Towards the end of Arrivals & Departures, Alan Ayckbourn’s seventy-seventh play (the author is seventy-five), the military handler Ez (Elizabeth Boag) tells Barry (Kim Wall), the man she is handling, that they have nothing in common. “We’ll never know now, will we?” Barry asks, a line that epitomizes Mr. Ayckbourn’s central concern. In the main action of Arrivals […]
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