The Complete Plays: Victoria Regina (1961)

Production Details
Title:
Author:
New Play:

Venue:
Location:
Staging:
Victoria Regina
Laurence Housman
No

The Library Theatre, Concert Room
Concert Room
Round
First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
12 June 1961
12 June 1961
17 June 1961
Company Details
Director:
Co-Director:

Stage Manager:
Assistant Stage Manager:
Stephen Joseph
Terry Lane

Terry Lane
Philip Clifford
Character
Lord Conyngham
First Footman
Archbishop of Canterbury
Duchess Of Kent
Queen Victoria
Second Footman
Lord Melbourne
Prince Ernest
Prince Albert
John Brown
Lord Beaconsfield
The Doctor
Mrs Manson
The Dean Of Windsor
A Royal Princes
Actor
Alan Ayckbourn
Terry Lane
David Jarrett
Rosamund Dickson
Hazel Burt
Philip Clifford
Stanley Page
David Jarrett
Alan Ayckbourn
David Jarrett
Stanley Page
David Campton
Rosamund Dickson
Alan Ayckbourn
Rosamund Dickson
Notes
○ Victoria Regina was apparently one of Stephen Joseph's favourite plays.
○ The production presented nine of the thirty short plays Housman wrote about Queen Victoria. These were: 1837 The Six O'Clock Call; 1838 Suitable Suitors; 1839 Woman Proposes; 1841 Leading Strings; 1861 Intervention; 1877 The Queen! God Bless Her!; 1881 Her Favourite Flower; 1882 Religious Difficulties; 1897 Happy and Glorious.
○ This is believed to be the first professional in-the-round production of Victoria Regina in the UK.
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All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd. Image copyright: Scarborough Theatre Trust