Alan Ayckbourn: Actor
Darling (1958)
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Darling
Andre Roussin
20 January 1958
Oxford Playhouse
End-stage
Frank Hauser
Michael Richardson
Andre Roussin
20 January 1958
Oxford Playhouse
End-stage
Frank Hauser
Michael Richardson
Character
Tinini
Bob
Simon
Michael
Aunt Edmee
Esther
Stepha
Mick
Tinini
Bob
Simon
Michael
Aunt Edmee
Esther
Stepha
Mick
Actor
Ann Walford
Christopher Hancock
Edgar Wreford
Joss Ackland
Winifred Evans
Mary Laura Wood
Mai Zetterling
Alan Ayckbourn
Ann Walford
Christopher Hancock
Edgar Wreford
Joss Ackland
Winifred Evans
Mary Laura Wood
Mai Zetterling
Alan Ayckbourn
Quotes & Notes
Alan Ayckbourn worked at the Oxford Playhouse following his first summer season at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, in 1957. He was part of the Playhouse company for the autumn / winter 1957 season until Stephen Joseph asked him to return to Scarborough for the summer of 1958. Despite the Playhouse hoping he would stay on, Alan decided to pursue his theatrical career in Scarborough."At the end of that season [his first summer season at the Library Theatre, Scarborough] a certain director from Oxford, a man called Milos Volanakis, had been up to see a couple of the shows and had liked my performances - at least, I put it down modestly to the idea that that's what he'd liked. He wanted me to audition for Oxford Playhouse, which he ran with Frank Hauser. I was always to be fated like this, to be drifting from one job to another. I never, in all my years of acting, was ever unemployed. Once I started at Worthing, I didn't stop: Worthing, Leatherhead, Scarborough, Oxford, Scarborough....
"I went to Oxford, and again fell right into a very, very nice situation. I was very lucky there, because once again there was a big, talented company, a marvellous man running it - Frank Hauser, who was again a man genuinely interested in young talent who went out of his way to help - and it was a theatre that was on the up at the time. I suppose if I'd auditioned for it, I'd never have got in. I did Under Milk Wood there, and I played the romantic juve with Mai Zetterling. In fact we did a lot of exciting things that were good for a boy at that age."
('Conversations With Ayckbourn', 1981)
Review extract (publication unknown)
"Alan Ayckbourn sharply suggests the misery of adolescent love with a fine mixture of shyness and awkward anxiety."
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.