Better Off Dead: Further Reading

This page contains details of publications & articles relating to Better Off Dead. The information is for research & the website cannot provide copies of the articles listed.

Published Editions

Better Off Dead (click here to buy)
Samuel French, 2020, ISBN 978-0573116711

Reference Books

Simon Murgatroyd: Unseen Ayckbourn
(Lulu Books, 2023, ISBN 9781447761723)

Articles

Alan Ayckbourn: From Farce To Fierce Dystopian Epic
Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 22 July 2017
Why Ayckbourn Is Top Of His Game
Nick Ahad, Yorkshire Post 27 August 2018
Better Off Dead
The Press, 1 September 2018
Alan Ayckbourn contemplates dying art of writing in 82nd play Better Off Dead
Charles Hutchinson, The Press, 13 September 2018
Christopher's Return Journey
Sue Wilkinson, The Scarborough News, 27 September 2018

Reviews: World Premiere (2018)

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James Ballands, British Theatre Guide, 14 September 2018
Alan Ayckbourn Whips Up Reassuring Laughs In This Droll Portrait Of Looming Mortality
Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph, 12 September 2018
Ayckbourn's Washed-Up Writer Satire Backfires
Catherine Love, The Guardian, 12 September 2018
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Alan Hulme, Manchester Theatre Awards, 16 September 2018
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Wendy Pratt, Northern Soul, 14 September 2018
An Elegy For The Written Off
Clare Brennan, The Observer, 16 September 2018
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Eve Luddington, On: Yorkshire Magazine, 12 September 2018
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Charles Hutchinson, The Press, 21 September 2018
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Ron Simpson, The Reviews Hub, 13 September 2018
Ayckbourn plays with idea of life and death with a killer's instinct
Sue Wilkinson, The Scarborough News, 13 September 2018
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Will Ramsey, The Stage, 17 September 2018
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Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 13 September 2018
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Nick Ahad, Yorkshire Post, 14 September 2018
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Andrew Liddle, Yorkshire Times, 13 September 2018

All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.