Neighbourhood Watch (Ayckbourn play)
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Written byAlan Ayckbourn
CharactersDorothy
Rod
Luther
Martin
Gareth
Amy
Magda
Hilda
Rod
Luther
Martin
Gareth
Amy
Magda
Hilda
Date premiered13 September 2011
Place premieredStephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
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| Written by | Alan Ayckbourn | ||
| Characters | Dorothy Rod Luther Martin Gareth Amy Magda Hilda | ||
| Date premiered | 13 September 2011 | ||
| Place premiered | Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough | ||
| Original language | English | ||
| Subject | Taking the law into own hands, authoritarian ideals | ||
| Genre | Black Comedy | ||
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Neighbourhood Watch is a 2011 play by Alan Ayckbourn. The play premiered on 13 September 2011 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.[1]
The play centers around a brother and sister who innocently set up a Neighbourhood Watch group following petty crime from a nearby estate,[2] only for the group to go out of control and become an authoritarian force controlling the lives of the people they are supposed to protect.[3]
