Archiving Ayckbourn: The Norman Conquests

Archiving Ayckbourn is a regular feature presenting a look at every Alan Ayckbourn play through an object held in the Ayckbourn Archive. Each week, the feature will chronologically move through the play canon highlighting an object, article, photograph or other archival object offering an insight into the play, the playwright or moments of significance.

The Norman Conquests (1973)
The Norman Conquests is one of the most significant creations in the Ayckbourn canon. Voted one of the 20th century’s most important plays by the National Theatre, it remains an exceptionally popular Ayckbourn play.
The origins of the trilogy have been well-documented with Alan Ayckbourn flippantly telling a journalist in 1972 his next project would be a trilogy – only to forget about the comment until the journalist published the story the next year, much to the consternation of the…

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