Usher (1962)

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David Campton
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Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre
Concert Room, Scarborough Library
Round

28 June 1962
28 June 1962
29 August 1962

David Campton
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Stage Manager:
Arnold Beck
David Wehner
Character
Roderick Usher
Madeline Usher
Edwin Allen
Lucy
Doctor
Oliver
Finn
Actor
Alan Ayckbourn
Elizabeth Bell
Peter King
Marie Adams
Stanley Page
Arnold Beck
Richard Gill

Why is this play significant?

The first of David Campton's 'gothic' plays and, arguably, his most successful adapting Edgar Allan Poe's classic story The Fall of the House of Usher.

Notes

○ Usher marked the directorial debut of David Campton, the company's first writer-in-residence.
○ This is an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story The Fall Of The House Of Usher.
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.