Norman Conquests: Table Manners; Living Together; Round and Round in the Garden (An Evergreen book)

Norman Conquests: Table Manners; Living Together; Round and Round in the Garden (An Evergreen book)
by Alan Ayckbourn

Norman Conquests: Table Manners; Living Together; Round and Round in the Garden (An Evergreen book)
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Author: Alan Ayckbourn
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-01-22
ISBN: 0802131344
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Grove Press

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Book Review: The scripts for all three fantastic plays.
Summary: 5 Stars

In the late 1970s PBS presented a hilarious trilogy of plays called "The Norman Conquests." I've been trying ever since to find them again. And here they are! This volume contains the scripts for all three of these amazing plays. Their premise: Norman is a real charmer who seduces (not necessarily sexually) everybody he meets. Each of the three plays takes place on a different stage. It's the same story and the same six characters, but seen from what happens only in each room in each play. It's an amazing accomplishment for a writer. This book carries an introduction by Ayckbourn that explains how he did it. And he says the plays are meant to be seen in any order. But I prefer the order given here: "Table Manners" (in the dining room), "Living Together" (the sitting room) and "Round and Round the Garden." If you haven't experienced it, the videos are available now (finally!), as well. The production (the same I saw on PBS) stars Tom Conti as an unforgettable Norman.

Summary of Norman Conquests: Table Manners; Living Together; Round and Round in the Garden (An Evergreen book)

This brilliant comic trilogy details the amorous exploits of Norman, assistant librarian, whose one aim is to make the women of his life happy?these women being, as it happens, three sisters, one of them his wife, who can?t wear contact lenses because ?life with Norman is full of unexpected eye movements.? Each play stands uproariously on its own yet interlocks with the others to form an ingenious Chinese puzzle of successive relations.

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