Surprises " review
Stephen Joseph, ScarboroughFor his 76th play, Alan Ayckbourn transports his audience to a decades-distant future where children are rare, centenarians are common and time-travel is possible. Human-looking androids are just beginning to interact with people on an emotional level, to their mutual confusion. One of these new models, Jan (out-of-this-world Richard Stacey), puzzles over his hard-shelled, soft-centred lawy…