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Norman Conquests, The (Table Manners; Living Together; Round and Round the Garden)

Norman Conquests, The (Table Manners; Living Together; Round and Round the Garden)

    Author: Alan Ayckbourn

    First Performance: 1973, Scarborough

    Published: 1975

    Genre: Trilogy of coms.; 2 acts each

    Setting: Dining room, sitting room, and garden of a rural Victorian English house, 1970s

    Cast: 3m, 3f

    (1) Table Manners. On a Saturday evening in July, Sarah has come with her husband Reg, an estate agent, to his mother's home to give Reg's sister Annie a weekend off from caring for their (unseen) cantankerous invalid mother. It is assumed that Annie will go off with Tom, a vet who woos her lackadaisically. Norman, Annie's brother-in-law, a scruffy assistant-librarian who dreams of sexual conquests, also arrives. Sarah soon learns that Norman, having had sex with Annie the previous Christmas,...

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