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Clicking on any underlined play will provide more details 
such as cast list, photographs, newspaper clippings etc. 
(Plays marked (*) were first productions)

(There are a number of past productions where we have no photographs. If any former member of the 
club can help fill any gaps, we'd love to hear from you)

A note on the reproduction of early photographs
The webmaster has endeavoured to maintain the integrity of photographs and images from earlier times by not making radical "improvements" using modern image editing programmes, thus preserving the period appearance of the original images.  

1937-39    1947-50    1951-60    1961-70    1971-80  

  1981-90    1991-00    2001-10    2011-12

2011 - 2012

2011

The Queensferry Diligence*

Scott/Richardson

About Gilbert 
(Without Sullivan)*

Devised by
Douglas Currie

2012

Incident

David Campton

All About Dickens*

Devised by Alan Richardson

2013

Cupboard Love

Jean McConnell

2001-2010

 2001 

 Wit's End  Neil Rhodes
 Memories of Childhood  Various
 Two Wits to Woo*  John Kelly
 "Saints and Sinners"
 (Forward to the Right and
  Two Wits to Woo
 Lily Ann Green/John Kelly
 2002  In the Blinking of an Eye  Jeremy Hylton Davies
 The Wizard of the North*
 (Sir Walter Scott)

 Devised by Alan Richardson

 2003

 The Wizard of the North (short version)

 Scott/Richardson

 Tusitala - Teller of Tales*
 (Robert Louis Stevenson)

 Devised by Alan Richardson

 2004  Tusitala - Teller of Tales  Stevenson/Richardson
 The Café  Neville Watchurst
 Universally Acknowledged*
 (Jane Austen)

 Devised by Alan Richardson

 2005  Two Wits to Woo  John Kelly
 Universally Acknowledged  Austen/Richardson
 Wilde by Name*
 (Oscar Wilde)

 Devised by Douglas   Currie

 2006  The Worst Day of My Life*  Alan Richardson
 The Strange Case of Conan Doyle*  Devised by John Kelly
 2007   No Nudes is Good Nudes  John Kelly
 The Inimitable Dickens*

 Devised by Alan Richardson

 2008  The Inimitable Dickens

 Devised by Alan Richardson

 J.M. Barrie - Beyond Neverland*

 Devised by Douglas Currie

 2009  Watching the Magpies  Les Clarke
 Averse to Personal Publicity*  Devised by John Kelly

 2010

 On the Outside  Leonard Morley
 Abbotsford Revisited

 Devised by Alan Richardson

1991-1999

 1991  Rock Bottom  Nina Warner Hooke
 Mixed Doubles  Various
 House Guest  Francis Durbridge
 1992  Love Is... (Anthology of Verse)  Various
 Twelfth Night  William Shakespeare
 1993  One Season's King   George MacEwan Green
 Love is... (Anthology of Verse)  Various
 Sweeney Todd

 George Dibdin Pitt 
(Adapted by Alistair Ferguson)

 1994  The Last Munro  Dave Watson
 "Hope" (A selection of Poetry)  Hope Wicksteed
 The Hollow Crown  John Barton
 1995  Burns Evening Entertainment (Poetry)  Robert Burns
 Three One Act Plays  Various
 1996  The Hollow Crown  John Barton
 Pinter Plus

 Harold Pinter (plus others)

 Mystery at Blackwater (Joint Production)

 Dan Sutherland
 1997  Silence  Harold Pinter
 Purely Pinter (5 short pieces)  Harold Pinter
 Breath of Spring (Joint Production)  Peter Coke
 1998  Perfect Partners  Alan Richardson

 "Double Scotch"
 (The Old Lady Shows her Medals and 
  Perfect Partners)

 J.M. Barrie & Alan Richardson

 Anthology of Poetry  Hope Wicksteed
 1999  The Proposal  Anton Chekhov

 Memories of Childhood (Anthology)

 Various
 Mother Figure  Alan Ayckbourn
 2000  (No Productions in this year)

1981-1990

 1981  The Dumb Waiter  Harold Pinter
 In Confidence  Peter Coke
 Dear Brutus  J.M. Barrie
 1982  The Long Christmas Dinner  Thornton Wilder
 Scots in Love (Anthology of Verse)  Various
 The Comedy of the Marks*  Alan Richardson
 There'll always be... a Ross Parker

 The music of Ross Parker
 (Devised by Cal Donald)

