Relatively Speaking (Ayckbourn play)

Relatively Speaking
Relatively Speaking
Written by	Alan Ayckbourn
Characters	Greg; Ginny; Philip; Sheila
Date premiered	1965
Original language	English
Subject	Love, infidelity, misunderstandings, mistaken identity
Setting	The bed-sitting-room of Ginny's London flat and on the garden patio of Sheila and Philip's home in Buckinghamshire, 1965.
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Ayckbourn chronology
Mr Whatnot; (1963)	The Sparrow; (1967)

Relatively Speaking is a 1965 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn, originally titled Meet My Father, his first major success.^[1]

^ Cody, Gabrielle H., and Evert Sprinchorn, The Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama: A-L - Volume 1 - 2007, page 110, "AYCKBOURN, ALAN Its appeal remains permanent, easily transcending its original time. ... It was for the Library Theatre that Ayckbourn wrote Relatively Speaking (1967), his first play to transfer to London, thus beginning a pattern of ..."