|
Past Productions 1921 to 1981 |
|
season |
No |
The Play |
Author |
|
1921 |
1 |
Bunch of Violets |
Sydney Grundy |
|
2 |
Jedbury Junior |
Madeleine Ryley |
|
|
3 |
Facing the Music |
Henry Darnley |
|
|
1921/22 |
4 |
Quinneys |
A A Vachell |
|
5 |
Uncle Ned |
Douglas Murray |
|
|
1922/23 |
6 |
Mr Pim Passes By |
A A Milne |
|
7 |
The Silver Box |
John Galsworthy |
|
|
1923/24 |
8 |
Tilly of Bloomsbury |
Ian Hay |
|
9 |
Nothing but the Truth |
James H Montgomery |
|
|
1924/25 |
10 |
The Opportunist |
N/A |
|
11 |
Belinda |
A.A. Milne |
|
|
1925/26 |
12 |
Lord Richard in the Pantry |
Sydney Blow and Douglas Hoare |
|
13 |
The Jeffersons |
Vincent Douglass |
|
|
1926/27 |
14 |
Eliza Comes to Stay |
H V Esmond |
|
15 |
Daddy Long Legs |
Jean Webster |
|
|
16 |
The Thirteenth Chair |
Bayard Veiller |
|
|
1927/28 |
17 |
Admirable Crichton |
J M Barrie |
|
18 |
I'll Leave It to You |
Noel Coward |
|
|
19 |
Old EngIish |
John Galsworthy |
|
|
1928/29 |
20 |
The Unfair Sex |
Eric Hudson |
|
21 |
The Rising Generation |
Wyn Weaver and Laura Leycester |
|
|
22 |
The Ship |
St John Ervine |
|
|
1929/30 |
23 |
The Farmer's Wife |
Eden Philpotts |
|
24 |
The Romantic Age |
A A Milne |
|
|
25 |
These Fathers |
N/A |
|
|
1930/31 |
26 |
Passing Brompton Road |
Jevan Brandon-Thomas |
|
27 |
Triple Bill |
Various authors |
|
|
28 |
The Man at Six |
Jack Celestin |
|
|
1931/32 |
29 |
Rookery Nook |
Ben Travers |
|
30 |
Sport of Kings |
Ian Hay |
|
|
1932/33 |
31 |
Hawk Island |
Howard Irving Young |
|
32 |
Grumpy |
Merton Hodge and Edward Percy |
|
|
1933/34 |
33 |
Bird in Hand |
John Drinkwater |
|
34 |
Mrs. Dane's Defence |
Harvey Granville-Barker |
|
|
1934/35 |
35 |
If Four Walls Told |
Edward Percy |
|
36 |
She Passed Through Lorraine |
Lionel Hale |
|
|
1935/36 |
37 |
The Distaff Side |
John Van Druten |
|
38 |
The Shining Hour |
Keith Winter |
|
|
1936/37 |
39 |
Once A Gentleman |
Armitage Owen |
|
40 |
Distinguished Gathering |
James Parish |
|
|
1937/38 |
41 |
Full House |
Ivor Novello |
|
42 |
The Unguarded Hour |
Bernard Merivale |
|
|
1938/39 |
43 |
The Wind and the Rain |
Merton Hodge |
|
44 |
The Strange Case of Blondie White |
Bernard Merivale and Jeffrey Dell |
|
|
45 |
Children to Bless You |
Doris Thorpe |
|
|
1939/40 |
|
(Chads Staged no plays during this season) |
|
|
1940/41 |
46 |
Tony Draws a Horse |
Lesley Storm |
|
1941/42 |
47 |
People in Love |
J B Priestley |
|
48 |
When We Are Married |
J B Priestley |
|
|
1942/43 |
49 |
The Two Mrs Carrolls |
Martin Vale |
|
|
50 |
Yes and No |
William Douglas Home |
|
1943/44 |
51 |
Nine Till Six |
Aimée McHardy Stuart |
|
52 |
Quiet Wedding |
Esther McCracken |
|
|
1944/45 |
53 |
Murder at the Ministry |
Falkland L Cary |
|
54 |
Spring Meeting |
John Perry and M J Farrell |
|
|
1945/46 |
55 |
Flare Path |
Terence Ratigan |
|
56 |
Living Room |
Graham Greene |
|
|
1946/47 |
57 |
Quiet Wedding |
Esther Mc Cracken |
|
58 |
This Happy Breed |
Noel Coward |
|
|
59 |
While the Sun Shines |
Terence Rattigan |
|
|
1947/48 |
60 |
Ladies in Retirement |
Edward Perry and Reginald Denham |
|
61 |
Mrs Moonlight |
Benn Levy |
|
|
62 |
Play for Ronnie |
Warren Chetham-Strode |
|
|
1948/49 |
63 |
Miranda |
Peter Blackmore |
|
64 |
Shop at Sly Corner |
Edward Percy |
|
|
65 |
The Importance of Being Earnest |
