Talking Scarlet

By Alan Ayckbourn

Starring Anna Brecon (Emmerdale), Marcus Hutton (Brookside) and David Callister (The Bill).

This hilarious play follows six characters as they spend a weekend together in a country house. Among them is assistant librarian Norman, whose career-minded wife Ruth has little need for him – and Norman desperately needs to be needed. When he tries to bring happiness to the lives of the three women he finds his efforts yield varying results.

Table Manners forms part of a trilogy of plays, The Norman Conquests. Written in 1973, each play is a self-contained work depicting the events of a single weekend from the perspective of different locations in the house.

Acclaimed theatre company Talking Scarlet brings this classic text to stage following visits to the Opera House with Devil at Midnight and Double Death.