The Complete Plays: O'Flaherty V.C. (1962)

Production Details
Title:
Author:
New Play:

Venue:
Location:
Staging:
O'Flaherty V.C.
George Bernard Shaw
No

The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Concert Room
Round
First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
21 June 1962
21 June 1962
15 August 1962
Company Details
Director:

Stage Manager:
Stage Manager:
Peter Cheeseman

Arnold Beck
David Wehner
Character
Private O'Flaherty V.C.
General Sir Pearce Madigan
Mrs O'Flaherty
Teresa Driscoll
Actor
Alan Ayckbourn
Richard Gill
Marie Adams
Elizabeth Bell
Notes
○ The director Peter Cheeseman joined the Studio Theatre company for the Scarborough 1962 summer season before moving with the company to its first permanent home at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, in the autumn. He would go on to become the long-running Artistic Director of the Victoria (later the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme) from 1962 - 1998.
○ O'Flaherty V.C. was presented as part of a Bernard Shaw double-bill with The Man Of Destiny.
○ The original brochure for the summer season advertised The Man of Destiny would be part of a Shaw triple bill alongside two other unnamed plays. However by the time of production, the evening had become just a double-bill alongside O'Flaherty V.C..
○ This is believed to be the first professional in-the-round production of O'Flaherty V.C. in the UK.
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All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd. Image copyright: Scarborough Theatre Trust