Tags: Theatre, Venue.
The Stephen Joseph Theatre is a theatre in the round in Scarborough North Yorkshire England that was founded by Stephen Joseph and was the first theatre in the round in Britain.In 1955 Joseph established a tiny theatre in the round on the first floor of the Public Library.The theatre flourished and in 1976 moved to a supposedly temporary home on the ground floor of the former Scarborough Boys’ High School.However a permanent home proved difficult to find and it was not until late 1988 and the closure of the local Odeon cinema by Rank Leisure that the theatre’s long-standing Artistic Director Alan Ayckbourn found a suitable venue.The new theatre known simply as the Stephen Joseph Theatre opened in 1996 and comprises two auditoria: The Round a 404-seat in the round and The McCarthy a 165-seat endstage/cinema.
