The Complete Plays: The Public Eye (1964)

Production Details
Title:
Author:
New Play:

Venue:
Location:
Staging:
The Public Eye
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
Julian
Charles
Belinda
Actor
Darryl Kavann
Derek Tobias
Karin MacCarthy
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 Public Eye was presented in a double bill (entitled Two Plays By Peter Shaffer) with The Private Ear.
○ 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).
○ This is believed to be the first professional in-the-round production of The Public Eye in the UK.
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.