Alan Ayckbourn'un komedisi: Komedinin geleneksel kaidelerini benimseyip, komediyi füturizm, fars ve bilim kurgu ile güncellemek

As a comic tragedian of modern theatre, Alan Ayckbourn has produced eighty-four full-length plays, as well as numerous other playlets, revues, and adaptations. Walking a fine line between comedy and tragedy, Ayckbourn employs various classical devices ranging from satire, parody, stereotypes, and sarcasm to slapstick physical comedy in his works. Masterfully balancing the dark and tragic with the light and comic via his use of mistaken identity, surrealism, repetition, and farce, Ayckbourn manages to provide his audience with a comic catharsis. What is more, he utilizes these comedic devices, and thus their constructive power, as a tool to educate his young audience and provoke thought. Similarly, in his cautionary tales, Ayckbourn manages to combine comedy with science fiction while creating a realistic and grounded future, seeking not only to entertain but also warn his audience against the dangers of modern technology. This thesis aims to illuminate Ayckbourn's embracement of the classical codes of comedy while updating comedy via futurism, farce, and science fiction in the selected works: Henceforward, Communicating Doors, Comic Potential, Whenever, My Sister Sadie, and The Divide.