The Complete Plays: The Lunatic View - Getting And Spending (1957)
Production Details
Title:
Author:
New Play:
Venue:
Location:
Staging:
Author:
New Play:
Venue:
Location:
Staging:
Getting and Spending
David Campton
No
The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Large lecture room
Round
David Campton
No
The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Large lecture room
Round
First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
30 December 1957
30 December 1957
4 January 1958
30 December 1957
4 January 1958
Company Details
Director:
Stage Manager:
Assistant Stage Manager:
Stage Manager:
Assistant Stage Manager:
Rodney Wood
John Smith
Marlene Murray
John Smith
Marlene Murray
Character
Radio Announcer
Evelyn
Bobby
Workman
Midwife
Radio Announcer
Evelyn
Bobby
Workman
Midwife
Actor
Heath Block (Stephen Joseph)
Brian Wallace
Prunella Saenger
Clive Goodwin
Celia Hewitt
Heath Block (Stephen Joseph)
Brian Wallace
Prunella Saenger
Clive Goodwin
Celia Hewitt
Notes
○ The Lunatic View 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.
○ The Lunatic View was the first play presented by the Studio Theatre Ltd company to have been written specifically for in-the-round performance.
○ The Lunatic View consisted of four one act plays by David Campton: Memento Mori, A Smell of Burning, Getting & Spending and Then….
○ Although The Lunatic View is not credited as a world premiere at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, this was the world premiere production having opened in London prior to the winter season at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, Scarborough. The Lunatic View originally ran from 25 November - 7 December 1957 at the Mahatma Gandhi Assembly Hall, 41 Fitzroy Square, London.
○ David Campton was Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre's first writer-in-residence and met Stephen Joseph as a participant in one of his playwriting courses held at the Central School Of Speech And Drama, London, prior to Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre opening in 1955.
○ The programme credits Heath Block as playing the Radio Announcer; Heath Block was one of several pseudonyms used by the company's Artistic Director Stephen Joseph.
○ Stephen Joseph launched the inaugural winter season in 1957, which would run until 1961 and would then not be reinstated until 1974.
○ The Lunatic View was the first play presented by the Studio Theatre Ltd company to have been written specifically for in-the-round performance.
○ The Lunatic View consisted of four one act plays by David Campton: Memento Mori, A Smell of Burning, Getting & Spending and Then….
○ Although The Lunatic View is not credited as a world premiere at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, this was the world premiere production having opened in London prior to the winter season at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, Scarborough. The Lunatic View originally ran from 25 November - 7 December 1957 at the Mahatma Gandhi Assembly Hall, 41 Fitzroy Square, London.
○ David Campton was Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre's first writer-in-residence and met Stephen Joseph as a participant in one of his playwriting courses held at the Central School Of Speech And Drama, London, prior to Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre opening in 1955.
○ The programme credits Heath Block as playing the Radio Announcer; Heath Block was one of several pseudonyms used by the company's Artistic Director Stephen Joseph.
○ 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.