The Complete Plays: The Private Ear (1964)

Production Details
Title:
Author:
New Play:

Venue:
Location:
Staging:
The Private Ear
Peter Shaffer
No

The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Concert Room,
Round
First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
4 June 1964
4 June 1964
Not known
Company Details
Director:

Stage Manager:
Assistant Stage Manager:
Rosamund Dickson

John Brennan
Tommy O'Sullivan
Character
Bob
Ted
Doreen
Actor
Norman Wingrove
Darryl Kavann
Pamela Craig
Why is this play significant?
The double-bill of The Private Ear / The Public Eye was directed by Rosamund Dickson who was the company's first female director; she had previously worked with the company as an actor.
Notes
○ The Private Ear was presented in a double bill (entitled Two Plays By Peter Shaffer) with The Public Eye.
○ The director, Rosamund Dickson, had previously been an actor with the company between 1960 and 1961. She was the company's first female director. The other female directors at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre were Joan Macalpine (1968), Pamela Craig (1969), Janet Dale (1974 - 1975), Matyelok Gibbs (1972) and Caroline Smith (1971).
○ The programme credits Bob as being played by Normon Wingrove as opposed to Norman Wingrove.
○ This is believed to be the first professional in-the-round production of The Private Ear in the UK.
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.