Norman the Conqueror

English comedy
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Director: Ingomar Vihmar
Author: Alan Ayckbourn
Set designer: Liina Unt
Translators: Enn-Eerik Loorumm and Anne Lange
Musical director: Ingomar Vihmar
Lighting designer: Margus Vaigur

Cast: Jan Uuspõld (guest performer), Fatme Helge Leevald, Kleer Maibaum, Karin Tammaru, Priit Loog, Nils Mattias Steinberg

It is a warm summer evening at a country house in England. Annie, tired of caring for her bedridden mother and of her neighbour, the simple-minded vet Tom, failing to respond to her advances, has decided to spend the weekend in a secluded hotel room somewhere. As soon becomes clear, she will not be alone: she plans a little adventure with her brother-in-law, Norman. Her brother Reg and sister-in-law Sarah have agreed to look after their mother in the meantime, and everything seems to be going according to plan. But then Norman unexpectedly turns up, overturning carefully concealed plans. To everyone else’s dismay, he also intends to join every breakfast, lunch and dinner taking place over the weekend.

Norman is a character with appalling manners and unpredictable behaviour who constantly spoils everyone’s mood; no one escapes his sharp tongue. He would be easy to hate, but Norman has something the other men in the group do not: an inexplicable, irresistible effect on women, making reason fall silent and inviting them to give themselves over without restraint. Things become no easier when Norman’s wife Ruth arrives. Despite her poor eyesight, she seems perfectly able to spot everyone else’s faults—and may be even more skilled at delivering insults than Norman himself…