Gateway Theatre (Edinburgh)
Barrie, The Other Dear Charmer by Robert Kemp, an adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Roger Weldon, Bunty Pulls the Strings by Graham Moffat, Hame by Albert Mackie, The Herald's Not for Sale by A.B.
Paterson, the double-bill Rory Aforesaid and The Glen is Mine by John Brandane, One Traveller Returns by Moray McLaren, and The Heart is Highland by Robert Kemp.
In August 1954, the company staged a repeat production of Kemp's The Other Dear Charmer, Meg Buchanan playing the maid in place of Marjorie Dalziel, and Marillyn Gray replacing Kathryn Orr in the role of Jenny Clow.
The American theatre director Peter Potter joined the company as guest producer for the season, while James Gibson was working in London.
[8][14] Mary Helen Donald, Norman Fraser, Brian Carey, Nell Ballantyne and Pamela Bain joined the company for the 1955-56 season.
Plays produced included The Conspirators and The Scientific Singers by Robert Kemp, Waiting for Gillian by Ronald Millar, Our Maggy by D. Heddle, Heather on Fire by Moray McLaren, Beneath the Wee Red Lums and Bachelors Are Bold by Tim Watson, The Boy David by J.M.
Barrie, Susie Tangles the Strings by Graham Moffat, Come to the Fair by Robert J.B. Sellar, Ghosts and Old Gold by Reid Kennedy, and Juno and the Paycock by Seán O'Casey.
The company split in two after Muckle Ado, one part making a winter tour of the South of Scotland with A Nest of Singing Birds by Robert Kemp.
Plays produced during the 1957-58 season included Dr. Angelus by James Bridie, Drama at Inish by Lennox Robinson, The Non-Resident by Moray MacLaren, The Penny Wedding and The Daft Days by Rober Kemp, Arise, Sir Hector by R.J.B.
Other plays produced in the autumn of 1958 were Keep in a Cool Place by William Templeton, Look Back in Anger by John Osborne, and The Warld's Wonder by Alexander Reid.
Plays produced in the 1959-60 season included French Without Tears by Terence Rattigan, The Keys of Paradise by Ronald Mavor, Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring, The Master of Ballantrae, The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley, The Late Christopher Bean by Emlyn Williams, a revival of Miracle of Midnight, and an adaption of Rob Roy by Robert Kemp.
[15] The plays produced during the 1960-61 season were Mary Stuart in Scotland by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, Master John Knox by Robert Kemp, The Lesson and The New Tenant by Eugène Ionesco, The Rainmaker by N. Richard Nash, Frost at Midnight by André Obey, Listen to the Wind by Angela Ainley Jeans and Vivian Ellis.
My Three Angels by Sam and Bella Spewack, The Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder, The Comic by Maurice Fleming, and The Country Boy by John Murphy.
[14] The plays produced during the 1961-62 season were Let Wives Tak Tent by Robert Kemp, Papa is All by Patterson Greene, The Switchback by James Bridie, All My Sons by Arthur Miller, It Looks Like a Change by Donald MacLaren, The Man from Thermopylae by Ada F. Kay, Foursome Reel by Andrew Malcolm, That Old Serpent by John Prudhoe, Don't Tell Father by Harold Brooke and Kay Bannerman, Hot Summer Night by Ted Willis, The Sleepless One by Vincent Brome, and Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.
The other plays produced during the 1962-63 season were The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hašek, Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey, The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter, The Perfect Gent by Robert Kemp, Twelfth Night and Othello by William Shakespeare, Noah by André Obey, The Little Minister by J.M.
[15] The plays produced during the 1963-64 season were All in Good Faith by Roddy MacMillan, The Hypochondriack by Victor Carin, Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh, I'm Talking About Jerusalem by Arnold Wesker, Photo Finish by Peter Ustinov, Treasure Hunt by M.J. Farrell and John Perry, The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare, Tobias and the Angel by James Bridie, Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas, Schweik in the Second World War by Bertolt Brecht, Someone Waiting by Emlyn Williams, and Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw.
[14] The plays produced during the 1964-65 season were The Golden Legend of Shultz by James Bridie, The Heart is Highland by Robert Kemp, She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, The Fire Raisers by Max Frisch, Marching Song by John Whiting, Present Laughter by Noël Coward, A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, The Plough and the Stars by Seán O'Casey, The Scythe and the Sunset by Denis Johnston, Becket by Jean Anouilh, The Happiest Days of Your Life by John Dighton, Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw, The Circle by Somerset Maugham, and Journey's End by R.C.
It was bought by the university in 1988 and converted back into a theatre for the expansion of their Drama School conservatoire and the dramatic arts courses Queen Margaret offered.
[18] Many leading actors and theatre practitioners were involved in supporting the Gateway and the Drama School such as Tom Fleming, Dame Judi Dench, Fiona Shaw, Simon Callow, Sir Antony Sher, Jimmy Logan, Augusto Boal among others.
