Forty Years On (1996)

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Alan Bennett
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Stephen Joseph Theatre
The McCarthy
End-stage

10 May 1996
16 May 1996
15 June 1996
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Robin Herford
Kate Valentine
John Pattison
Jason Taylor
Jan Bee Brown
Sheila Carter

Philip Rees
Vivianne Baxter
Gemma Brooks
Character
Headmaster
Franklin
Tempest
Matron
Miss Nisbett
Head Boy / Christopher / Gerald / Sandy
Skinner / Ottoline Morrell
Charteris
Tredgold / Spooner
Foster
Tupper / Ottoline Morrell
Wimpenny / Ledbetter
Wigglesworth / Boy in bed

Crabtree / Cartwright
Lord

Rumbold
McIlwaine / Jarvis
Actor
Peter Laird
Terence Booth
Harry Gostelow
Ann Penfold
Antonia Pemberton
Danny Spring

John Hasler
Oliver Herford
Robert Hastie
Sam Taylor / Drew Ellis
Jonathan Rhodes / Ben Wilson
Tom Granger / Paul Clark
James Stephenson / Alex Parker
Tom Mack / Sean Slinger
Brian McCain / Richard Brooke
Hugh Faith / Andrew Lundie
Nicholas Mackaness / Simon Ryley

Why is this play significant?

Forty Years On was the first production to be staged in the end-stage auditorium, The McCarthy. Alan Ayckbourn's original intention was both The Round and The McCarthy would be producing work simultaneously throughout the idea. Sadly, this never proved financially viable and The McCarthy became better known for films and visiting productions than for home-grown productions.

Notes

○ Forty Years On featured two companies for the pupils of Albion House school due to their ages.
○ This was the inaugural production in the Stephen Joseph Theatre's McCarthy auditorium.
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.