Table Manners (2018)
by Alan Ayckbourn
directed by Tricia A. Hobbs
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Directed by Tricia A. Hobbs
Scenic Designer: Tricia A. Hobbs
Lighting Designer: Scout Hough
Costume Designer: Claire Bolduc
Properties Designer: Belinda Hobbs
Fight Director: Angela Bonacasa
Sound Designer: Katie Guzzi
Light Board Operator: Matteah Hamm
Backstage Running Crew: Mary Clark
Stage Manager: Kristy Eaton
Publicity: Mark Bilyk
Publicity: Erica VeazeyPhotos by Christopher Goetting
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Angela Bonacasa as Annie
Tellis Coolong as Reg
Holly Costar as Sarah
Tyler Costigan as Norman
Jenny Hancock as Ruth
Jake Sherburne as Tom -
The first of three plays in playwright Alan Ayckbourn’s The Norman Conquests trilogy, Table Manners takes place around the dining room table in the family home. Annie still lives at home with her elderly, invalid mother, but she is a woman with a plan: avoid her sort-of boyfriend Tom and dash out of town with her sister’s husband, the irascible but charming Norman. She asks her unsuspecting elder brother Reg and his wife Sarah to look after their widowed mother and the house while she is away, but once they arrive, her plan is soon discovered. Once Tom arrives, followed by Norman, and finally Norman’s wife Ruth, the stage is set for a dysfunctional family weekend. Too much tension, too much alcohol, and too little food make for a combustible and hysterical mix.
Table Manners was performed at the Cyrus Pavilion Theatre on the University of Maine campus in Orono, ME.
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