12 & 13 July at the Medway Centre, Huntingdon
Table Manners is Alan Ayckbourn’s very popular comedy from 1973, which
formed the first play in the trilogy The Norman Conquests. Penelope Keith, Tom
Courtenay, Felicity Kendal and Michael Gambon were in the cast of the first West
End production.
Norman (Bob Pugh) has persuaded his sister-in-law Annie (Sharon Reed) to go
away with him for the weekend. Annie looks after her invalid mother, and has
asked her brother Reg (Tony Burrin) and his wife Sarah (Christine Marriott) to
take over while she’s away. But when Sarah realises this is an illicit weekend,
she puts her foot down. Norman arrives, followed by his wife, Ruth (Jeanette
Brown). How will Ruth react? Then there’s Tom (Mark Hebert), the neighbour who
spends an awful lot of time in the house. Will he be spurred into declaring love
for Annie? And does Annie want him anyway?
Table Manners will be directed by Michael Black and produced by John
Morgan. It’ll be performed in the Medway Centre, Huntingdon, on Friday and
Saturday 12 and 13 July, at 7.30 pm.
The Club has been bringing drama to Huntingdon since 1944. The Commemoration
Hall has been our regular venue since 1960, but from time to time we’ve
performed in other places, including RAF Alconbury, the Women’s Institute hall
in Warboys, Brampton Park Theatre, the BRJ Club – and the Medway Centre. Our
most recent performance at the Medway was of Agatha Christie’s A Murder is
Announced, which we put on in 2007.
New: NODA review
here.
Quiz answers here.
