The Complete Plays: Squaring The Circle (1958)

Production Details
Title:
Author:
New Play:

Venue:
Location:
Staging:
Squaring The Circle
Valentin Kataev
No

The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Concert Room
Round
Translation:
Original Play:

First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
Basil Ashmore
Kvadratura kruga

29 December 1958
29 December 1958
3 January 1959
Company Details
Director:

Stage Manager:
Assistant Stage Manager:
Rodney Wood

Ann Hughesdon
Ann Summers
Character
Vasya
Ludmilla
Tonya
Abrahm
Emilian
Actor
David Sutton
Faynia Jeffery
Dona Martyn
Alan Ayckbourn
Rodney Wood
Notes
○ Squaring The Circle was presented as part of Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre's 1958 winter season which also included Martine and Ring Of Roses.
○ The Squaring The Circle programme makes mention of the fact Harold Pinter was rehearsing his play The Birthday Party at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre as part of Studio Theatre Ltd’s winter tour.
○ This production of Kataev's play was translated and adapted by Basil Ashmore, specially revised for this production for an adaptation.
○ Ring Of Roses was presented without an interval.
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All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd. Image copyright: Scarborough Theatre Trust