Semi-Detached (play)

Semi-Detached
Original poster West End transfer, 1962
Written byDavid Turner
Date premiered8 June 1962
Place premieredBelgrade Theatre, Coventry
Original languageEnglish
SettingSpring, 1962. The home of Fred Midway, Dowlihull, England.

Semi-Detached is a play written by David Turner.[1] It premiered at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry in June 1962 with Leonard Rossiter in the lead role, the production was directed by Tony Richardson.[2] In 1964, the BBC recorded a radio adaptation starring Rossiter, rebroadcast in 2016 in its series Repertory in Britain.[3] The Belgrade Theatre production transferred to London, still directed by Richardson, but with Laurence Olivier (replacing Rossiter), Eileen Atkins, John Thaw, James Bolam (replacing Ian McKellen) and Mona Washbourne.[4] The play reached Broadway in New York for a season in 1963 and a film version All the Way Up (1970), directed by James MacTaggart, starred Warren Mitchell.[5][6] The play was revived at the Chichester Festival in 1999.[7]

  1. ^ "Semi Detached", Leonard Rossiter Website
  2. ^ "Production of Semi-Detached | Theatricalia". theatricalia.com.
  3. ^ "BBC Radio 4 Extra - David Turner - Repertory in Britain: Semi-Detached".
  4. ^ "Poster | Wrigley, Denis | V&A Search the Collections". V and A Collections. November 25, 2020.
  5. ^ "Semi-Detached – Broadway Play – 1963 Revival | IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
  6. ^ "All the Way Up (1970)". BFI. Archived from the original on January 18, 2017.
  7. ^ "Cast list, Semi-Detached (1999) – Pass It On".