The Complete Plays: Little Brother, Little Sister (1961)
Production Details
Title:
Author:
New Play:
Venue:
Location:
Staging:
Author:
New Play:
Venue:
Location:
Staging:
Little Brother, Little Sister
David Campton
No
The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Concert Room
Round
David Campton
No
The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Concert Room
Round
First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
22 June 1961
22 June 1961
28 June 1961
22 June 1961
28 June 1961
Company Details
Director:
Stage Manager:
Assistant Stage Manager:
Stage Manager:
Assistant Stage Manager:
Stephen Joseph
Terry Lane
Philip Clifford
Terry Lane
Philip Clifford
Character
Cook
Sir
Madam
Cook
Sir
Madam
Actor
Alan Ayckbourn
David Jarrett
Rosamund Dickson
Alan Ayckbourn
David Jarrett
Rosamund Dickson
Production Details (Canadian Television Broadcast)
Programme:
Broadcaster:
Broadcast Date:
Broadcast Time:
Author:
Director:
Broadcaster:
Broadcast Date:
Broadcast Time:
Author:
Director:
Shoestring Theatre
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
9 December 1964
To be confirmed
David Campton
To be confirmed
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
9 December 1964
To be confirmed
David Campton
To be confirmed
Character
Sir
To be confirmed
To be confirmed
Sir
To be confirmed
To be confirmed
Actor
Peter Cullen
Mary Hitch Blendick
Diane Sonderskov
Peter Cullen
Mary Hitch Blendick
Diane Sonderskov
Notes
○ Little Brother, Little Sister was part of an evening of three plays by David Campton presented under the title Four Minute Warning. The other plays were At Sea 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.○ In possibly one of his most memorable roles, Alan Ayckbourn played the role of Cook - an eighty year old, psychotic female chef!
○ David Campton's Little Brother, Little Sister is the first play presented by the company to be adapted for television. It was shown in Canada on 6 December 1964 on Shoestring Theatre produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (see details above).
○ 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.○ In possibly one of his most memorable roles, Alan Ayckbourn played the role of Cook - an eighty year old, psychotic female chef!
○ David Campton's Little Brother, Little Sister is the first play presented by the company to be adapted for television. It was shown in Canada on 6 December 1964 on Shoestring Theatre produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Company (see details above).
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All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd. Image copyright: Scarborough Theatre Trust