 Caught on the Hop  Derek Benfield
 1983  Audition for a Writer  Doris M. Day
 The Fall and Redemption of Man  John Bowen
 When We are Married  J.B. Priestley
 1984  Platform Party*  Alan Richardson
 Mixed Doubles  Various
 I Remember Mama  John Van Druten
 1985  Something in it for Cordelia   Joan Ure
 A Separate Peace  Tom Stoppard
 Come as You Are  John Mortimer
 The Hollow  Agatha Christie
 1986  Perfection City  David Shellan
 Between Mouthfuls  Alan Ayckbourn
 Love Is... (Anthology of Verse & Music)  Various
 The Imperial Nightingale  Nicholas Stuart Gray
 1987  Liddesdale  Alan Richardson
 Pride & Prejudice

  Jane Austen
  (adapted by Helen Jerome)

 Mystery at Greenfingers  J.B. Priestley
 1988  Out For the Count  Martin Downing
 Chez Shuggé - French Café (Cabaret)  Various
 Fish Out of Water  Derek Benfield
 1989  Cast off Five  Audrey McBain
 Come Fly With Us (Cabaret)  Various
 Bedroom Farce   Alan Ayckbourn
 1990  Animal Farm

 George Orwell (Dramatised by Nelson Bond) 

 The Anastasia File  Royce Royton

1971-1980

 1971  Playgoers  Arthur Pinero
 Midsummer Mink  Peter Coke
 1972  Ritual for Dolls  George McEwan Green
 Shadow in the Sun  Maurice McLoughlin
 1973  Blowing in the Wind*  John Wilson
 Quiet Weekend  Esther McCracken
 1974  Towie Castle  Gordon Bottomley
 Waiting in the Wings  Noel Coward
 1975  The Long Christmas Dinner  Thornton Wilder
 The Cage Birds  David Campton
 Bonaventure  Charlotte Hastings
 1976  The House on Sadovaya Street  Jean Christie
 Mother's Day  J.B. Priestley
 Dangerous Corner  J.B. Priestley
 1977  One Possessed  David Campton
 Farewell Ploy*  Alan Richardson
 Wild Goose Chase  Derek Benfield
 1978  Deadline Dawn  Anthony Booth
 The Tinder Box  Nicholas Stuart Gray
 1979  A Fine Gentleman  Alan Richardson
 A Victorian Evening  Various
 Confusions  Alan Ayckbourn
 1980  Gosforth's Fete  Alan Ayckbourn
 Blue Comedy  Paul Ableman
 Murder on the Nile  Agatha Christie

1961-1970

 1961  Friendly Relations  James Liggat
 1962  Separate Tables  Terence Rattigan
 1963  Sailor Beware

 Philip King & Falkland Cary

 1964  An Air for Murder

 Philip King & Falkland Cary

 1965  The Murder of Maria Marten  Brian Burton
 1966  Jane Steps Out  Kenneth Horne
 1967  The Income  Joe Corrie
 Ladies in Retirement

 Edward Percy & 
 Reginald Denham

 1968  Apple Pie  Margaret Kressman
 Champagne for Breakfast  Derek Benfield
 1969
 The Darkness  Joe Corrie
 Watch it Sailor

 Philip King & Falkland Cary

 1970  Danger Inside

 Falkland Cary & Ivan Butler

 Witch Errant  R.A. Dick

1951-1960

 1951  Blithe Spirit  Noel Coward
 Four One Act Plays  Various
 1952  Wasn't it Odd  Kenneth Horne
 The Haxtons  Hugh Walpole
 The Prince and the Valet*  Cal Donald
 1953  Lace on her Petticoat  Aimee Stuart
 1954  Charity Begins  Ireland Wood
 A Lady Mislaid  Kenneth Horne
 1955  Four One Act Plays  Various
 The Happy Prisoner  John McNair
 1956  The Old Lady Shows her Medals  J.M. Barrie
 Champagne for Breakfast  Derek Benfield
 1957  The Hollow  Agatha Christie
 Fools Rush In  Kenneth Horne
 1958  Small Hotel  Rex Frost
 1959  Down Came a Blackbird  Peter Blackmore
 The Secret Tent  Elizabeth Addyman
 1960  Dangerous Corner  J.B. Priestley
 A Phoenix too Frequent  Christopher Fry

1947-1950

 1947  The Twelve Pound Look  J.M. Barrie
 1949  The Grand Cham's Diamond  Allan Monkhouse
 The Importance of Being Earnest  Oscar Wilde
 1950  Autumn Crocus  Dodie Smith

1937-1939

1937

 Heaven on Earth

 Philip Johnson
 She Passed Through Lorraine  Lionel Hale
 1938   Call it a Day   Dodie Smith
 Four One Act Plays  Various
 Four One Act Plays  Various
1939  The Man Who Wouldn't Go to Heaven  F. Sladen-Smith
 The Ambition of Annabella Stordie  Katherine Rae
 Hay Fever  Noel Coward

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