The Plays: Year-by-Year (1964)

This page contains productions details for all plays produced by Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, during 1964. All information on this page has been researched and compiled by Simon Murgatroyd M.A. from programmes, brochures and newspaper articles.

Summer 1964

All plays were performed in-the-round in the Concert Room at Scarborough Library. The season ran from 4 June to early September 1964.

The Private Ear

Author:
New Play:

First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
Peter Shaffer
No

4 June 1964
4 June 1964
Not known
Director:

Character
Bob
Ted
Doreen
Rosamund Dickson

Actor
Norman Wingrove
Darryl Kavann
Pamela Craig
Note: The Private Ear was performed in a double-bill with The Public Eye.

The Public Eye

Author:
New Play:

First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
Peter Shaffer
No

4 June 1964
4 June 1964
Not known
Director:

Character
Julian
Charles
Belinda
Rosamund Dickson

Actor
Darryl Kavann
Derek Tobias
Karin MacCarthy
Note: The Public Eye Ear was performed in a double-bill with The Private Ear.

Private Lives

Author:
New Play:

First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:

Director:
Noël Coward
No

11 June 1964
11 June 1964
Not known

Terry Lane
Character
Sibyl Chase
Elyot Chase
Victor Prynne
Amanda Prynne
Louise
Actor
Jane Young
Darryl Kavann
Derek Tobias
Pamela Craig
Karin MacCarthy

The Tiger and the Horse

Author:
New Play:

First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:

Director:
Robert Bolt
No

18 June 1964
18 June 1964
Not known

Terry Lane
Character
Jack Dean
Gwendoline Dean
Mary Dean, his eldest daughter
Stella Dean, his youngest daughter
Louis Flax
Hugo Slate
Actor
Darryl Kavann
Pamela Craig
Jane Young
Karin MacCarthy
Norman Wingrove
Derek Tobias

Dead & Alive

Author:
New Play:

First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:

Director:
David Campton
Yes

30 July 1964
30 July 1964
Not known

Stephen Joseph
Character
Audrey
Jim
Ernest Collop
Agnes Collop
Hugo Collop
Poppy Collop
Actor
Jane Young
Norman Wingrove
Darryl Kavann
Karin MacCarthy
Derek Tobias
Pamela Craig

1964 Production Notes

○ The programme for The Private Ear credits Bob as being played by Normon Wingrove as opposed to Norman Wingrove.
○ The programme for Private Lives mis-spells Karin MacCarthy as Karin McCarthy.
○ The actress Karin MacCarthy did not have much luck with correct credits as a newspaper article in the Scarborough Evening News for The Tiger And The Horse mis-spelt it as Karin McKarthy.
○ Dead & Alive was the only new play to be presented during the 1964 summer season and the only play to be directed by the company's Artistic Director Stephen Joseph.
○ The majority of productions in 1964 were performed without an interval.
All information for this page has been researched and compiled by Simon Murgatroyd and should not be reproduced without permission. Any approved reproduction of information from this page should always credit 'A Round Town (www.theatre-in-the-round.co.uk).