Private Fears In Public Places (2004)

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Alan Ayckbourn
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Stephen Joseph Theatre
The Round
Round

12 August 2004
17 August 2004
4 September 2004
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Alan Ayckbourn
Pip Leckenby
Mick Hughes
Christine Wall
John Pattison
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Character
Nicola
Stewart
Dan
Ambrose
Charlotte
Imogen
Fleur Linden Beeley
Emily Thurlby
Mary Hely

Actor
Melanie Gutteridge
Paul Kemp
Stephen Beckett
Adrian McLoughlin
Billie-Claire-Wright
Sarah Moyle

Why is this play significant?

Arguably the most significant of Alan Ayckbourn's plays of the 2000s. A later addition to the summer season, Private Fears in Public Places would famously become the first SJT production to transfer to the Brits Off Broadway festival at the 59E59 Theatres in New York where it would be an extraordinary success garnering some of the best reviews of Alan Ayckbourn's career.

Notes

○ Private Fears In Public Places was a late addition to the Stephen Joseph Theatre's summer 2014 schedule. Whilst rehearsing Drowning On Dry Land, Alan Ayckbourn announced he'd been inspired by the company to write a new play, which was slotted into the summer schedule for a three week run before returning to the theatre in 2005 prior to a London and New York tour.
○ Private Fears In Public Places is considered to be the 250th new production to be premiered by the company since it was founded in 1955 at the Library Theatre, Scarborough.

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All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.