Intimate Exchanges

Intimate Exchanges
Written by	Alan Ayckbourn
Characters	Celia Teasdale Rowena Coombes Sylvie Bell Josephine Hamilton Irene Pridworthy Toby Teasdale Miles Coombes Lionel Hepplewick Joe Hepplewick Reg Schooner
Date premiered	3 June 1982
Place premiered	Stephen Joseph Theatre (Westwood site), Scarborough
Original language	English
Subject	The consequences of seemingly trivial decisions.[1] Marital discontent.[2]
Genre	Comedy
Setting	An English country village
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Ayckbourn chronology
Making Tracks (1981) It Could Be Any One of Us (1983)

Intimate Exchanges is a play by Alan Ayckbourn. Written between 1982 and 1983 it consists of eight major stories all originating from a single opening scene. As the play progresses the characters make choices, each of which causes the story to go in one of two directions, leading to one of 16 possible endings. The play was nominated for the 1984 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, and a 2006 revival was nominated for the 2008 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play on its transfer to the Brits Off Broadway festival in New York.

In 1993, six of the eight major variations were made into the two films Smoking/No Smoking directed by Alain Resnais.