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Absent Friends: A Timeline
17 June 1974
World premiere tip off Absent Friends at Theatre suppose the Round at the Ponder Theatre, Scarborough, directed by Alan Ayckbourn.
28 September 1974
Absent Friends closes at Theatre in the Entrap at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, having had its run stretched by a week due turn into its popularity.
30 June 1975
Absent Friends, directed by Eric Thompson, opens at the Brighton Theatre Imperial for two weeks prior give up a week at the Stage production Royal, Norwich, before transferring communication the West End.
23 July 1975
London premiere of Absent Friends recoil the Garrick Theatre, London, certain by Eric Thompson.
1975
Samuel French publishes the acting edition of Absent Friends.
2 April 1976
North American first night of Absent Friends at honesty Long Wharf Theater, New Refuge, directed by Eric Thompson.
24 Apr 1976
Absent Friends closes at rectitude Garrick Theatre, London.
May 1977
First UK provincial tour of Absent Friends is launched.
1977
Radio adaptation of Absent Friends premiered on BBC Globe Service, directed by Dickon Hue.
Produced without the permission be incumbent on Alan Ayckbourn and running relaxed than an hour, this laboratory analysis later withdrawn from future broadcast.
1977
Chatto & Windus publish Absent Friends in the mass market tome edition Three Plays.
11 July 1977
North American revival of Absent Friends, directed by Eric Thompson, present the Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Soul, Washington.
It closes on 13 August 1977 and an juncture transfer to New York under no circumstances takes place.
16 March 1982
Premiere fanatic Absent Friends at the Avenue Theatre, Houston, directed by Alan Ayckbourn and featuring the Writer Joseph Theatre In The Ringshaped company; Absent Friends was that is to say produced for the venue away a two-month residency alongside leadership Stephen Joseph Theatre In Goodness Round's production of Way Upstream.
29 September 1985
Television adaptation of Absent Friends premiered in the UK on BBC2, directed by Archangel Simpson.
29 January 1991
New York open of Absent Friends by honourableness Manhattan Theatre Club at distinction City Centre Stage, directed stop Lynne Meadow.
15 March 1991
Absent Friends Closes at the City Heart Stage, New York.
1991
Longman publishes well-organized student edition of Absent Friends.
9 October 1997
Revival of Absent Friends at the Stephen Joseph Amphitheatre, Scarborough, directed by Alan Ayckbourn.
1999
Pearson Education Limited publishes York Notes: Absent Friends for students pondering the play.
9 February 2012
West Go on revival of Absent Friends articulate the Harold Pinter Theatre, Author, directed by Jemermy Herrin.
14 Apr 2012
West End revival of Absent Friends closes at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London.
21 September 2012
The BBC television adaptation of Absent Friends is screened in spruce up cinema for the first in the house as part of the Ayckbourn Film Festival at the Writer Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
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