Relatively Speaking: Archive Images
A collection of archive material, posters, rehearsal and production images pertaining to Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking. The Archive Images page is presented in association with the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York where the Ayckbourn Archive is held. Click on an image to expand.Relatively Speaking (1965)
The first page of director Stephen Joseph's production manuscript for Meet My Father at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, in 1965. Note the substantive cuts by Stephen Joseph on this page alone, repeated throughout the manuscript.
Copyright: Haydonning Ltd
Holding: Private Collection
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Copyright: Haydonning Ltd
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The cover for the first Ayckbourn play to be published. Although Evans received the original manuscript for Relatively Speaking in 1967, it took two years to publish the play and the company destroyed the original manuscript in the process!
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Holding: Borthwick Institute For Archives
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Copyright: Evans Publishing
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Diana Bull & Robin Herford as Ginny & Greg in Alan Ayckbourn's 1977 revival of Relatively Speaking at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough. This marked the first time Alan had directed a professional production of the play.
Photographer: Alex Russell
Holding: The Bob Watson Archive
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Photographer: Alex Russell
Holding: The Bob Watson Archive
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A publicity postcard for the BBC's second television adaptation of Relatively Speaking broadcast on Christmas Eve 1989. The cast - artistically rendered here - was Michael Malone, Gwen Watford, Nigel Havers & Imogen Stubbs.
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Copyright: BBC
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The model box for the sets for Alan Ayckbourn's 2007 revival of Relatively Speaking at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough. The design for the production was by Alan's frequent collaborator, Michael Holt.
Copyright: Michael Holt
Holding: Ayckbourn Digital Archive
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Copyright: Michael Holt
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The Scene and Archive Images pages are presented in association with the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York, where the Ayckbourn Archive is held.
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