Alan Ayckbourn Encyclopaedia: Dates - December
1 December: World premiere of The Musical Jigsaw Musical Play at the Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round in 1994; premiere of audio play adaptation of Haunting Julia streamed via the Stephen Joseph Theatre website in 2020.2 December: World premiere of My Sister Sadie at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 2003; world premiere of Miss Yesterday at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 2004; London premiere of Alan Ayckbourn and Paul Todd's revue Incidental Music at the Orange Tree, Richmond, in 1983.
3 December: World premiere of The Jollies at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 2002.
4 December: World premiere of The Boy Who Fell Into A Book at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 1998; world premiere of Callisto#7 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 1999.
5 December: World premiere of Alan Ayckbourn and Denis King's musical Whenever at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 2000.
6 December: World premiere of No Knowing at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 2016.
7 December: Broadway premiere of The Norman Conquests at the Morosco Theatre in 1975.
8 December: World premiere of Alan Ayckbourn's adaptation of R.B. Sheridan's A Trip To Scarborough at the Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round in 1982; West End revival of Season's Greetings at the National Theatre in 2010.
9 December: First and only amateur production of Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Jeeves at Dulwich College in 1981.
10 December: London premiere of Alan Ayckbourn and Paul Todd's revue Me, Myself And I at the Orange Tree in 1982.
11 December: World premiere of The Princess And The Mouse at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 2002.
12 December: World premiere of Callisto 5 at the Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round in 1990.
14 December: London premiere of Wildest Dreams at The Pit in 1993 - the first Ayckbourn production to be staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company; West End premiere of Alan Ayckbourn and Paul Todd's revue Mere Soup Songs at the National Theatre in 1986; radio premiere of the BBC's adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical By Jeeves in 1996.
15 December: World premiere of Alain Resnais's film adaptation of Intimate Exchanges - Smoking / No Smoking - in 1993.
16 December: World premiere of Alan Ayckbourn and Paul Todd's musical Making Tracks at the Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round in 1981; world premiere of Alan Ayckbourn and Denis King's musical Whenever at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 2008; television premiere of the BBC's adaptation of Countdown in 1972.
17 December: West End premiere of Alan Ayckbourn and Paul Todd's revue Me, Myself And I at the Orange Tree in 2003.
18 December: World premiere of Cheap & Cheerful at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in 1998.
19 December: World premiere of Dad's Tale at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre in 1960.
21 December: World premiere of Love After All at Theatre in the Round at the Library Theatre in 1959.
23 December: Alan Ayckbourn appointed Freeman of Scarborough on 1986.
24 December: Television premiere of the BBC's adaptation of Season's Greetings in 1986; television premiere of the BBC's adaptation of Relatively Speaking in 1989.
25 December: Radio premiere of the BBC's adaptation of Relatively Speaking in 1975.
26 December: World premiere of Christmas V Mastermind at the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, in 1962; radio premiere of the BBC's adaptation of Season's Greetings in 1999.
28 December: Radio premiere of the BBC's adaptation of Season's Greetings in 1985; death of Alan Ayckbourn's second agent - Tom Erhardt - in 2019.
29 December: World premiere of The Fearsome Threesome at the Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round in 1989.
31 December: Alan Ayckbourn's CBE and knighthoods are announced in 1986 and 1996 respectively; broadcast premiere of With Great Pleasure featuring Alan Ayckbourn on BBC Radio 4 in 1977; broadcast premiere of Bedroom Farce on BBC Radio 4 in 2022.
Original research for the The Alan Ayckbourn Encyclopaedia section is by Simon Murgatroyd and copyright of the author.