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Round and Round the Garden

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  3w, 3m

Winner! 2009 Tony® Award for Best Revival of a Play
Winner! 2009 Drama Desk Award for Best Revival of a Play
Winner! 2009 Outer Critics Circle Outstanding Revival of a Play

Round and Round the Garden

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 3m
Accolades
Accolades
  • Winner! 2009 Tony® Award for Best Revival of a Play
    Winner! 2009 Drama Desk Award for Best Revival of a Play
    Winner! 2009 Outer Critics Circle Outstanding Revival of a Play

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Summary
In this play, Sarah's desperate attempts to have a nice, civilized week end culminate, not surprisingly, in disaster. Ruth, Norman's wife, is summoned but Norman still contrives to cause havoc involving, finally, all three women. Matters are not helped by such events as the slow thinking Tom mistaking Ruth's intentions during a conversation they have together. Eventually the horrific week end draws to a close. The four visitors depart, but even at the last moment Norman manages, deliberately or not, to wreck all plans by driving his car into Reg's. Back they all troop, now facing having to stay. Norman finds himself spurned by all three women and is left protesting with injured innocence that he only meant to make everyone happy.

Round and Round the Garden is part of The Norman Conquests trilogy.

History
Round and Round the Garden premiered at the Library Theatre Co. in Scarborough in June 1973 under the direction of Eric Thompson.

NORMAN
TOM
SARAH
ANNIE
REG
RUTH

  • Setting The garden of a Victorian vicarage-type house during a weekend in July.

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  • Minimum Fee: $110 per performance

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Alan Ayckbourn

A playwright and theatre director, to date Alan Ayckbourn has written 89 plays – Family Album attracted four-star reviews when it premiered in September 2022 at the Stephen Joseph, where nearly all his plays are first staged.

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