The Complete Plays: The Christmas That Nearly Wasn't (1974)

Production Details
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The Christmas That Nearly Wasn't
Janet Dale
Yes

The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Large Lecture Room
Three-sided
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23 December 1974
23 December 1974
11 January 1975
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Janet Dale
Helga Wood
Christine Welch
Bob Eaton

David Millard
Kevin Wood
Actor (Roles not known)
Janet Dale
Stuart Doughty
Bob Eaton
Carl Forgione
Christopher Godwin
Actor (Roles not known)
Ray Jewers
Stephen Mallatratt
Eileen O’Brien
Paul Webster
Kevin Wood
Why is this play significant?
The Christmas That Nearly Wasn't was the first children's Christmas play to be presented at The Library Theatre, Scarborough, since Alan Ayckbourn's Dad's Tale in 1960.
Notes
○ During the 1974 and 1975 winter seasons at The Library Theatre, Scarborough, the Library Committee did not make the venue's Concert Room available; this room being where The Library Theatre had been based since 1955. In its place, a smaller room on the same floor - the Large Lecture Room - was offered but which could not incorporate theatre-in-the-round with productions performed three-sided (thrust).
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd. Image copyright: Scarborough Theatre Trust