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Table Manners

  • Alan Ayckbourn
  • Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, Contemporary
  • 3M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573015731

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

London Sunday Times

  • Full Length Play
  • Dramatic Comedy

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Interior 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 Outer Critics Circle for Outstanding Revival of a Play
In this play, Annie has arranged to spend an illicit weekend with her sister Ruth's husband Norman, and for this reason, suitably disguised, has asked her elder brother Reg and his wife Sarah to look after their widowed mother and the house. As it happens the seduction, thought or planned, by each of the six characters never takes place either.

Table Manners 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: Table Manners 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.
  • Casting: 3M, 3F

  • NORMAN
    TOM
    SARAH
    ANNIE
    REG
    RUTH
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    In this play, Annie has arranged to spend an illicit weekend with her sister Ruth's husband Norman, and for this reason, suitably disguised, has asked her elder brother Reg and his wife Sarah to look after their widowed mother and the house.

    As it happens the seduction, thought or planned, by each of the six characters never takes place either.

    Table Manners is part of The Norman Conquests trilogy.

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