Table Manners – dining room

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"Table Manners – dining room" is the primary setting for the play "Table Manners," one of the three interlinked comedies in Alan Ayckbourn’s trilogy "The Norman Conquests."

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Table Manners – dining room canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional setting
stage location
theatrical setting
appearsInWorkBy Alan Ayckbourn
associatedWithCharacter Annie
Norman
Reg
Ruth
Sarah
Tom
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
createdBy Alan Ayckbourn
designedFor proscenium stage productions
genreContext comedy
dark comedy
languageContext English
medium theatre
narrativeDevice allows simultaneous‑time action across the trilogy
narrativeFunction central location for action in Table Manners
partOf play Table Manners
partOfFictionalProperty house shared by the three plays in The Norman Conquests
primarySettingOf play Table Manners
linked to: Table Manners
relatedWork play Living Together
play Round and Round the Garden
settingIn The Norman Conquests trilogy
spatialRelation different area from Round and Round the Garden – garden
different room from Living Together – living room
thematicRole focus for mealtimes and social rituals
site of misunderstandings and conflicts
timeOfCreation 1970s
typicalFeatures chairs
dining table
doors leading to other rooms of the house
usedFor comic situations
family interactions
staging domestic scenes

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The Norman Conquests roomSettingOfPart Table Manners – dining room
subject linked to: The Norman Conquests (stage)