The Christmas That Nearly Wasn't (1974)

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Janet Dale
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Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre
Lecture Room, Scarborough Library
Three-sided

23 December 1974
23 December 1974
11 January 1975

Janet Dale
Helga Wood
Christine Welch
Paul Todd
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David Millard
Kevin Wood
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Roles are not known
Actor
Stephen Mallatratt
Eileen O’Brien
Christopher Godwin
Carl Forgione
Stuart Doughty
Ray Jewers
Kevin Wood
Paul Webster
Bob Eaton
Janet Dale

Why is this play significant?

The first of the company's true Christmas plays and to which the current Christmas tradition of the company can be traced back to.

Notes

○ The Christmas That Nearly Wasn't was the first children's Christmas play to be presented at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, since Alan Ayckbourn's Dad's Tale in 1960.
○ During the 1974 and 1975 winter seasons at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, the Library Committee did not make the venue's Concert Room available; this room being where Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre had been based since 1955. In its place, a smaller room on the same floor - the Lecture Room - was offered but which could not incorporate theatre-in-the-round with productions performed three-sided (thrust).
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.