A Chorus Of Disapproval (1984)

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Alan Ayckbourn
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Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round
Main house (Round)
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2 May 1984
2 May 1984
5 September 1984
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Alan Ayckbourn
Paul Todd
Francis Lynch
Edward Lipscomb
Edna Davis

Baz Edmonds
Eric Lumsden
Maggie Nottage
Jackie Hurd
Drew Scott
Kate Woodward
Character
Guy Jones
Dafydd ap Llewellyn
Hannah ap Llewellyn
Jarvis Huntley-Pike
Rebecca Huntley-Pike
Ian Hubbard
Fay Hubbard
Bridget Baines
Ted Washbrook
Enid Washbrook
Crispin Usher
Linda Washbrook
Mr Ames
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Lennox Greaves
Russell Dixon
Alwyne Taylor
Alan Thompson
Heather Stoney
Mark Jax
Lesley Meade
Jane Hollowood
Robert Cotton
Dorcas Jones
Daniel Flynn
Caroline Webster
Paul Todd

Why is this play significant?

Alan Ayckbourn's famed play about an amateur operatic company and its latest member. The first theatre in the round in Scarborough play to utilise a revolve (actually a double revolve) and it's rarely commented on that one of Alan Ayckbourn's most popular works has only ever been performed as it was originally written - with a revolve - this one time. It would become the first feature film to be adapted from an Ayckbourn play when Michael Winner came to Scarborough and did his utmost best to ruin the play. But we don't talk about that….

Notes

○ A Chorus Of Disapproval was dedicated to Tom Laughton, brother of the actor Charles Laughton, who was a long-standing and passionate supporter of the Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round. Prior to his death on 14 March 1984 (aged 80), he was Chairman of Scarborough Theatre Trust.
○ A Chorus Of Disapproval revolves around Pendon Amateur Light Operatic Society's production of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera and extracts from songs from this piece are performed during the play.

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All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.