The Complete Plays: Stranger In The Family (1961)

Production Details
Title:
Author:
New Play:

Venue:
Location:
Staging:
Stranger in the Family
David Campton writing as Norman Horner
Yes

The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Concert Room
No
First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
27 July 1961
27 July 1961
23 August 1961
Company Details
Director:

Stage Manager:
Assistant Stage Manager:
Terry Lane

Terry Lane
Philip Clifford
Character
Peggy Burton
Ken Burton
Edna Burton
Toby Hart
Dick Letts
Actor
Hazel Burt
Stanley Page
Rosamund Dickson
Alan Ayckbourn
David Jarrett
Notes
○ Strange in the Family was credited to Norman Horner, but in 2026 the actor David Jarrett revealed this was a pseudonym for the company's first resident writer, David Campton. It's not known why David wrote this play under a pseudonym - he wrote Usher (1962) as Jocelyn Graves, but that was perhaps because he also directed the play.
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All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd. Image copyright: Scarborough Theatre Trust