• Review For Us
  • List Your Show
  • Advertising
  • Musicals
  • Plays
  • Ballet & Dance
  • Previews
  • First Look
Theatre Weekly
  • Home
  • News
    • West End
    • Off-West End
    • Regional & Tours
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Digital Theatre
  • Tickets
    • Discounts
    • Musicals
    • Plays
    • Opera
    • Dance
    • Concerts
  • VAULT Festival 2023
    • VAULT Previews
    • VAULT Reviews
  • Contact Us
    • Join us as a Reviewer
No Result
View All Result
Theatre Weekly
  • Home
  • News
    • West End
    • Off-West End
    • Regional & Tours
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Digital Theatre
  • Tickets
    • Discounts
    • Musicals
    • Plays
    • Opera
    • Dance
    • Concerts
  • VAULT Festival 2023
    • VAULT Previews
    • VAULT Reviews
  • Contact Us
    • Join us as a Reviewer
No Result
View All Result
Theatre Weekly
No Result
View All Result
Home News
Cast of Family Album

Cast of Family Album

Casting announced for Alan Ayckbourn’s Family Album at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough

by Staff Writer
July 29, 2022
Reading Time: 3 mins read

Casting has been announced for Alan Ayckbourn’s latest play, Family Album, at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre this autumn.

Elizabeth Boag, Georgia Burnell, Tanya-Loretta Dee, Antony Eden and Frances Marshall will be directed by the author in this new play which tenderly chronicles the trials, tribulations and temptations of three generations of one family across 70 years in the same home.

“Now we’re leaving… all the skeletons are suddenly jumping out of their cupboards.”

       

A moving-in day, 1952. A birthday party, 1992. A moving-out day, 2022.

Join housewife Peggy (Georgia Burnell) and RAF veteran John (Antony Eden) as they proudly move into the first home they can really call their own; daughter Sandra (Frances Marshall), frantically negotiating the challenges of a 10-year-old’s birthday party without her AWOL husband; and grandaughter Alison (Elizabeth Boag) and her partner Jess (Tanya-Loretta Dee), finally escaping the house she has somewhat unwillingly inherited.

You mightalso like

Woman in Mind Jenna Russell Photo by Taylor Rettke

Full company announced to join Jenna Russell in Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman In Mind

Cast of Sirens Mercury Theatre

Mercury Theatre Announces Full Cast For Sirens

Alan Ayckbourn says: “My inspiration for Family Album was a programme on BBC4 called A House Through Time, a fascinating piece of social history. I thought, I could do this on a smaller scale – I didn’t want to go back centuries, so I started within my lifetime, in the 1950s.

“So we have three time periods layered on top of each other happening simultaneously in the same house, following a family from the grandparents in 1952, to the children in 1992 and then the grandchildren today.

“For me it’s new: I’ve used time so much – I’ve run it backwards and forwards, and I’ve run it sideways, and I’ve occasionally run it forwards and backwards simultaneously and at different speeds, but never in this way.”

Family Album is designed by Kevin Jenkins with lighting design by Jason Taylor. The Associate Sound Designer is Paul Stear. Casting is by Sarah Hughes CDG

       

Family Album can be seen in the Round at the SJT on from Friday 2 September to Saturday 1 October 2022. It will then be performed at the New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, from Tuesday 11 to Saturday 22 October, and at The Old Laundry Theatre, Bowness, from Tuesday 1 to Saturday 5 November.

Tickets for the show at the SJT, priced from £10, are available from the box office on 01723 370541 and online at www.sjt.uk.com

Staff Writer

Staff Writer

At Theatre Weekly we are dedicated to giving theatre a new audience. Our News, Reviews and Interviews are all written with the audience in mind, helping you decide what to see next. And when you have decided, our great ticket deals will help save you money too.

Related Articles

Woman in Mind Jenna Russell Photo by Taylor Rettke
News

Full company announced to join Jenna Russell in Alan Ayckbourn’s Woman In Mind

Cast of Sirens Mercury Theatre
News

Mercury Theatre Announces Full Cast For Sirens

Absurd Person Singular Rosanna Miles as Marion Graham OMara as Ronald Brewster Wright Helen Keeley as Eva Jackson
News

London Classic Theatre Announce Additional Dates For UK Tour Of Absurd Person Singular

The Girl Next Door Bill Champion Naomi Petersen ©Tony Bartholomew
Reviews

Review: The Girl Next Door at The Stephen Joseph Theatre

THE WOMAN IN BLACK. Robert Goodale Arthur Kipps and Antony Eden The Actor. Photo Tristram Kenton
News

Robert Goodale and Antony Eden Star in UK Tour of The Woman in Black

The Three Musketeers credit Mark Senior
Reviews

Review: The Three Musketeers – attempted by FoolHardy (Online)

Twitter Facebook Youtube Instagram

At Theatre Weekly we give theatre a new audience. You'll find our theatre news, theatre reviews and theatre interviews are written from an audience point of view. Our great value London theatre tickets will get you the best deal for your theatre tickets.
Theatre Weekly, 124 City Road, London EC1V 2NX
  • Join Our Community
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Contact Us
  • Advertising

Recent News

Meaghan Martin Julie Oli Higginson John Credit Lucy Hayes

Review: Smoke at Southwark Playhouse

Heathers The Musical at The Other Palace credit PamelaRaith

Heathers The Musical Tour Cast Announced

© 2022 Theatre Weekly

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Tickets
  • Digital Theatre
  • News
    • West End
    • Off West End
    • Regional & Tours
    • Digital
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • VAULT Festival 2023
    • Vault Previews
    • VAULT Reviews
  • Contact Us
    • Join us as a Reviewer

© 2022 Theatre Weekly