Table Manners

Alan Ayckbourn’s British comedy returns to the Kay Meek Centre
for one night only

Thursday, July 2 @ 8 pm

Box Office:  604-913-3634

After winning Best Production at the recent Theatre BC North Shore Zone Festival of Plays, Table Manners will return to the Kay Meek Centre - Main Stage - on Thursday, July 2 for a repeat performance.

Theatre West Van’s production has “wonderful comic timing and pacing”, and is a definite audience-pleaser. Don’t miss the chance to see this fast-paced, elegant British comedy by one of the world’s funniest and most prolific playwrights, Alan Ayckbourn.

Table Manners is part of the delightful comic trilogy The Norman Conquests, which has been ingeniously structured to allow each play to be enjoyed independently.

Annie, the Cinderella of the family, still lives in the old family house and takes care of mother. Her brother Reg and his wife Sarah come for the weekend so that Annie can go away for a rest.  They think she is going with Tom, the local vet with whom she has had a friendly relationship for some years, but in fact it is Norman, her sister Ruth’s husband, that she is planning to meet. All does not go as planned. Ruth is summoned and the combination of too little food, too much alcohol and too many secrets creates a hilarious and fascinating puzzle. Ayckbourn reveals the frustration and disappointments which bubble beneath the surface of a family’s relationships and brings to light their thoughts on sex, marriage, love and loneliness.

Directed by Alison Jopson.  Starring Sarah Arnold, Simon Drake, Heather Evens, Thomas Saunders, Kevin Scott and Rosalyn Winther,

Table Manners will now go on to represent the North Shore at Theatre BC’s Annual Provincial Drama Festival, this year to be held in Maple Ridge from July 3-11, performing on Saturday, July 4 at 12 noon.