This masterly adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's celebrated trio of plays encompasses a remarkable range of talent - from multi-award-winning producers Verity Lambert and David Susskind to a cast that includes Tom Conti Penelope Keith Richard Briers and Penelope Wilton. Employing a typically inventive device (which Ayckbourn would further explore in 1999 with the simultaneous staging of the two-act House and Garden) the trilogy presents a comically fraught weekend from three different perspectives as family and in-laws gather at the decaying country home of their... bedridden mother the drink flows and hidden enmities intimate secrets and uncomfortable truths emerge through the veneer of jollity and civility. The Norman Conquests was phenomenally successful both in London's West End in 1974 and on Broadway the following year and this Thames production similarly triumphed at the BAFTA Awards in 1977 earning Keith an award for Best Actress and a joint nomination for Best Drama Series for Lambert and director Herbert Wise. [show more]
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An adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's comic trilogy of the same name. Three interconnecting plays recount the events of a single weekend. Annie (Penelope Wilton) lives with her invalid mother. Her brother Reg (Richard Briers) and his anally retentive wife Sarah (Penelope Keith) arrive to take care of mother while Annie gets away for a holiday. However, Sarah discovers that Annie has planned a dirty weekend with brother-in-law Norman (Tom Conti).
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