Making Tracks: Archive Images

A collection of archive material, posters, rehearsal and production images pertaining to Alan Ayckbourn's Making Tracks. The Archive Images page is presented in association with the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York where the Ayckbourn Archive is held. Click on an image to expand.

Making Tracks (1981)

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Alan Ayckbourn's sketch for the set of the world premiere of Making Tracks at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough, in 1981. It shows the split of the stage with the recording studio taking up the majority of the lower part of the diagram with the studio's sound box at the top. The song list for the production is listed on the right.

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Correspondence from Alan Ayckbourn to his London producer Michael Codron relating to Making Tracks. Of particular note is Alan talking about his personal new 8 track recorder for his home studio - which is now the office of his Archivist. It should be noted, Alan's personal recording studio was far in advance of anything at the Scarborough theatre and most of the sound plots for his productions were recorded in his home studio from the 1970s to 1990s.

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Alan Ayckbourn (centre) and composer / Musical Director Paul Todd (right) during rehearsals for the world premiere of Making Tracks at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough, during 1981.

Photographer: Alec Russell
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The poster for the world premiere production of Making Tracks at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough, in 1981.

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Lavinia Bertram & Gillian Bevan in the world premiere of Making Tracks at the Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough, in 1981.

Photographer: Alec Russell
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A rarely seen poster design for the London premiere of Making Tracks at the Greenwich Theatre in 1983.

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The set for Greenwich Theatre's 1983 London premiere of Making Tracks showing the entire studio from the sound box to the recording studio.

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Gillian Bevan as Lace in the London premiere of Making Tracks at the Greenwich Theatre in 1983. This was the final major production of the Alan Ayckbourn and Paul Todd musical.

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