Table Manners Summer 2012

The Tamaritans Theatre Company in Plymouth, Devon

Our Summer 2012 Production is:

Author:Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by:- Geoff Strickland
At: Drum Theatre
Dates: June/July 2012
Times: Tuesday - Saturday 7.45pm and Saturday Matinee at 2.45pm
Latest: Auditions 8th February 2012

Table Manners is one of the three plays that make up the trilogy that is "The Norman Conquests". They were written in 1973 by Alan Ayckbourn. The small scale of the drama is typical of Ayckbourn. There are only six characters, namely Norman, his wife Ruth, her brother Reg and his wife Sarah, Ruth's sister Annie, and Tom, Annie's next-door-neighbour. The plays are at times wildly comic, and at times poignant in their portrayals of the relationships between six characters.

Each of the plays depicts the same six characters over the same weekend in a different part of a house. Table Manners is set in the dining room, Living Together in the living room, and Round and Round the Garden in the garden. Each play is self-contained, and they may be watched in any order. Some of the scenes overlap, and on several occasions a character's exit from one play corresponds with an entrance in another.