Taking Steps

Taking Steps
Written byAlan Ayckbourn
CharactersElizabeth
Roland
Mark
Tristram
Leslie
Kitty
Date premiered28 September 1979
Place premieredStephen Joseph Theatre (Westwood site), Scarborough
Original languageEnglish
SubjectRelationships, farce
SettingThree floors of an old house
Official site
Ayckbourn chronology
Sisterly Feelings
(1979)
Suburban Strains
(1980)

Taking Steps is a 1979 farce by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It is set on three floors of an old and reputedly haunted house, with the stage arranged so that the stairs are flat and all three floors are on a single level (hence the play on words in the title).