Date Company Drama Venue Director Principal actors Notes and sources 1957 The English Stage Company Nekrassov (Jean-Paul Sartre ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 1] 1957 Henry Sherek Man of Distinction (Walter Hasenclever ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 1] 1957 Compagnie Madeleine Renaud Jean-Louis Barrault La Répétition ou l'Amour puni (Jean Anouilh ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 1] 1957 Jean-Louis Barrault Connaissance de Claudel Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 1] 1957 Stephen Mitchell The Hidden King (Jonathan Griffin ) The Assembly Hall [ 1] 1957 Edinburgh Gateway Company The Flouers o Edinburgh (Robert McLellan ) Gateway Theatre [ 1] 1957 John Gielgud The Ages of Man (William Shakespeare , anthology by George Rylands ) Freemasons' Hall [ 1] 1958 Henry Sherek The Elder Statesman (T. S. Eliot ) Royal Lyceum Theatre E. Martin Browne [ 2] 1958 Ulster Theatre Group The Bonefire (Gerard McLarnon ) Royal Lyceum Theatre Tyrone Guthrie [ 2] 1958 New Watergate Theatre Club Long Day's Journey into Night (Eugene O'Neill ) Royal Lyceum Theatre José Quintero [ 2] 1958 The Old Vic Company Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare ) Royal Lyceum Theatre Michael Benthall [ 2] 1958 The Old Vic Company Mary Stuart (Friedrich Schiller ) The Assembly Hall Peter Wood [ 2] 1958 Edinburgh Gateway Company Weir of Hermiston (R. J. B. Sellar), adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson Gateway Theatre Pamela Bain, Tom Fleming , Lennox Milne, William Simpson, Frank Wylie [ 2] 1959 The Old Vic Company The Double Dealer (William Congreve ) Royal Lyceum Theatre Michael Benthall [ 3] 1959 Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company Gammer Gurton's Needle (1575) and Fratricide Punished Royal Lyceum Theatre Bernard Hepton [ 3] 1959 The English Stage Company Cock-a-Doodle Dandy (Seán O'Casey ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 3] 1959 Wharton Productions Ltd Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaites (Sir David Lindsay ) The Assembly Hall [ 3] 1959 The Perth Theatre Company Breakspear in Gascony (Eric Linklater ) Gateway Theatre [ 3] 1959 The Dundee Repertory Company Candida (George Bernard Shaw ) Gateway Theatre [ 3] 1959 The Glasgow Citizens' Theatre The Baikie Charivari (James Bridie ) Gateway Theatre [ 3] 1960 The Wallace (Sydney Goodsir Smith ) The Assembly Hall [ 4] 1960 The Old Vic Company The Seagull (Anton Chekhov ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 4] 1960 La Compagnie Roger Planchon Les Trois Mousquetaires (Dumas ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 4] 1960 Lynoq Productions The Dream of Peter Mann (Bernard Kops ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 4] 1960 The Glasgow Citizens' Theatre Romulus the Great (Friedrich Dürrenmatt translated by Nell Moody) Gateway Theatre [ 4] 1960 Edinburgh Gateway Company Mary Stuart in Scotland (B Bjørnson translated by Elizabeth Sprigge ) Gateway Theatre [ 4] 1961 The Old Vic Company Doctor Faustus (Christopher Marlowe ) The Assembly Hall [ 5] 1961 The Old Vic Company King John (William Shakespeare ) The Assembly Hall [ 5] 1961 The English Stage Company and Oscar Lewenstein Luther (John Osborne ) Empire Theatre [ 5] 1961 The Old Vic Company Sappho (Lawrence Durrell ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 5] 1961 Jan de Blieck and L'Association Française d'Action Artistique Le Misanthrope (Molière ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 5] 1961 Jan de Blieck and L'Association Française d'Action Artistique Jean de la Lune (Marcel Achard ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 5] 1961 The English Stage Company August for the People (Nigel Dennis ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 5] 1961 Edinburgh Gateway Company Let Wives Tak' Tent (Robert Kemp after Molière ) Gateway Theatre [ 5] 1962 Royal Shakespeare Company Troilus and Cressida (William Shakespeare ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 6] 1962 Royal Shakespeare Company The Devils (John Whiting ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 6] 1962 Royal Shakespeare Company Curtmantle (Christopher Fry ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 6] 1962 Garvase Fajeon and Richard O'Donoghue The Doctor and the Devils (Dylan Thomas ) The Assembly Hall [ 6] 1962 Edinburgh Gateway Company Young Auchinleck (Robert McLellan ) Gateway Theatre [ 6] 1963 Frith Banbury The Unshaven Cheek (Ray Lawler ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 7] 1963 The 59 Theatre Company When We Dead Awaken (Henrik Ibsen translated by Michael Meyer ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 7] 1963 The English Stage Company The Ceremony (Ionesco , translated by Donald Watson) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 7] 1963 Marlan Productions The Rabbit Race (Martin Walser , translated by Ronald Duncan ) The Assembly Hall [ 7] 1963 Chichester Festival Theatre Saint Joan (George Bernard Shaw ) The Assembly Hall [ 7] 1963 Edinburgh Gateway Company All in Good Faith (Roddy MacMillan) Gateway Theatre [ 7] 1964 Michael White Hamp (John Wilson, based on a story by J L Hodson ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 8] 1964 Theatre Workshop Henry IV, Part 1 , Henry IV, Part 2 (adapted from William Shakespeare ) The Assembly Hall [ 8] 1964 Bristol Old Vic Company Henry V (William Shakespeare ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 8] 1964 Bristol Old Vic Company Love's Labour's Lost (William Shakespeare ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 8] 1964 Edinburgh Gateway Company The Golden Legend of Shults (James Bridie ) Gateway Theatre [ 8] 1965 Haizlip and Stoiber Productions The Amen Corner (James Baldwin ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 9] 1965 Il Teatro Stabile di Genova I Due Gemelli Veneziani (Carlo Goldoni ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 9] 1965 Peter Bridge Too True to Be Good (George Bernard Shaw ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 9] 1965 Traverse Festival Productions Macbeth (William Shakespeare ) Assembly Hall [ 9] 1965 Edinburgh Gateway Company The Man from Thermopylae (Ada F. Kay ) Gateway Theatre [ 9] 1966 Royal Lyceum Theatre Company The Burdies (Adaptation by Douglas Young of the play by Aristophanes ) Royal Lyceum Theatre Callum Mill, Harry Walker [ 10] 1966 Piraikon Theatron Electra (Sophocles ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 10] 1966 Piraikon Theatron Medea (Euripides ) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 10] 1966 Michael Codron A Present from the Past (John Hailstone) Royal Lyceum Theatre [ 10] 1966 Pop Theatre The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare ) The Assembly Hall [ 10] 1966 Pop Theatre The Trojan Women (English version by Ronald Duncan of the adaptation by Jean-Paul Sartre of the play by Euripides ) The Assembly Hall [ 10] 1966 The Moscow Puppets Gateway Theatre [ 10] 1966 Traverse Theatre Club Lorca (Bettina Jonič) Gateway Theatre Tom Beckley and Bettina Jonič [ 10] 1966 Polish Mime Theatre, Wrocław Jeselka , The Labyrinth , A woman's Gown , Marathon , The Dream , The Post Office Church Hill Theatre [ 10] 1966 John Ridley Productions Ltd The Wrong Side of the Moon (Nicholas Stuart Gray ) Gateway Theatre [ 10]