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)

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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.

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A publicity postcard featuring a scene from Meet My Father at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre, Scarborough, in 1965.

Photographer: Ken Boden (© Haydonning Ltd)
Holding: The Bob Watson Archive

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A flyer for the West End premiere of Relatively Speaking at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967; this would prove to be Alan Ayckbourn's breakout play.

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Richard Briers as Greg & Ceila Johnson as Sheila in the West End premiere of Relatively Speaking in 1965.

Photographer: Houston Rogers (© Houston Rogers)
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Noël Coward's telegram to Alan Ayckbourn congratulating him on the West End success of Relatively Speaking. Alan initially thought it was fake and threw it away…

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A Daily Mail report from 23 May 1967 about Queen Elizabeth II making her first visit to an Ayckbourn play with Relatively Speaking.

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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!

Copyright: Evans Publishing
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John Stride, Donald Sinden, Celia Johnson & Judy Cornwell in the BBC's 1969 television adaptation of Relatively Speaking - the first Ayckbourn play to be adapted for TV.

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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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The interior for the Playbill for the New York premiere of Relatively Speaking at the Inter Theatre in 1982.

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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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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
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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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