The Plays: Year-by-Year (1971)

This page contains productions details for all plays produced by Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, during 1971. All information on this page has been researched and compiled by Simon Murgatroyd M.A. from programmes, brochures and newspaper articles.

Summer 1971

All plays were performed in-the-round in the Concert Room at Scarborough Library. The season ran from 14 June to 11 September 1971.

Under Milk Wood

Author:
New Play:

First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:

Director:
Costumes:
Music:
Dylan Thomas
No

14 June 1971
14 June 1971
21 July 1971

Caroline Smith
Tina Bicat
Daniel Jones
Character
All actors played various roles
Actor
Roger Kemp
Tim Meats
Christopher Godwin
Gerson Grant
Jenny Austen
Gil Osborne
Eve Shickle
Tina Bicat

The Daughter-in-Law

Author:
New Play:

First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:

Director:
Costumes:
D.H. Lawrence
No

21 June 1971
21 June 1971
28 July 1971

Caroline Smith
Tina Bicat
Character
Mrs Gascoigne
Joe
Mrs Purdy
Minnie
Luther
Cabman
Actor
Eve Shickle
Roger Kemp
Jenny Austen
Gil Osborne
Tim Meats
Gerson Grant

Time & Time Again

Author:
New Play:

First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:

Director:
Alan Ayckbourn
Yes

8 July 1971
8 July 1971
11 September 1971

Alan Ayckbourn
Character
Leonard
Graham, his brother-in-law
Anna, his sister
Joan
Peter, her fiance
Actor
Christopher Godwin
Roger Kemp
Eve Shickle
Gil Osborne
Tim Meats

Revenge

Author:
New Play:

First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:

Director:
Howard Brenton
No

5 August 1971
5 August 1971
1 September 1971

Caroline Smith
Character
Adam Hepple
Voice of Brixton Gaol
Rot
Bung
P.C. George
P.C. Albert / Ghost of P.C. Albert
Liz
Jane
Asst. Comm. Archibald Macleish
Daisy, a cow

Cowhand
Dorothy Macleish
Actor
Hay Jeayes
Tim Meats
Roger Kemp
Christopher Godwin
Time Meats
Gerson Grant
Jenny Austen
Eve Shickle
Hay Jeayes
Jenny Austen
Eve Shickle
Gerson Grant
Jenny Austen

One For The Road

Author:
Adaptation:
New Play:

First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:

Director:
Costumes:
Music:
Ray Herman
Boccaccio's The Decameron
Yes

19 August 1971
19 August 1971
8 September 1971

Caroline Smith
Tina Bicat
Nicholas & Tina Bicat
Character
Lorenzo Medici
Niccolo Machiavelli
Cesar Borgia
Leonardo Da Vinci
Pig
Sandra
Chorus
Actor
Tim Meats
Roger Kemp
Christopher Godwin
Hal Jeayes
Tina Bicat
Jenny Austen
Jenny Austen
Tina Bicat
Gerson Grant
Hal Jeayes
Gil Osborne
Eve Shickle

1971 Production Notes

○ The 1971 season was overseen by Caroline Smith as the Director Of Productions (Artistic Director). She directed all but one of the plays and was the final person to be seasonally appointed to this role before Alan Ayckbourn was appointed Artistic Director in 1972 through to 2009. She remains - as of writing - the company's only female Artistic Director.
○ Under Milk Wood marked the first performance of the actor Christopher Godwin with the company. Christopher is one of the company’s most prolific actors and was responsible for creating a number of classic Ayckbourn roles. He was part of the company between 1971 and 1977 and subsequently returned a number of times between 1996 and 2023.
○ Time & Time Again was the only production directed by Alan Ayckbourn during the 1971 summer season at the Library Theatre, primarily due to his commitments to his first transfer of a play - How The other Half Loves - to North America.
○ Time & Time Again was the first production to have a water feature on stage at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, in the form of a small pond; early in the play's run, this leaked overnight into the reading room of Scarborough public library directly beneath the Concert Room at the venue where Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre was based.
○ One For The Road is actually credited to Ray Herman and the company.
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).