The Complete Plays: Brighton Beach Memoirs (1989)

Production Details
Title:
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Location:
Staging:
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Neil Simon
No

Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round
Main house (Round)
Round
First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
25 October 1989
31 October 1989
18 November 1989
Company Details
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Lighting:
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Stage Manager:
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Assistant Stage Manager:
Michael Simkins
Francis Stevenson
Juliet Nicols
Paul Edwards

Vaughan Curtis
Natasha Betteridge
Lynda Snowden
Sarah Percival
Marina Kilby
Character
Eugene
Jack, his father
Kate, his mother
Stanley, his brother
Blanche, his aunt, Kate's sister
Nora, his cousin
Laurie, his cousin
Actor
Ian Dunn
James Tomlinson
Alison Skilbeck
Michael Higgs
Lesley Meade
Robin McCaffrey
Joanne Bett
Notes
○ For the play’s dinner scene, the play requires the actors eat a meal of liver, cabbage and mashed potatoes every performance. However, as two of the cast were vegetarians, their meals were served with aubergines instead of liver, propped to resemble meat!
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd. Image copyright: Scarborough Theatre Trust