies.
As part of the Damsels in Distress trilogy, FlatSpin was written to use the same seven actors as the other two plays in the series. In this play, the characters are:
Rosie and Sam are the central characters; the other characters make appearances in one or two scenes.
The entire play is set in flat belonging to a Joanna Rupelford, on the riverside in the London Docklands. As part of Damsels in Distress, the play was written to use the identical set to the other two plays. As with most Ayckbourn plays, it was originally performed in the Round for its original performances at the Stephen Joseph Theatre. However, it was adapted for the Proscenium for subsequent performances elsewhere.
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