Skyvers
By Barry Reckord
Year staged: 1963
Opening night: 23/07/1963
Theatre Company: English Stage Company
Staged in: Royal Court Theatre
Cast Size: 10
Synopsis
Skyvers is an unflinchingly honest study of life in a London secondary school where a gang of unruly 15-year-olds are on the verge of quitting without any qualifications. A couple have work lined up: one in the docks, another with a printing firm. Brook, the school bully, seems destined for a life of petty crime and the one boy with aspirations, Cragge, has to battle against both his peers and a punitive system.
Original Cast
Chloe Ashcroft
Helen
Philip Martin
Brook
Annette Robertson
Sylvia
Nicholas Edmett
Colman
Dallas Cavell
Headmaster
John Hall
Adams
Bernard Kay
Freeman
John Woodnutt
Webster
Lance Kaufman
Jordan
David Hemmings
Cragge
Chloe Ashcroft
Helen
Philip Martin
Brook
Annette Robertson
Sylvia
Nicholas Edmett
Colman
Dallas Cavell
Headmaster
John Hall
Adams
Bernard Kay
Freeman
John Woodnutt
Webster
Lance Kaufman
Jordan
David Hemmings
Cragge
Production Team
Jocelyn Herbert
Designer
Ann Jellicoe
Director
Suzanne Glannister
Designer
Jocelyn Herbert
Designer
Ann Jellicoe
Director
Suzanne Glannister
Designer
Additional Materials
Press Reviews
Ref: THM/273/7/2/115
V&A Theatre and Performance Collection
Press Reviews
Ref: THM/273/7/2/121
V&A Theatre and Performance Collection