Bedroom Farce (2000)

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Alan Ayckbourn
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Stephen Joseph Theatre
The Round
Round

21 September 2000
26 September 2000
11 November 2000
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Alan Ayckbourn
Pip Leckenby
Kath Geraghty
John Pattison
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Character
Delia
Ernest
Jan
Nick
Susannah
Trevor
Kate
Malcolm
Dawn Erica Dyson
Annabel Bolton
Charlotte Hall

Actor
Joanna van Gyseghem
Geoffrey Whitehead
Sherry Baines
Paul Raffield
Diana Morrison
Michael Shaw
Katy Secombe
Peter Temple

Why is this play significant?

Alan Ayckbourn's classic comedy - it's not a farce despite the title! - produced for the first time in-the-round as originally intended. The world premiere production in 1975 had to be produced three-sided due to the size of the set and the playwright never got the chance to do it as intended. Also the first - and only - SJT production to be produced in both The Round and The McCarthy, the latter prior to an end-stage UK tour.

Notes

○ Bedroom Farce is, as of writing, unique at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in that the same production was staged in both The Round and end-stage The McCarthy auditoria. The production's initial run was in The Round, but after a short break - and as a prelude to a end-stage tour - it was also performed in The McCarthy.
○ This was promoted as the 25th anniversary production of the play.

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All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.