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Round and Round the Garden

  • Alan Ayckbourn
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573015755

"Superb comic trilogy, Mr. Ayckbourn is the most remarkable British dramatist to have emerged since Harold Pinter."

London Sunday Times

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Exterior Set

  • Accolades:
  • Winner! 2009 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play
    Winner! 2009 Drama Desk Award for Best Revival of a Play
    Winner! 2009 Out Critics Circle Outstanding Revival of a Play
In this play, Sarah's desperate attempts to have a nice, civilized weekend culminate, not surprisingly, in disaster.

Ruth, Norman's wife, is summoned but Norman still contrives to cause havoc involving, finally, all three women. Matters are not helped by such events as the slow thinking Tom mistaking Ruth's intentions during a conversation they have together. 

Eventually the horrific weekend draws to a close. The four visitors depart, but even at the last moment Norman manages, deliberately or not, to wreck all plans by driving his car into Reg's. Back they all troop, now facing having to stay. Norman finds himself spurned by all three women and is left protesting with injured innocence that he only meant to make everyone happy.

Round and Round the Garden is part of The Norman Conquests trilogy.
REVIEWS:

"Superb comic trilogy. Mr. Ayckbourn is the most remarkable British dramatist to have emerged since Harold Pinter."

 London Sunday Times

Premiere Production: Round and Round the Garden was first presented by the Library Theatre Co., Scarborough in June 1973 and subsequently by the Greenwich Theatre Company in May 1974 and in London by Michael Codron at the Globe Theatre in August 1974.

Characters

  • Casting: 3M, 3F

  • NORMAN
    TOM
    SARAH
    ANNIE
    REG
    RUTH

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    In this play, Sarah's desperate attempts to have a nice, civilized weekend culminate, not surprisingly, in disaster.

    Ruth, Norman's wife, is summoned but Norman still contrives to cause havoc involving, finally, all three women. Matters are not helped by such events as the slow thinking Tom mistaking Ruth's intentions during a conversation they have together.

    Eventually the horrific weekend draws to a close. The four visitors depart, but even at the last moment Norman manages, deliberately or not, to wreck all plans by driving his car into Reg's. Back they all troop, now facing having to stay.

    Norman finds himself spurned by all three women and is left protesting with injured innocence that he only meant to make everyone happy.

    Round and Round the Garden is part of The Norman Conquests trilogy.

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