Alan Ayckbourn Encyclopaedia: Dates - March
2 March: Television premiere of the BBC's adaptation of Relatively Speaking in 1969; television premiere of the BBC's adaption of The 7 Deadly Virtues - retitled Deadly Virtues - in 1984.3 March: West End premiere of Things We Do For Love at the Gielgud Theatre in 1998.
4 March: West End premiere of Mr A's Amazing Maze Plays at the National Theatre in 1993.
5 March: London premiere of Tim Firth's The Safari Party at Hampstead Theatre in 2003 - the final not self-penned play directed by Alan Ayckbourn; radio premiere of the BBC's adaptation of Absurd Person Singular in 1977.
6 March: Absurd Person Singular closes on Broadway in 1976 following a record-breaking run.
7 March: West End premiere of Joking Apart at the Globe Theatre in 1978; presented with the Lawrence Olivier Awards Special Award in 2009; Alan Ayckbourn's production of Herb Gardner's Conversations With My Father transfers to the Old Vic, London, in 1995.
10 March: Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta opens at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, in 1964 marking Alan Ayckbourn's final acting role with the company.
13 March: West End premiere of Invisible Friends at the National Theatre in 1991.
14 March: London premiere of Making Tracks at Greenwich Theatre in 1983; radio premiere of the BBC's adaptation of The Norman Conquests in 2015.
16 March: West End premiere of Bedroom Farce at the National Theatre in 1977 - this marked Alan Ayckbourn's directing debut in London; Wildest Dreams transfers to the RSC's Swan Theatre in 1994.
18 March: First acting role at the Leatherhead Theatre Club, playing Roger in Terence Rattigan's She Stoops To Conquer in 1957.
22 March: World premiere of Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jeeves at the Bristol Hippodrome in 1975.
23 March: Following HM Government advice, the Stephen Joseph Theatre closes and cancels its entire summer schedule - including the world premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's Truth Will Out - in response to the Covid-19 pandemic during 2020.
24 March: London revival of Taking Steps at the Orange Tree in 2010; West End revival of Bedroom Farce at the Duke Of York's Theatre in 2010.
28 March: The first grand marathon of Intimate Exchanges is launched at the Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round in 1983 - during two weeks, all 16 variations of the play are performed; broadcast premiere of HARDtalk featuring Alan Ayckbourn on BBC News in 2012.
29 March: West End premiere of Relatively Speaking at the Duke Of York's Theatre in 1967; West End premiere of Season's Greetings at the Apollo Theatre in 1982; Broadway premiere of Bedroom Farce at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in 1979.
31 March: Steps down as Artistic Director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 2009 after 37 years in the role; UK premiere of Alain Resnais's film Private Fears In Public Places (Coeurs) in 2007; West End revival of How The Other Half Loves in 2016.
Original research for the The Alan Ayckbourn Encyclopaedia section is by Simon Murgatroyd and copyright of the author.