Ah, Norman!

I spent most of yesterday at the Circle in the Square Theater watching the three separate plays that make-up Alan Ayckbourn’s  The Norman Conquests trilogy.  I’d seen the original many years ago on television, had seen another of his plays many years ago (of which I only recall that the audience looked down on a couple of rooms as the actors moved between them), and the reviews of this revival just made me want to see it.

It was wonderful.  In his rave New York Times review,  Ben Brantley wrote t