Request Stop / Pieces of Eight (Premiere: Apollo) (1959)

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Request Stop (1959)

Multi-part Production	Pieces of Eight
Date from	23 September 1959
Date to	September 1959
No of Performances	Unknown
Premiere	Yes
Language	English

Venues

Apollo Victoria Theatre (Est. 1930)

23-Sep-1959

Theatre Royal, Brighton (Est. 1807)

14-Sep-1959

Advertised as 'for a week'.

Linked Productions

Getting Acquainted / Pieces of Eight (Premiere: Apollo) (1959)

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The Last to Go / Pieces of Eight (Premiere: Apollo) (1959)

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Special Offer / Pieces of Eight (Premiere: Apollo) (1959)

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Linked People

Paddy Stone (1924 - 1986)

Creative | Director

See the entry for Last to Go in this revue for all crew details

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Linked Organisations

No Linked organisations have been added to this production record yet.

Characters

Lady (Request Stop) (Age: Not specified, Female)

Unnamed character from 'Request Stop'; other non-speaking parts in this work include Small Man, Two other Women and a Man.

Woman (Request Stop) (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Fenella Fielding (1927 - 2018)

Woman (2) (Request Stop) (Age: Not specified, Female)

Performer: Josephine Blake

Woman (3) (Request Stop) (Age: Not specified, Female)

Wasn't Present

Small Man (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Peter Brett (1940)

Man (Request Stop) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Terence Theobald

Man (Request Stop) (Age: Not specified, Male)

Performer: Peter Reeve

Linked Awards

No award have been added to this production record yet.

Resources

'Mr Harold Pinter - Avant-Garde Playwright and Intimate Revue', The Times, 16 November 1959. (URL)

Type: Interview

External Link: https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS67984752/TTDA?u=leedsuni&sid=TTDA&xid=b4c03acf

This was Harold Pinter's first published interview. Subscription required to see digital version.

Sources

Pieces of Eight Production Programme

The British Library Modern Manuscripts, The Harold Pinter Archive, Add MS 88880/8/1, ff 86-90

Library archive