Oscar Wilde |
|
|
1949/50 |
66 |
The Guinea Pig |
Warren Chetham-Strode |
|
67 |
The Light of Heart |
Emlyn Willams |
|
|
68 |
Life with Father |
Clarence Day |
|
|
1950/51 |
69 |
I Remember Mama |
John Van Druten |
|
70 |
On Monday Next |
Philip King |
|
|
71 |
Dark Summer |
Wynyard Browne |
|
|
1951/52 |
72 |
Night was our Friend |
Michael Pertwee |
|
73 |
Bonaventure |
Charlotte Hastings |
|
|
74 |
The Circle |
W Somerset Maugham |
|
|
1952/53 |
75 |
Travellers` Joy |
Charlotte Hastings |
|
76 |
Black Chiffon |
Lesley Storm |
|
|
77 |
Here We Come Gathering |
Philip King and Anthony Armstrong |
|
|
1953/54 |
78 |
Ring Round the Moon |
Jean Anouilh |
|
79 |
Jinny Morgan |
Howard Spring |
|
|
80 |
Murder Happens |
Arnold Ridley |
|
|
1954/55 |
81 |
Spring at Marino |
Constance Cox |
|
82 |
Madame Tic Tac |
Falkland Cary & Philip Weathers |
|
|
83 |
Myself A Stranger |
Caro & Hugh Burden |
|
|
1955/56 |
84 |
Escapade |
Roger McDougall |
|
85 |
A Question of Fact |
Wynyard Browne |
|
|
86 |
Sabrina Fair |
Samuel Taylor |
|
|
1956/57 |
87 |
Witness for the Prosecution |
Agatha Christie |
|
88 |
Affairs of State |
Louis Verneuil |
|
|
89 |
Relative Affairs |
Noel Coward |
|
|
1957/58 |
90 |
My Three Angels |
Sam and Bella Spewack |
|
91 |
The Third Visitor |
Gerald Anstruther |
|
|
92 |
Cat Among the Pigeons |
Duncan Greenwood |
|
|
1958/59 |
93 |
The Reluctant Debutante |
William Douglas Home |
|
94 |
Subway in the Sky |
Ian Main |
|
|
95 |
Running Riot |
Derek Benfield |
|
|
1959/60 |
96 |
Dinner with the Family |
Jean Anouilh |
|
97 |
Dial M for Murder |
Frederick Knott |
|
|
98 |
The Giaconda Smile |
Aldous Huxley |
|
|
99 |
Breath of Spring |
Peter Coke |
|
1960/61 |
100 |
An Ideal Husband |
Oscar Wilde |
|
101 |
Anastasia |
Marcelle Maurette, adapted by Guy Bolton |
|
|
102 |
The Matchmaker |
Thornton Wilder |
|
|
103 |
Uncertain Joy |
Charlotte Hastings |
|
|
1961/62 |
104 |
The Long and the Short and the Tall |
Willis Hall |
|
105 |
Hotel Paradiso |
Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvalliers English adaptation by Peter Grenville |
|
|
106 |
Traveller Without Luggage |
Jean Anouilh |
|
|
107 |
When We Are Married |
J B Priestley |
|
|
1962/63 |
108 |
The Rainmaker |
Nathan Richard Nash |
|
109 |
An Italian Straw Hat |
Eugène Labiche & Marc Michel |
|
|
110 |
Women of Twilight |
Sylvia Rayman |
|
|
111 |
Aren't We All |
Frederick Lonsdale |
|
|
1963/64 |
112 |
Celebration |
Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall |
|
113 |
Inherit the Wind |
D H Lawrence |
|
|
114 |
Matilda Shouted Fire |
Janet Green |
|
|
115 |
Rollo |
Marcel Achard |
|
|
1964/65 |
116 |
A Kind of Folly |
Owen Holder |
|
117 |
The Bastard Country |
Anthony Coburn |
|
|
118 |
Semi-Detached |
David Turner |
|
|
119 |
Summer and Smoke |
Tennessee Williams |
|
|
1965/66 |
120 |
Man with a Load of Mischief |
Ashley Dukes |
|
121 |
Breaking Point |
William Fairchild |
|
|
122 |
Portrait of Murder |
Robert Bloomfield |
|
|
123 |
Mary Mary |
Jean Kerr |
|
|
1966/67 |
124 |
Hobson's Choice |
Harold Brighouse |
|
125 |
Look After Lulu |
Noel Coward after Georges Feydeau |
|
|
126 |
The Rehearsal |
Jean Anouilh |
|
|
127 |
The House of Bernarda Alba |
Federico Garcia Lorca |
|
|
1967/68 |
128 |
Came the Dawn |
John Aldridge |
|
129 |
Guilty Party |
