"Three new plays with a twist - GamePlan, FlatSpin, RolePlay, collectively known as Damsels in Distress - were written to be performed by the same cast, using the same set but are otherwise entirely separate."--Back cover.

Each play takes place during the same weekend in the same household but in different rooms, and, although the plays are independent of each other, all center around the same character, Norman.

Set in a near dystopian future, a dominatrix flees for her life through a hotel communicating door only to find herself 20 years in the past as a result of which she is stalked by a psychopath in the present and the past. The opportunity to alter time for the better puts the lives of three women at stake. 'Communicating Doors' premiered in February 1994 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough.

"In this "bracing comedy...unflinching in its misanthropy" (David Richards, The New York Times), Alan Ayckbourn is a modern-day Diogenes, holding up a lantern to contemporary society, searching for an honest man. The beam falls on Jack McCracken as he confidently steps in to improve the faltering family furniture business, Ayres & Graces. His family applauds good old Jack as he extols the virtue of basic trust while they're scheming to protect the...

A 1972 play by Alan Ayckbourn. Divided into three acts, it documents the changing fortunes of three married couples. Each act takes place at a Christmas celebration at one of the couples' homes on successive Christmas Eves.