The Complete Plays: The Man Of Destiny (1962)

Production Details
Title:
Author:
New Play:

Venue:
Location:
Staging:
The Man of Destiny
George Bernard Shaw
No

The Library Theatre, Scarborough
Concert Room
Round
First performance:
Opening night:
Final performance:
21 June 1962
21 June 1962
15 August 1962
Company Details
Director:

Stage Manager:
Stage Manager:
Peter Cheeseman

Arnold Beck
David Wehner
Character
Napoleon
Giuseppe
Lieutenant
Strange Lady
Actor
Stanley Page
Richard Gill
Peter King
Elizabeth Bell
Notes
○ The director Peter Cheeseman joined the Studio Theatre company for the Scarborough 1961 Winter / 1962 summer seasons before moving with the company to its first permanent home at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, in the autumn. He would go on to become the long-running Artistic Director of the Victoria (later the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme) from 1964 - 1998.
○ The Man Of Destiny was presented as part of a Bernard Shaw double-bill with O'Flaherty V.C..
○ The original brochure for the summer season advertised The Man of Destiny would be part of a Shaw triple bill alongside two other unnamed plays. However by the time of production, the evening had become just a double-bill.
○ This is believed to be the first professional in-the-round production of The Man of Destiny in the UK.
All research for this page by Simon Murgatroyd. Image copyright: Scarborough Theatre Trust