Henceforward…: Articles by Alan Ayckbourn
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Inspirations
Articles by Alan Ayckbourn
○ Preface to Plays 1○ Origins Of Life
○ Jerome
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○ Henceforward… & BackWell, several things. A fascination with the way the creative process can so often eclipse real life.
It is all too common for artists to plunder real life emotions, to re-use them to their own ends - sometimes at the expense of genuine emotion.
I thought it would be interesting to write a play about a man who whilst searching desperately, personally and professionally, for real love fails to recognise it from his own family.
It is a play about the creative process. And how dangerous it can be.
It's a play about the future, of course. Of one way urban life could develop (some would say in certain areas, has already developed).
It's a play about how we manipulate, or try to manipulate those we choose to live with. In this case how Jerome tries to make the Zoë robot into a perfect woman - but how unsatisfactory the result from the living breathing Zoë, faults and all.
Of our acceptance of sexual stereotypes.
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