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The Norman conquests: A trilogy of plays (original 1973; edition 1979)

by Alan Ayckbourn

Series: The Norman Conquests (omnibus)

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Passions flare and tempers rise when three couples cross paths at a country house one weekend. It all begins with the arrival of Reg and his wife, Sarah. They've come to give Reg's younger sister, Annie, a few days' break from caring for their bedridden mother. However, Annie confides that she's seeing someone, not Tom, the single young vet who's pursuing her, but her brother-in-law, Norman. Appalled, Sarah informs Norman's wife, Ruth, and all hell breaks loose. Ayckbourn's trilogy tells the same weekend story from three different vantage points in the house and garden, and can be watched in any order.… (more)
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Title:The Norman conquests: A trilogy of plays
Authors:Alan Ayckbourn
Info:Grove Press : distributed by Random House (1979), Edition: 1st black cat ed, Paperback, 226 pages
Collections:the 1,001 best books, Drama
Rating:****
Tags:drama

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Norman Conquests: Table Manners; Living Together; Round and Round in the Garden (An Evergreen book) by Alan Ayckbourn (1973)

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Nicely crafted trilogy of plays, the same events viewed from three different vantage points; what seems a pat and somewhat dated ending for the first gets increasingly complicated until the third run through complicates the sexual politics that have gone before. ( )
  adzebill | Aug 7, 2017 |
While this is not the top of Ayckbourn's portfolio, it does crackle with witty dialogue, much of which I didn't appreciate as much when I watched it as when I read it. The usual set up of a dysfunctional family tearing themselves apart over trifles, expanded in typical Ayckbournian fashion to retell the same story in three different locations. In each of the three plays, we see a different slice of a weekend, which means we get to see the story play out in different ways through different eyes. Ayckbourn should be a must read for any aspiring playwright, because he demonstrates so clearly what a difference location makes in a script, and also what a difference point of view can make. ( )
  Devil_llama | Aug 26, 2016 |
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Passions flare and tempers rise when three couples cross paths at a country house one weekend. It all begins with the arrival of Reg and his wife, Sarah. They've come to give Reg's younger sister, Annie, a few days' break from caring for their bedridden mother. However, Annie confides that she's seeing someone, not Tom, the single young vet who's pursuing her, but her brother-in-law, Norman. Appalled, Sarah informs Norman's wife, Ruth, and all hell breaks loose. Ayckbourn's trilogy tells the same weekend story from three different vantage points in the house and garden, and can be watched in any order.

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The story of the same dreadful weekend is illuminated from three different vantage points: the dining room, the sitting room and the garden.
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