Los Angeles Times
The play is the thing this year. There have been a number of well-made, full-cast productions to hit the market in 1999, and some of the best are by L.A. Theatre Works. The company recently acquired the right to release British playwright Alan Ayckbourn's bitingly humorous trilogy "The Norman Conquests." Each play, TABLE MANNERS, LIVING TOGETHER and ROUND AND ROUND THE GARDEN is performed with wit and enthusiasm by a lively cast of British actors.

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A superb cast vigorously essays the third in Alan Ayckbourn's intricately plotted NORMAN CONQUESTS (1974), a comic trilogy of stage plays about a suburban British Lothario. Each one depicts roughly the same events, but from different points of view. This cast has also recorded the first two installments. This is the best of the three and, because of subject matter more suited to tragedy than to humor, the most difficult to pull off. Flawlessly directed, the production suffers slightly from the necessity of combining aspects of studio-based and live-audience production. It just doesn't work. The uncredited engineer, however, has done a fine job of thrusting the performers dynamically into the foreground and capturing all their sparkle. Y.R. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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Part of the delightful comic trilogy from one of England's most popular playwrights, The Norman Conquests revolves around a lascivious librarian with designs on three different women, all family members. This third and last installment finds everyone circling around in the garden in pursuit of love, sex, and a cranky cat. The frustrated but irrepressible Norman is still valiantly pursuing three different women, leaving the audience to wonder whether he will be able to keep them apart long enough to seduce them all.

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