Written and directed by

1 December - 5 January The Stephen Joseph Theatre presents Haunting Julia Written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn

The roles of Joe, Andy and Ken are played by Alan Ayckbourn

Other voices are provided by Naomi Petersen

Final mix by Paul Stear

The Julia Lukin Centre, one Sunday afternoon in November

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Haunting Julia was first performed in Scarborough at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round on 20 April 1994. Alan Ayckbourn Alan has been a playwright for over sixty years and has written more than 80 plays. These have been translated into 35 languages, are performed throughout the world and he and they have won countless awards. Nearly all were first staged at the SJT and he continues to direct and premiere his new work here, Covid permitting. He was Artistic Director for 37 years, retiring from the post in 2009; he was honoured to be appointed the SJT’s first Director Emeritus in 2018.

Since 2005, he and the SJT company have been regular visitors to the Brits Off Broadway Festival at 59E59 Theaters, New York, their work always attracting first class reviews. Ironically, his 2019 playBirthdays Past, Birthdays Present was due to be staged there in spring 2021.

Earlier this year, he directed an audio version of a new play of his Anno Domino, in which he and his wife, Heather Stoney, played all the parts. This whetted his appetite for returning to his acting roots which he hadn’t pursued for many a year apart from occasionally providing offstage voices for sound effects. Hence his interest in playing the three male parts in Haunting Julia, which he felt was asking to be heard rather than seen.

He wrote a bestselling guide to writing and directing, The Crafty Art of Playmaking and last year saw the publication of his first ‘novel’,The Divide.

He has received many Honorary Doctorates. A recipient of the Critics’ Circle Award for Services to the Arts, he has been inducted into American Theatre’s Hall of Fame and became the first British Playwright to receive both Olivier and Tony Lifetime Achievement Awards. He was knighted in 1997 for services to the theatre. The University of York aquired his archive in 2011. NaomiNaomi is delighted to be ablePeterson to return to The Stephen Joseph Theatre in some small capacity this year! Theatre includes: Birthdays Past, Birthdays Present, Joking Apart, Better Off Dead (SJT); (The Old Laundry Theatre); The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Ambassadors); I Am Telling You I’m Not Going (Pleasance); Tender Loving Care (New Theatre Royal Portsmouth); The Witches of Eastwick (Watermill); Ashes (Arcola); Angus, Thongs and Even More Snogging (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Schnapps (Lyric Hammersmith).

TV and film includes:Drifters (Bwark); Jitterman (Raedar Productions); Pop Sludge (4Music); At First Sight (Rankin Film Productions). Radio includes: Joseph Morpurgo’s Walking Tour (BBC Radio 4). Naomi is Head of Creative Development at leading London improv comedy theatre The Free Association, where she also teaches and performs.

PaulPaul has had a varied Stear career covering lighting, sound and video, working as a technician, designer and consultant in theatres, schools and special events. Lighting design: Treasure Island, Hare and Tortoise, Martha, Josie & the Chinese Elvis, Junkyard, The Night the Moonchild Smiled, Alice in Wonderland, Stig of the Dump, All Delighted People, Thumbelina, A (Scarborough) Christmas Carol, George’s Marvellous Medicine, Pinocchio, Grimm Tales, Beast & Beauties, Hansel & Gretel, Arabian Nights, Bedbug, Remote, Muddy Cows, Lost & Found, The Hoarder, Pronoun, Totally Over You, Don’t Feed the Animals, Featherboy, Alice by Heart, The Yalta Game, Elegy For A Lady, The Snow Queen, The Hunt for the Scroobious Pip, The Mikado, The Things She Sees, A Christmas Carol, Sizwe Banzi Is Dead, Jack Lear, The Miracle, Mugged, The Dummy Tree (SJT); re-lighting national tours of The New Statesman (ATG), , Hero’s Welcome, The Price, Life & Beth, Haunting Julia, Virtual Reality (SJT). Sound design: Goth Weekend, Di and Viv and Rose, The World Goes Round, Neville’s Island, Aladdin, Slipping, Screenplay, Cox & Box, Last Train To Scarborough, The Schoolmistress, Laughton, Soul Man, Boston Marriage, Moonlight & Magnolias (SJT); The Kiss, The Retirement of Tom Stevens, A Who’s Who of Flapland (Lakeside Arts Centre); Moon on a Rainbow Shawl, Beautiful Thing, Othello, 1001 Nights Now (Nottingham Playhouse); Rat Pack Confidential(Whitehall Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse/ tour); Krapp’s Last Tape (Lakeside Arts Centre/tour); Second From Last in the Sack Race (Salisbury Playhouse). Projection/video design: Henceforward…, Grubstaker, Arabian Nights, BedBug, Remote, Slipping, Screenplay, Cox & Box, The Last Train To Scarborough, Pronoun, Featherboy, Carmen, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead (SJT); To Reach the Clouds (Nottingham Playhouse). Paul lectures in sound for NODA, has led workshops in sound design for the NSDF and also co-produced the SJT Outreach Radio serial Sea Siders, broadcast on Radio Scarborough. ScreamsBy Simon Murgatroyd in the Dark “It was my attempt at a ghost story. I had long felt that, along with making audiences laugh, it must be enormously satisfying to make them jump in their seats and occasionally even scream.” - Alan Ayckbourn

