Alan Ayckbourn: Actor

An Awkward Number (1963)

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An Awkward Number
William Elmhirst


25 March 1963
To be confirmed

Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent
Round

Peter Cheeseman
Character
Sophie Reeve
Alan Reeve
Steve Shields
Leila Shields
Robert
Waiter
Actor
Elizabeth Bell
Peter King
Stanley Page
Heather Stoney
Alan Ayckbourn
Howard Mitchell

Quotes & Notes

During 1962, the Studio Theatre Ltd company moved from its home at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, to a new permanent venue at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent. Alan Ayckbourn joined the move to the new venue, responsible for writing, directing and acting. Very little is held in Alan Ayckbourn's personal archive about the plays he was involved in during 1963 and there are no programmes, press cuttings or reviews of the shows held in archive.

1963 marked the last year Alan did any substantial amount of acting prior to his retiring from acting to concentrate on writing and directing from 1964 onwards.

An Awkward Number was originally advertised to close on 22 June 1963. However, its final week of performance was cancelled and replaced with an extra week of The Rehearsal.

Review extract from The Stage (April 1963)
"The part of the fifth member in the unhappy collection of people brought together in a hotel is played with satisfying assurance by Alan Ayckbourn, one of the most talented members of the company."
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd.