Alan Ayckbourn: Plays Directed

The Caretaker (1962)

Production Details

Author:
New Play:

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Final performance:
Harold Pinter
No

Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre
Concert Room, Scarborough Library
Round

16 August 1962
16 August 1962
22 August 1962
Director:

Stage Manager:
Stage Manager:
Alan Ayckbourn

Arnold Beck
David Wehner
Character
Mick
Aston
Davies
Actor
Peter King
Richard Gill
Stanley Page

Notes

The Caretaker marked the second production of a Pinter play by the Studio Theatre company. The first, The Birthday Party, was actually directed by Harold Pinter himself in 1958 and was only the second professional production of the play following its original disastrous London production. The Birthday Party was only performed on tour by the company though, so The Caretaker marked the first time a Pinter play had been professionally produced and seen in Scarborough.
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.