The Complete Plays: 1973 Overview

This page contains details about the 1973 season at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, Scarborough. For details about individual plays, click on the play titles below.

All information on this page has been researched and compiled by Simon Murgatroyd M.A. from programmes, brochures and newspaper articles.

Summer 1973

All plays were performed in-the-round in the Concert Room at Scarborough Library. The season ran from 18 June to 15 September 1973. The plays were performed in rep with a change of programme on Thursdays.
Advertised / Actual Programme
○ Fancy Meeting You
○ Make Yourself At Home
○ Fancy Meeting You
○ Make Yourself At Home
○ Round and Round the Garden
○ Fancy Meeting You
○ Make Yourself At Home
○ Round and Round the Garden
○ Fancy Meeting You
○ Make Yourself At Home
○ Round and Round the Garden
○ Fancy Meeting You
○ Make Yourself At Home
○ Round and Round the Garden
○ Fancy Meeting You
○ Make Yourself At Home
○ Round and Round the Garden
○ Fancy Meeting You
○ Make Yourself At Home
○ Round and Round the Garden
○ Having A Lovely Time
○ Fancy Meeting You
18 - 23 Jun
25 - 27 Jun
28 Jun - 4 Jul
5 - 7 Jul
9 - 11 Jul
12 Jul
13 Jul
14 Jul
16 Jul
17 Jul
18 Jul
19 Jul
20 Jul
21 Jul
23 Jul
24 Jul
25 Jul
26 Jul
27 Jul
28 Jul
30 Jul - 1 Aug
2 Aug
○ Make Yourself At Home
○ Round and Round the Garden
○ Fancy Meeting You
○ Make Yourself At Home
○ Round and Round the Garden
○ Having A Lovely Time
○ Fancy Meeting You
○ Make Yourself At Home
○ Round and Round the Garden
○ All Together Now
○ Having A Lovely Time
○ All Together Now
○ Fancy Meeting You
○ Make Yourself At Home
○ Round and Round the Garden
○ Fancy Meeting You
○ Make Yourself At Home
○ Round and Round the Garden
○ All Together Now
○ Fancy Meeting You
○ Make Yourself At Home
○ Round and Round the Garden
3 Aug
4 Aug
6 Aug
7 Aug
8 Aug
9 - 15 Aug
16 Aug
17 Aug
18 Aug
20 - 22 Aug
23 - 25 Aug
27 - 29 Aug
30 Aug
31 Aug
1 Sept
3 Sept
4 Sept
5 Sept
6 - 12 Sept
13 Sept
14 Sept
15 Sept
Creatives
Alan Ayckbourn (Artistic Director / Writer)
Christopher Godwin (Director)
Stanley Page (Director)
Peter Blythe (Writer)
Peter King (Writer)
Christine Welch (Wardrobe)
Actors
Rosalind Adams
Janet Dale
Christopher Godwin
Ronald Herdman
Alex Marshall
Stanley Page
Other Staff
Ken Boden (General Manager)
David Price (Company Stage Manager)
Allan Took (Deputy Stage Manager)
Robert Benfield (ASM)
Kay Jamieson (Publicity Officer)
John Boden (Publicity Design)
Veronica Pemberton-Billing (Catering Manager)
Pat Houghton (Catering Assistant)
Wilfred Houghton (FoH Assistant Manager)
Margaret Boden (Box Office)
Connie Garlick (Box Office)
1973 Production Notes
○ Fancy Meeting You, Make Yourself At Home and Round and Round the Garden are now better known as The Norman Conquests trilogy; however, that title was not used during the world premiere run of the trilogy and was created for the London transfer the following year. It was initially just known as 'The Trilogy' by the company.
○ It was reported by The Stage newspaper that this season had broken all box office records just six weeks into the season.
○ Contrary to belief, the Ayckbourn trilogy (The Norman Conquests) was not performed on a single day on the final day of the summer season. The plays were only performed on individual nights and it would only be with its London transfer in 1974 that the concept of having all three plays performed on the same day became a reality.
○ Having A Lovely Time marked the directorial debut of Stanley Page; he is better known as one of the company’s most prolific actors having worked with the company at various points between 1960 and 1986.
○ This was the first play by Peter King to be staged at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre and was one of three world premieres by the writer to be staged by the company. Peter had previously worked with the company as an actor during the early 1960s including appearing in the world premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking (then titled Meet My Father).
○ All Together Now marked the directorial debut of Christopher Godwin at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre. He is better known as a prolific actor with the company between 1971 and 1977.
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).