The Complete Plays: Death At The New Year (1962)

Production Details
Title:
Author:
New Play:

Venue:
Location:
Staging:
Death at the New Year
R.G. Gregory
Yes

The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Concert Room
Round
First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
13 September 1962
13 September 1962
15 September 1962
Company Details
Director:

Stage Manager:
Stage Manager:
Peter Cheeseman

Arnold Beck
David Wehner
Character
Martin
Catherine
Narrator / Martin's stepfather
Pop Singer / Catherine's father
Martin's mother / Medium
Officer / Vicar
Actor
Peter King
Elizabeth Bell
Alan Ayckbourn
Richard Gill
Marie Adams
Stanley Page
Notes
○ Death In The New Year marked the final performance by Studio Theatre Ltd in Scarborough before the company moved to its new home at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, in autumn 1962. Not wishing to close Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, Stephen Joseph ran the theatre under his company Theatre In The Round Ltd for two years before incorporating a new company, Scarborough Theatre Trust, in 1964. This company still exists today and runs the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
○ This marked the first professional production of a play by R.G. Gregory; he had previously written a number of,ber of plays and had them produced by amateur companies. He was a great advocate of theatre in the round and write more than 20 plays.
○ This marked the final time Alan Ayckbourn would ever act with the Scarborough company. He would also not be a permanent member of the company again until he returned as Director of Productions in 1969; although he would contribute the plays Relatively Speaking (then known as Meet My Father) in 1965 and The Sparrow - which he also directed - in 1967.
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All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.