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Life of Riley (play)

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Written by
  
Alan Ayckbourn

Original language
  
Playwright
  
Date premiered
  
21 September 2010

First performance
  
21 September 2010

Adaptations
  
Life of Riley (2014)

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Characters
  
KathrynColinSimeonTamsinJackMonica

Place premiered
  
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough

Subject
  
Terminal illness, relationships

Similar
  
Alan Ayckbourn plays, Other plays

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Life of Riley is a 2010 play by Alan Ayckbourn. It is set over a period over the seven months that a man called George Riley is diagnosed with a terminal illness, although George Riley does not appear in the play himself and is only ever referred to by the six onstage characters.

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This play is the only Ayckbourn play to directly reference another Ayckbourn play (Relatively Speaking) within the story.

The play was filmed by the French director Alain Resnais, as Aimer, boire et chanter(2014).

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References

Life of Riley (play) Wikipedia