Complete Plays: Lucky Peter's Travels (1957)

Production Details
Title:
Author:
New Play:

Venue:
Location:
Staging:
Lucky Peter's Travels
August Strindberg
No

The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Large lecture room
Round
First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
23 December 1957
23 December 1957
1 January 1958
Company Details
Director:

Stage Manager:
Assistant Stage Manager:
Rodney Wood

John Smith
Marlene Murray
Character
Lucky Peter
All other roles
Actor
Brian Wallace
Clive Goodwin
Celia Hewitt
Prunella Saenger
David Campton
Marlene Murray
Rodney Wood
Notes
○ Lucky Peter's Travels was one of the plays presented during Studio Theatre Ltd's inaugural winter season at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, Scarborough. As the Concert Room was not available, it was performed in the large lecture room on the first floor of the library in an elongated 'round' layout.
○ There was no performance on Christmas Day but Lucky Peter's Travels had 'special' matinees on 26, 27, 28, 30 December and 1 January with its evening performances finishing on 30 December.
○ It was the first of several productions of August Strindberg’s plays to be presented by the company over the decades to come.
○ Lucky Peter’s Travels was the first Christmas play presented Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre intended for a family audience.
○ This is believed to be the first professional in-the-round production of Lucky Peter's Travels in the UK.
○ Stephen Joseph launched the inaugural winter season in 1957, which would run until 1961 and would then not be reinstated until 1974.
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd. Image copyright: Scarborough Theatre Trust