| Description | Material relating to the stage production One for the Road.
This series includes manuscripts that feature each of the names by which this play has been known. It also includes programmes, correspondence and publicity & media material from 1976 – 1994, and weekly financial summaries from the 1978 touring production.
Commissioned by the Manchester Contract Theatre, the play was originally entitled Tupperware Man, but due to complaints by the Tupperware Company it was altered and was performed in 1976 as Painted Veg and Parkinson, directed by Caroline Smith. It was taken on a national tour in 1978, produced by Bob Swash of the Robert Stigwood Organisation, directed by Mike Ockrent and starring Alun Armstrong, Prunella Scales, Elizabeth Estensen and Philip Jackson. During this tour, the play was known as: Dennis the Menace, Happy Returns, Slip Road, Anyone For Dennis, O Pioneer, and finally One For The Road. It was produced at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1980, directed by William Gaunt, and starring Maggie Ollerenshaw, Barry McCarthy, Roger Phillips, and Jenny Howe, and again in 1986, directed by Danny Hiller and starring Andrew Schofield, Angela Walsh, Michael Starke and Annette Ekblom. One For The Road was presented at the Lyric Theatre in the West End in 1987, produced by Bob Swash, directed by William Gaunt and starring Russ Abbot. It was most recently revived at the Royal and Derngate, Northampton, in 2012-2013.
This material was created by Willy Russell, or in the course of processes relating to the production of works by Willy Russell.
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