George Campbell |
|
|
130 |
The Crucible |
Arthur Miller |
|
|
131 |
Gilt and Gingerbread |
Lionel Hale |
|
|
1968/69 |
132 |
Your Obedient Servant |
Diana Morgan |
|
133 |
Pygmalion |
George Bernard Shaw |
|
|
134 |
Boeing Boeing |
Marc Camoletti translated by Beverley Cross |
|
|
135 |
The House by the Lake |
Hugh Mills |
|
|
136 |
The Imaginary Invalid |
Moliere |
|
|
1969/70 |
137 |
The Daughter in Law |
D H Lawrence |
|
138 |
Come into the Garden Maud & Black Comedy |
Noel Coward & Peter Shaefer |
|
|
139 |
Out of the Crocodile |
Giles Cooper |
|
|
1970/71 |
140 |
Tom Jones |
Joan Macalpine |
|
141 |
Hay Fever |
Noel Coward |
|
|
142 |
Close the Coalhouse Door |
Alan Plater |
|
|
143 |
Halfway up the Tree |
Peter Ustinov |
|
1971/72 |
144 |
The Aspern Papers |
Story by Henry James, adapted by Michael Redgrave |
|
145 |
The Anniversary |
Bill Macilwraith |
|
|
146 |
The Lion in Winter |
James Goldman |
|
|
147 |
Let's Get A Divorce |
Angela & Robert Goldsby |
|
|
1972/73 |
148 |
All My Sons |
Arthur Miller |
|
149 |
Birds on the Wing |
Peter Yeldham |
|
|
150 |
Hadrian VII |
Peter Luke |
|
|
151 |
You Can't Take it With You |
Moss Hart and George Kaufman |
|
|
1973/74 |
152 |
Relatively Speaking |
Alan Ayckbourn |
|
153 |
A Bequest to the Nation |
Terence Rattigan |
|
|
154 |
Who Killed Santa Claus |
Terence Feely |
|
|
155 |
A Flea in Her Ear |
Georges Feydeau |
|
|
1974/75 |
156 |
Wait Until Dark |
Frederick Knott |
|
157 |
The Right Honourable Gentleman |
Michael Bradley-Dyne |
|
|
158 |
Present Laughter |
Noel Coward |
|
|
159 |
The Millionairess |
Bernard Shaw |
|
|
1975/76 |
160 |
Say Who You Are |
Keith Waterhouse |
|
161 |
Blood Wedding |
Federico Garcia Lorca |
|
|
162 |
The Wizard of Oz |
L Frank Baum |
|
|
163 |
Night Watch |
Lucille Fletcher |
|
|
164 |
The Provoked Wife |
John Vanburgh |
|
|
1976/77 |
165 |
Time and Time Again |
Alan Ayckbourn |
|
166 |
The Militants |
Norman Holland |
|
|
167 |
Listen to the Wind |
Original book by Angela Ainley Jeans revised by Peter Morris from an adaptation by Humphrey Carpenter. Music and lyrics by Vivian Ellis |
|
|
168 |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf |
Edward Albee |
|
|
169 |
The Government Inspector |
Nikolai Gogol |
|
|
1977/78 |
170 |
Everybody Loves Opal |
John Patrick |
|
171 |
Someone Waiting |
Emlyn Williams |
|
|
172 |
Toad of Toad Hall |
A A Milne |
|
|
173 |
The Killing of Sister George |
Frank Marcus |
|
|
174 |
The Stirrings in Sheffield |
Alan Cullen |
|
|
1978/79 |
175 |
Play it Again Sam |
Woody Allen |
|
176 |
Journeys End |
R C Sherriff |
|
|
177 |
Hans, the Witch and the Gobbin |
Alan Cullen |
|
|
178 |
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg |
Peter Nichols |
|
|
179 |
She Stoops to Conquer |
Oliver Goldsmith |
|
|
1979/80 |
180 |
Sleuth |
Anthony Shaffer |
|
181 |
The Merchant of Venice |
William Shakespeare |
|
|
182 |
The Owl and the Pussycat |
Bill Manhoff |
|
|
183 |
The Murder of Maria Marten |
E J Burton |
|
|
184 |
The Gingerbread Lady |
Neil Simon |
|
|
1980/81 |
185 |
The Price |
Arthur Miller |
|
|
186 |
The Sleeping Prince |
Terence Rattigan |
|
|
187 |
Oliver |
Lionel Bart |
|
|
188 |
How The Other Half Loves |
Alan Ayckbourn |
|
|
189 |
A Man for All Seasons |
Robert Bolt |
|
|
190 |
Abigail's Party |
Mike Leigh |