Garden, Living Room, Dining Room: the three centrepieces of Middle
England's social arena and the three backdrops in Alan Ayckbourn's incisive
and scathingly funny trilogy. Starring Tom Conti, Richard Briers & Penelope
Keith, these renowned interconnected plays epitomise and riotously send up the
cosseted values of Britain in the late seventies.
Eavesdropping on a series of events entwining the same six characters between
Saturday afternoon and Monday morning, the simple turn of events in Table
Manners, Living Together and Round and Round the Garden mirror the emotional
states of the characters. Norman's life is taken apart layer by layer and his
affairs of the heart (and of the extra-marital kind) are laid bare for all
to see.