The Complete Plays: The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon (1965)

Production Details
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Author:
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Location:
Round:
The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon
Henry Livings
No

The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Concert Room
Round
First performance:
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Final performance:
12 August 1965
12 August 1965
25 August 1965
Company Details
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Stage Manager:
Alfred Bradley
Clive Goodhead

Valerie Fletcher
Character
Dumbfounded
Mrs Skern
Im
Belch
Op
Inge
Actor
Henry Livings
Eileen Derbyshire
Peter King
Peter Ellis Jones
Pamela Craig
Terence Wilton
Notes
○ The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon featured a special guest appearance for this triple bill only of Eileen Derbyshire - better known as Emily Bishop (nee Nugent) in the long-running British television soap opera Coronation Street. By the time she performed in Scarborough, she had already been in the television show for five years.
○ The Day Dumbfounded Got His Pylon was presented as part of a triple bill (entitled Out Of Thin Air) alongside See The Pretty Lights by Alan Plater and The Governor's Lady by David Mercer.
○ In advertising for the triple bill, both Henry Livings - who wrote this play and starred in out - and Eileen Derbyshire were heavily promoted as special guests.
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.