Fay Weldon
Plays

Helen
Judy
Shirley
Saul
Stephen
Jonathan

The action of the play takes place in a flat shared by the three girls, and elsewhere.

Time - 1952 to 1977

Action Replay was first performed at the Birmingham Repertory Studio Theater in February 1979.

From the cover:

Action Replay is a play for three men and three women. On the surface this is a study of the shifting inter-relationships between three young couples, following the developments through a span of twenty-five years. By making use of an entirely new and ingenious form of construction, however, many more layers of investigation are made than would have been possible with a straightforward narrative technique. Borrowing a presentiment method from television sporting coverage, the action is repeated, sometimes in quite brief scenes, with subtle and often radical differences. To some extent the method resembles that used by Priestley in Dangerous Corner, but whereas in that play the single 'repeat' led up to a single small incident and the momentous consequences which might or might not follow, here many 'repeats' are used to present the characters in different lights and situations in order to examine, with sympathy and a certain ironic humour, a vast part of the whole male/female relationship. The setting can be a simple, bare stage, with a minimum of props and furniture.