Time Of My Life is a play by Alan Ayckbourn

Alan Ayckbourn

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE is a prolific English playwright. He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their...

. It premiered at the Stephen Joseph Theatre

Stephen Joseph Theatre

The Stephen Joseph Theatre is a theatre in the round in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England that was founded by Stephen Joseph and was the first theatre in the round in Britain....

 in Scarborough on 21 April 1992 then in the West End

West End theatre

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...

 on 3 August 1993.

Plot

It is one of Ayckbourn's time plays, beginning at Laura's 54th birthday party in the present at the Essa da Calvi restaurant and continuing in three time streams - the present with Gerry and Laura, the past showing how Adam and Maureen's relationship began and developed, and the future showing the breakdown of Glynn and Stephanie's marriage.

Dramatis personae

• Gerry Stratton, head of a builders' firm
• Laura Stratton, Gerry's wife
• Glyn Stratton, their eldest son
• Adam Stratton, their younger son
• Stephanie, Glyn's wife
• Maureen, Adam's girlfriend
• Calvinu, Tuto, Aggi, Bengie, Dinka- waiters in the restaurant, all played by the same actor