The Complete Plays: Making Tracks (1981)

Production Details
Title:
Author / Lyrics:
Music:
New Play:

Venue:
Location:
Staging:
Making Tracks
Alan Ayckbourn
Paul Todd
Yes

Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round
Main house (Round)
Round
First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
15 December 1981
16 December 1981
9 January 1982
Company Details
Director:
Musical Director:
Lighting:
Sound:
Design:

Stage Manager:
Deputy Stage Manager:
Assistant Stage Manager:
Assistant Stage Manager:
Alan Ayckbourn
Paul Todd
Francis Lynch
Francis Lynch
Michael Holt

Isobel Nimmo
Eric Lumsden
Sue Merry
John Skitt
Character
Rog, a sound engineer
Sandy, a singer
Lennie, a keyboard player
Chris, a drummer
Gus, a guitarist
Stan, an impressario
Wolfe, A businessman
Lace, a good friend
Mrs Witts, a mother
Actor
Peter Ackerman
Lavinia Bertram
Dave Newton
Paul Todd
Iain Hawkins
Roger Llewellyn
Robin Bowerman
Gillian Bevan
Susan Uebel
Notes
○ Making Tracks was a musical written by Alan Ayckbourn and Paul Todd inspired by Alan Ayckbourn’s career as a Radio Drama Producer for the BBC in Leeds.
○ Alan Ayckbourn had always found difficulties in where to put the band for a musical in-the-round; he solved the problem for Making Tracks by making the band an integral part of the play and on stage.
○ This was the final full-length collaboration between Alan Ayckbourn and the theatre’s Musical Director Paul Todd.
Links
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd. Image copyright: Scarborough Theatre Trust