Alan Ayckbourn has, as of 2020, written 84 plays. Since 1959, his work has spanned genres from tragic-comedy to thrillers, science fiction to farce.

Yet it took 35 years to write his first ghost story, and to understand why, one has to look not at the playwright’s own writing but another singularly successful ghost story.

In 1986, Alan left the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the 1987 The Woman in Black Poster Round, Scarborough, for a two-year sabbatical at the © Scarborough Theatre Trust National Theatre. He appointed Robin Herford as Artistic Director during his absence; in 1987, Robin had the idea of a ‘Christmas stocking filler’, a low-budget ghost story in the venue’s studio space.

Resident writer Stephen Mallatratt had read Susan Hill’s novella The Woman In Black and been so impressed, he had contacted the Scarborough-born author about adapting it. She was not convinced it would work, but agreed, and Stephen suggested to Robin that he might have the ideal solution.

The play was a phenomenal success and caught Alan’s attention; Susan Hill recalls him saying that there were now two great plays adapted from ghost stories, The Turn of The Screw and The Woman In Black. Perhaps naturally, the playwright wondered whether he could 1994 Haunting Julia Cover successfully turn his hand to the genre. © Scarborough Theatre Trust Alan set out with the idea to write a ‘second Woman In Black’. The playwright frequently talks about his rule of three in which he needs three good ideas to come together before he begins writing. His second idea was the relationship between parents and children, with the final idea being the nature of genius in children – in this case, musical genius – and how this affects the relationship between parent and child. Alan began writing his first ghost story but – not unusually – he found himself distracted by the characters and their lives, subtly shifting the play’s focus. “Although I set out to write a ghost story, as ever I got distracted on the way. That’s always happening. I set out sometimes to write frivolous farces, only one of the characters becomes deeply depressed or threatens to take their own life, and that’s that... So, although the ghost of Julia still haunts the play, it is really about children, their parents and what they occasionally do to each other and to innocent bystanders – all in the name of love. Not much change there.”

Haunting Julia opened on 20 April 1994 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round featuring Ian Hogg as Joe. Despite his powerful performance, it was not a completely satisfying experience, perhaps due to the fact Alan had staged it in the round when it was actually conceived to open the end-stage space at the then delayed Stephen Joseph Theatre.

It was revived by Alan in 1999 at the SJT, in the end-stage in the McCarthy, where it was far more successful. The play’s popularity was emphasised In 2008, when it was again revived at the SJT with Ian Hogg reprising his original role.

Ultimately, Alan would be the first to admit he hadn’t created a second Woman In Black, but then it would have been surprising if he had. His plays are rooted in character and it Richard Derrington in the became a play far more about the living than the dead. 1998 revival of Haunting Julia © Tony Bartholomew The playwright still fondly remembers it did achieve what he had originally set out to do, though. “It’s a play about coming to terms with sudden loss. Of the difficulty of truly understanding human genius. Of living with an abnormal talent. Of the effect that a suicide must have on those left behind. Of the guilt and the anger and the sorrow it can create in its wake. And, yes, it’s still a ghost story. And I must confess to a great thrill when, on the opening night, the whole audience did rise several inches off their seats in shock. The company for the world And, yes, someone actually screamed.” premiere of Haunting Julia in 1994 (clockwise from top left) Simon Murgatroyd is Alan Ayckbourn’s Archivist and crea- Ian Hogg, Alan Ayckbourn, tor of his official website www.alanayckbourn.net Adrian McLoughlin & Damien Goodwin © Scarborough News We would like to thank the generous donors and funders who have made our work possible over the past year

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