Body Language (play)

{{Short description|1990 play by Alan Ayckbourn}}

{{About|the Alan Ayckbourn play||Body language (disambiguation)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox play

|name = Body Language

|image = body-language-ayckbourn.jpg

|writer = Alan Ayckbourn

|characters = Hravic Zyergefoovc
Freya Roope
Benjamin Cooper
Ronnie Weston
Angie Dell
Derek Short
Jo Knapton
Mal Bennet

|premiere = 21 May 1990

|place = Stephen Joseph Theatre (Westwood site), Scarborough

|orig_lang = English

|subject = Body image

|web = http://bodylanguage.alanayckbourn.net/

|chronology = Ayckbourn

|last_play = Invisible Friends
(1989)

|next_play = This Is Where We Came In
(1990)

}}

Body Language is a 1990 play by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn. It is about two women, one thin and one fat, who have their bodies swapped as a result of a botched operation.

References

  • [http://bodylanguage.alanayckbourn.net/ Body Language on official Ayckbourn site]
  • Allen, Paul (2004) A Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn Plays Faber & Faber {{ISBN|0-571-21492-4}}
  • {{cite news

| author = Andrew Gans

| title = Ayckbourn's Body Language to Make U.S. Debut at NJ Theatre

| work = Playbill

| date = 2003-09-26

| url = http://web.playbill.com/news/article/81849.html

| accessdate = 2008-02-01

| url-status = dead

| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20040128034014/http://web.playbill.com/news/article/81849.html

| archivedate = 2004-01-28

}}

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Category:Plays by Alan Ayckbourn

Category:1990 plays

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