The Old Globe has announced it is staging the U.S. premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s new comedy, Life of Riley.
Directed by Richard Seer, Life of Riley runs in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of The Old Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center, with previews starting April 30 and opening night May 5.
Alan Ayckbourn, one of the most successful living playwrights, was recently awarded the U.K.’s Critics’ Circle Annual Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts and a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theater. He is also The Old Globe’s most-produced living playwright. Globe audiences have enjoyed 10 of Ayckbourn’s plays since 1978, including the U.S. premieres of Mr. A’s Amazing Maze Plays and Intimate Exchanges.
With Life of Riley (Ayckbourn’s 74th play) the playwright looks backwards, forwards and, now and then, sideways with wry comic affection on the lives we lived or might have lived. George Riley’s closest friends discover that he has just a few months to live and they each deal with the news in their own very surprising way. George has deeply affected each of their lives, and he is now plotting one last final farewell, which could upset all of their futures.
Tickets can be purchased online at TheOldGlobe.org, by phone at 619-23-GLOBE or by visiting the box office at 1363 Old Globe Way in Balboa Park.
