The Complete Plays: Fancy Meeting You (1973)

Production Details
Title:
Author:
New Play:

Venue:
Location:
Staging:
Fancy Meeting You
Alan Ayckbourn
Yes

The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Concert Room
Round
Revised Title (from 1974):

First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
Table Manners

18 June 1973
18 June 1973
13 September 1973
Company Details
Director:

Stage Manager:
Deputy Stage Manager:
Assistant Stage Manager:
Alan Ayckbourn

David Price
Allan Took
Robert Benfield
Character
Reg
Sarah, his wife
Ruth, Reg's sister
Norman, her husband
Annie, Reg & Ruth's sister
Tom
Actor
Stanley Page
Alex Marshall
Janet Dale
Christopher Godwin
Rosalind Adams
Ronald Herdman
Notes
○ Fancy Meeting You is - alongside Make Yourself At Home and Round and Round the Garden - a trilogy of plays which later became known as The Norman Conquests. When originally produced in Scarborough in 1973, there was no over-arching name for the plays.
○ The title of Fancy Meeting You was altered to Table Manners for the play's London premiere in 1974.
Links
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd. Image copyright: Scarborough Theatre Trust