Fool To Yourself (1997)

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Robert Shearman
Yes

Stephen Joseph Theatre
The Round
Round

20 August 1997
26 August 1997
20 September 1997
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Alan Ayckbourn
Michael Holt
Paul Towson
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Character
Robert Hunter
Bob Hunter
Karen Hunter
Carrie Brewer
Dominic Bradshaw
Bridget Bradshaw
Richard Clayton
Harry Teale
Gemma Brooks

Actor
Richard Freeman
Nicholas Haverson
Fiona Hendley
Victoria Gay
Colin Gourley
Dorothy Atkinson

Why is this play significant?

The first full-length professional play of the award-winning writer Robert Shearman, who would have a number of plays produced in Scarborough. Robert would go on to to work on stage and screen, notably Dalek -the award-winning episode of the long-running BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who which reintroduced the famed monsters back to the screen after a break of 17 years. Robert is now best known as an award-winning and acclaimed prose writer.

Notes

○ Fool To Yourself was the playwright Robert Shearman’s first full-length play. Rob had previously had one act plays produced at the theatre - including White Lies - and would go on to have further one act and full-length plays debut in Scarborough.
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.