The Complete Plays: 'Prentice Pillar (1960)

Production Details
Title:
Author:
New Play:

Venue:
Location:
Staging:
'Prentice Pillar
Ruth Dixon
No

The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Concert Room
Round
First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
15 June 1960
15 June 1960
22 June 1960
Company Details
Director:

Stage Manager:
Stephen Joseph

Terry Lane
Character
Dick
Essie
Prentice
Martha
Master Mason
The Tub
Actor
David Campton
Hazel Burt
Alan Ayckbourn
Anita Robinson
David Glover
Faynia Jeffery
Notes
○ 'Prentice Pillar was the first play to be revived by Studio Theatre Ltd at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, Scarborough. It received its world premiere at the venue during its inaugural season in 1955 and further details can be found here.
○ Originally scheduled to run in repertory throughout the summer season until 17 August, 'Prentice Pillar actually only lasted a single week before the entire summer schedule was altered and its later productions replaced by two week runs of Love After All and Wuthering Heights.
○ The brochure for the 1960 summer season at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre incorrectly states the play was first produced in 1956, rather than 1955.
○ 'Prentice Pillar was presented without an interval.
Links
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd. Image copyright: Scarborough Theatre Trust