The Complete Plays: The Caretaker (1962)

Production Details
Title:
Author:
New Play:

Venue:
Location:
Staging:
The Caretaker
Harold Pinter
No

The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Concert Room
Round
First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
16 August 1962
16 August 1962
22 August 1962
Company Details
Director:

Stage Manager:
Stage Manager:
Alan Ayckbourn

Arnold Beck
David Wehner
Character
Mick
Aston
Davies
Actor
Peter King
Richard Gill
Stanley Page
Notes
○ The Caretaker marked the second production of a Pinter play by the Studio Theatre company. The first, The Birthday Party, was actually directed by Harold Pinter himself in 1958 and was only the second professional production of the play following its original disastrous London production. The Birthday Party was only performed on tour by the company though, so The Caretaker marked the first time a Pinter play had been professionally produced and seen in Scarborough.
○ Stanley Page would later reprise the role of Davies for Alan Ayckbourn in 1976. Alan revived The Caretaker during the first season at the company's new home at Theatre In The Round at Westwood.
○ This is believed to be the first professional in-the-round production of The Caretaker in the UK.
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.