The Norman Conquests

Table Manners, first of the trilogy, takes place in the dining room with the action centered on meal times: Saturday supper, Sunday breakfast and the evening meal which Sarah prays will be peaceful, civilized and ‘normal’. It isn’t.

The second of Alan Ayckbourn’s three comedies viewing the weekend’s events from different vantage points reveals what happens in the living room.

In the final play of Alan Ayckbourn’s trio of comedies each viewing events from a different vantage point, it is Norman’s first furtive appearance in the garden that suggests that the weekend is going to misfire.