The Complete Plays: A View From The Brink (1960)

A View From The Brink
A View From The Brink was the name given to an evening of three short plays by David Campton. For full details of the individual plays, visit the pages for Out Of The Flying Pan, Soldier From The Wars Returning and Mutatis Mutandis.
Production Details
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A View From The Brink
David Campton
Yes

The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Concert Room
Round
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4 August 1960
4 August 1960
10 September 1960
Company Details
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Assistant Stage Manager:
Stephen Joseph

Terry Lane
Martin Carthy
Actors
Alan Ayckbourn
David Campton
Derrick Gilbert
Actors
David Glover
Faynia Jeffrey
Hazel Ann Lee
Why is this play significant?
David Campton's anthologies A View From The Brink and Four Minute Warning (1961) are notable in that they brought Campton to the national eye, drawing favourable comparisons with the likes of Harold Pinter and leading Campton to be labelled as a foremost proponent of the 'Theatre of Menace' genre.
Notes
○ A View From The Brink consisted of three plays by David Campton: Out Of The Flying Pan, Soldier From The Wars Returning and Mutatis Mutandis.
○ David Campton was a participant in one of Stephen Joseph's playwriting courses held at the Central School Of Speech And Drama, London, prior to Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre opening. He would become Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre's first writer-in-residence.
○ A View From The Brink was originally advertised as closing on 7 September but with extensive changes to the season once it had gone underway - largely to remove 'Prentice Pillar from the schedule - its run was extended to 10 September.
○ A View From The Brink was presented without an interval.
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd. Image copyright: Scarborough Theatre Trust