Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round: In The Round Festival ('77 - '87)

The In The Round Festival, first staged from 1960 - 1968 (see here), was revived by Alan Ayckbourn - probably with the encouragement of Ken Boden - in 1977 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round. Alan himself adjudicated the first several festivals which attracted entrants from throughout the Yorkshire region.

Sadly, even less details of the revived In The Round Festivals are held in archive than for the Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre years, but what details that survive are reproduced below.
1977 (10-12, 17-19 March) - Tenth Festival
Adjudicator: Alan Ayckbourn

No further details known

1979 (dates unknown) - Thirteenth Festival
Adjudicator: Alan Ayckbourn

Bridlington Theatre Workshop
No further details known

1980 (11-15 March) - Fourteenth Festival
Adjudicator: Alan Ayckbourn

Eastfield County Youth Centre
The Original Two (Leeds)
Triangle (Boston Spa)
Scalby School
Bridlington Theatre Workshop
Cottingham District School
Wheatcroft School
Scarborough Sixth Form College
Proscenium Players (Leeds)
Whitley Bay Theatre Club
Rotherham Theatre Workshop
St George’s Youth Club
Hull Garret Players

1981 (6-11 April) - Fifteenth Festival
Adjudicator: Alan Ayckbourn

The Pedagogues (Warwick University)
Sixth Form College Drama Club
Cresta Players
Eastfield Youth Centre
Graham School
Original II Drama Club (Leeds)
Proscenium Players (Leeds)
Outsiders
Bridlington Theatre Workshop
Scalby School
Young Humberites (Hull)
Company Theatre (Hull)
College Of Arts (Rotherham)
Hull Garret Players
Theatre Club (Whitley Bay)

1982 (dates unknown)
Adjudicator: Unknown

1983 (dates unknown)
Adjudicator: Unknown

1984 (dates unknown)
Adjudicator: Unknown

1985 (22 - 28 April) - Nineteenth Festival
Adjudicator: Mavourneen Dwyer

Hunmanby Drama Group
The Ayton Players
Hunmanby Drama Group
Take Away Theatre
Solitaire Theatre Company
Hinderwell Drama Group
Open Stage Theatre Company
Theatre Workshop Bridlington
Malvern Players
Pedagogues Dramatic Society
Stepladder Theatre Company
St George's Youth Club (Bradford)
The Original Two Group (Wetherby)
Theatre Club Whitley Bay
Flat 4 Players
Hull Garret Players
Hull Musical Youth Group

1986 (21 - 26 April) - Twentieth Festival
Adjudicator: Russell Whiteley

Hunmaby Drama Group
Hunmanby Drama Group
Hunmanby Drama Group
Outsiders ADS
Hull Garret Players
Ayton Players
Victoria Players (Scarborough)
Rowntree Players (York)
The Original Two (Wetherby)
Theatre Workshop Bridlington
Ayton Players
Hedon Drama Group
Hessle AODS

1987 (6-11 April)
Adjudicator: Russell Whiteley








Pieces Of Hate





Show Box Pyramid
After Midnight - Before Dawn
Pastiche
Down By The River
Fools Errand
The Late Miss Cordell
Piggy In The Middle
Snap Out Of It
The Happy Journey
Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?
Super Knut
Here Today. Worry Tomorrow…
In Camera




The Crucible
La Vie Sans Vaches
Audition For A Writer
Having A Lovely Time
Soldier From The War Returning
Parcel
Mutatis Mutandis
Per Ardua Ad Astra
Infectious Diseases
With One Accord
The Insect Play
The What On The Landing
Exception & The Rule
Soldier From The War Returning
Funny, You Don’t Laugh Jewish


No further details known


No further details known


No further details known




Play For Yesterday
Deadline Dawn
Shelter
A Funny Thing
Mother
We Don't Laugh Anymore
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Collection
Night Out
Merry Troopers
Lifelines
Under Milk Wood
Mixed Doubles
With All My Love I Hate You
David's Birthday
The Bear
The Happy Journey




The Dumb Waiter
My Mother Said
Whoudini
Key For Two
Relatively Speaking
At the Changing of the Year
The Walking Wounded
One Season's King
The Suitor
Habeas Corpus
The Space Between The Years
Stress Fracture
The Purging


No further details known








Richard Franks





Dave Smart & Paul Bates
David Campton
Nick Hall
Ted Harden
Margaret Wood
Philip Johnson
G. Wright & J. Dickinson
Devised
Thornton Wilder
Edward Albee
Paul Daniels
Devised
Jean-Paul Sartre




Arthur Miller
Tony Waltham & Michael Wood
Doris M Day
Paul bates & Dave Smart
David Campton
David Campton
David Campton
Dorohty Galvin
Richard Franks
Ted Harben
Bertold Brecht
Alan Plater
Bertold Brecht
David Campton
Mike Tibbets


No further details known


No further details known


No further details known




James Saunders
Anthony Booth
Alun Owen
Paul Burbridge
Neville Smith
Graham Clark
Frances Goodrich
Harold Pinter
Ted Harben
Michael Jones
Djenane Watkins
Dylan Thomas
Various
Lynda Marshal
Gillian Plowman
Chekhov
Thornton Wilder




Harold Pinter
Anne Powell
Brian Jepson
John Chapman
Alan Ayckbourn
Malcolm Young
Donovan Da Silva
George MacEwan Green
Leonard Horley
Alan Bennett
John Scholes
Steve Twinn
George Feydeau
All research by Simon Murgatroyd. All information on this page is held at Scarborough Library in the Stephen Joseph Theatre Collection.