Funny, gripping and wrenchingly truthful, these three blackly comic plays slice into the soul of suburbia. Couples - often mismatched, sometimes disorientated - dominate the action. The settings are simple - a kitchen, a bedroom, a party - all familiar terrains where husbands and wives meet, bewildered, puzzled and angry. 'In the hilarious delineation of marital pain there is no one to touch Alan Ayckbourn' - Eric Shorter in the "Daily Telegraph".