A Theatrical Revolution
A Theatrical Revolution - Stephen Joseph and the Creation of Theatre in the Round celebrates the creation and inaugural year of the UK's first professional theatre-in-the-round opened in 1955 by Stephen Joseph on the first floor of Scarborough Library.
Including an exclusive preface and interview with Sir Alan Ayckbourn, the book sees theatre historian and Alan Ayckbourn's archivist Simon Murgatroyd take an in-depth look into the creation of the company and the challenges it faced.
Drawing on archival material held by Scarborough Library and in the Ayckbourn Archive at the Borthwick Institute for Archives, the book explores how a significant moment in British Theatre history came to pass in the most unlikely of places on the first floor of Scarborough Library.
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The contents include…
Including an exclusive preface and interview with Sir Alan Ayckbourn, the book sees theatre historian and Alan Ayckbourn's archivist Simon Murgatroyd take an in-depth look into the creation of the company and the challenges it faced.
Drawing on archival material held by Scarborough Library and in the Ayckbourn Archive at the Borthwick Institute for Archives, the book explores how a significant moment in British Theatre history came to pass in the most unlikely of places on the first floor of Scarborough Library.
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The contents include…
- A preface by Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE
- An interview with Sir Alan Ayckbourn about his early memories of working at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre.
- An in-depth account by Simon Murgatroyd of the founding year of the company in 1955 from concept to performance to aftermath.
- Contemporary articles by Stephen Joseph explain and promoting Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre.
- Details of the 1955 company and plays.
- A brief timeline of Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre from 1955 - 1976.
- A newly created ground plan illustrating the layout of Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre on Scarborough Library's first floor.
- Rarely seen photographs and extensive footnotes.
Details
Title: A Theatrical Revolution
Author: Simon Murgatroyd
Published: 2026 (second edition)
Price: £10 (P&P included - UK only)
Author: Simon Murgatroyd
Published: 2026 (second edition)
Price: £10 (P&P included - UK only)
Pages: 64 (B/W)
Format: Softcover, A5
Publisher: Lulu Books
ISBN: 9781291789201
Format: Softcover, A5
Publisher: Lulu Books
ISBN: 9781291789201
£10.00
UK only - includes
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