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LITTLE Britain's David Walliams has conquered the English Channel.

Now he's hoping to conquer the choppy waters of the West End in Harold Pinter's tragi-comic No Man's Land, which opens at the Duke Of York's on Tuesday to January 3 (0870 060 6623).

After meeting on Hampstead Heath, the aging Hirst, a successful but isolated and haunted writer, and Spooner, an impoverished and seedy bore, return to Hirst's house for a late-night session of witty banter, sinister power games and alcohol, watched over by Hirst's creepy henchmen-cum-manservants Briggs and Foster.

This haunting play is part mystery-drama and part homage to the ghosts of the past and the fiction of memory.

It also stars Michael Gambon, David Bradley and Nick Dunning and is directed by the prolific and multi-award-winning Rupert Goold.

Meanwhile, the Old Vic brings Alan Ayckbourn's comic masterpiece The Norman Conquests to the London stage for the first time in more than 30 years.

The three self-contained but inter-connected plays, Round And Round The Garden, Table Manners and Living Together, open on Monday to December 20 (0870 060 6628).

You can see the plays individually or as a trilogy in any order ... or you can book for one of the Trilogy Saturdays, when you can see all three plays on the same day.

The Norman Conquests follows the tumultuous relationships of Norman, his in-laws and the local vet over a summer weekend in a country house.

Throughout the house, the somewhat hapless Norman (Stephen Mangan) tries to woo his wife Ruth (Amelia Bullimore), seduce her younger sister Annie (Jessica Hynes) and charm his brother-in-law's wife Sarah (Amanda Root) in the misguided belief that his destiny in life is to make all women happy. Along the way, he embroils everyone in the action ... with both tragic and comic consequences.

In these award-winning plays, Ayckbourn uses his wit to reveal the secrets and deceptions which bubble beneath the surface of family relationships.

12:00pm Friday 3rd October 2008

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