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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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional setting
stage location
theatrical setting
appearsInWorkBy Alan Ayckbourn NERFINISHED
associatedWithCharacter Annie NERFINISHED
Norman NERFINISHED
Reg NERFINISHED
Ruth NERFINISHED
Sarah NERFINISHED
Tom NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
createdBy Alan Ayckbourn NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
relatedWork play Living Together
play Round and Round the Garden NERFINISHED
settingIn The Norman Conquests trilogy NERFINISHED
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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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

The Norman Conquests (stage) roomSettingOfPart Table Manners – dining room
subject surface form: The Norman Conquests