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Article: AYCKBOURN SLYLY SLIPS HIS POLITICS INTO PLAYS.(What's Happening)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- October 22, 1999
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According to London Times types, playwright Alan Ayckbourn is not political enough. According to New York Times types, Ayckbourn is too political.
``Oh, well, London and New York,'' says Seattle actor/director Jeff Steitzer. ``People in such places tend to take themselves very seriously. And they make sweeping generalizations that might not even be accurate for their own milieu. And such statements certainly are not accurate for Britain and America as a whole.''
Steitzer must hold some sort of record for successful stagings of Ayckbourn works. In Seattle, he has directed nine of Ayckbourn's always ingenious, sometimes grotesque and usually funny ...