Table Manners, Alan Ayckbourn
Table Manners, Alan Ayckbourn
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Table Manners

Author: Alan Ayckbourn

Narrator: Martin Jarvis, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2009


Synopsis

England’s famous seducer of other men’s wives lays siege to his sister-in-law in the first “battle” of Ayckbourn’s celebrated trilogy The Norman Conquests. In Table Manners, the action occurs in the dining room of Mother’s house, where a conventional middle-class family is attempting to have a pleasant country weekend. But they are no match for Norman, the bane of the family, who horrifies everyone by doing exactly as he likes.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Rosalind Ayres as Sarah
Kenneth Danziger as Reg
Martin Jarvis as Norman
Jane Leeves as Annie
Christopher Neame as Tom
Carolyn Seymour as Ruth.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anton

Hoewel het hier om een komedie gaat en je met humor geëntertaind wordt, is het mensbeeld van Ayckbourn erg somber. Met de jaren ben ik meer en meer geneigd om hem gelijk te geven: niet erg anders dan bij Tsjechov zijn mensen gefrustreerd maar doen ze er niks aan, integendeel, ze blijven in dezelfde......more

Goodreads review by Matt

This play is humor at its finest. I can't wait to read the other two plays that make up The Norman Conquests.......more

Goodreads review by Neil

This is the first of the Norman Conquests trilogy, which are three overlapping plays with the same six characters. Two are married couples (mostly unhappily so, in different ways, but not entirely) and the third a pair who haven't found the ability to admit that they want to be together. One member......more

Goodreads review by Sophie

Witty but I wouldn’t say it needs a trilogy......more