(l to r) Dayle Ballentine, Shelley Brown, Glen Doyle, Glenn Ryan, Jon Nuquist and Melissa Sine
Table
Manners is the first of three plays in Alan
Ayckbourn's trilogy, The Norman
Conquests.
The story centers around
an extended family of two sisters and an older brother, their spouses, and a
neighbor named Tom.
Sarah can't get much cooperation about dinner, Norman is incorrigible,
Annie is caught between Tom and a fling, mum is upstairs demanding attention...
and there aren't six proper chairs for the dining table! It's a comedy... it's a satire... it's a Brit-com... it's a masterpiece!