Plays we have read
2020
An Inspector Calls | JB Priestley |
Nudes In Waning Light | George Brockhill |
2019
Head of the House | Sam Bate |
A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen |
Boeing-Boeing | Marc Camoletti and Beverley Cross |
First Things First | Derek Benfield |
Haywire | Eric Chappell |
The Homecoming | Harold Pinter |
Alphabetical Order | Michael Frayn |
Glengarry Glen Ross | David Mamet |
Happy Families | John Godber |
The Secret Tent | Elizabeth Addyman |
Visiting Hour | Richard Harris |
Bedroom Farce | Alan Ayckbourn |
2018
You're Only Young Twice | Ron Aldridge |
The Profit from Murder | Frank Arthur |
Don’t Dress For Dinner | Marc Camoletti |
Olive and Hilary | Geraldine Aron |
Shadows Quietly Waiting | Douglas Arnot & Ashley King |
Murdering at the Vicarage | H Connolly |
Nothing Ever Happens in the Park | Joy Anderson |
Imaginary Lines | Reggie Oliver |
Another Time | Ronald Harwood |
Abigail's Party | Mike Leigh |
It Started With a Kiss | John Godber |
The Memory of Water | Shelagh Stephenson |
The Day After the Fair | Frank Harvey |
2017
Family Planning | Frank Vickery |
Fen | Caryl Churchill |
Straight and Narrow | Jimmie Chinn |
Winter Glory | Peter Coke |
Pull the Other One | Norman Robbins |
Butley | Simon Gray |
Busybody | Jack Popplewell |
Cuckoo | Emlyn Williams |
Death Walked In | Bettine Manktelow |
Key For Two | John Chapman and Dave Freeman |
Way Upstream | Alan Ayckbourn |
Falling Off a Log | Georgina Reid |
2016
Look Who's Talking! | Derek Benfield |
Can't Pay? Won't Pay! | Dario Fo |
Bazaar and Rummage | Sue Townsend |
Anagram of Murder | Seymour Matthews |
The Secret Rapture | David Hare |
The Haunted Through Lounge and Recessed Dining Nook at Farndale Castle | David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr |
Kindly Leave the Stage | John Chapman |
The Odd Couple | Neil Simon |
Panic Stations | Derek Benfield |
Departures | John Godber |
Happy Event | Richard Everett |
The Earl and the Pussy Cat | H Brooke & K Bannerman |
2015
Winter Glory | Peter Coke |
High Infidelity | Jack Popplewell |
Cat On the Fiddle | John Dole |
Blithe Spirit | Noel Coward |
Stepping Out | Richard Harris |
Love From a Stranger | Frank Vosper |
Cider With Rosie | Laurie Lee |
Keeping Down With the Joneses | John Chapman & Jeremy Lloyd |
Woman In Mind | Alan Ayckbourn |
Lady Audley’s Secret | Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
Murder In Play | Simon Brett |
Steaming | Nell Dunn |
2014
Cut and Run | Peter Horsler |
Family Circles | Alan Ayckbourn |
Spring and Port Wine | Bill Naughton |
Theft | Eric Chappell |
Village Fete | Peter Tinniswood |
Darling Mr London | Anthony Marriot & Bob Grant |
Bums On Seats | Michael Snelgrove |
Farndale Avenue Macbeth | McGillivray & Zerlin |
Cranford | Martyn Coleman |
Every Other Evening | Jack Popplewell & Francois Campaux |
2013
Ladies Who Lunch | Tudor Gates |
Murder With Love | Francis Durbridge |
Sitting Pretty | Amy Rosenthal |
I’ll Leave It To You | Noel Coward |
A Tomb With a View | Norman Robbins |
The Garden Party | Jimmie Chinn & Hazel Wyld |
The Gentle Hook | Francis Durbridge |
Comfort and Joy | Mike Harding |
The Reading Group | Fay Weldon |
Red Hot Cinders | Richard Tydeman |
2012
Who Dies Wins | Seymour Matthews |
No Time for Fig Leaves | Duncan Greenwood & Robert King |
Wedding Of the Year | Norman Robbins |
Suddenly At Home | Francis Durbridge |
Rope | Patrick Hamilton |
Murder In Company | Phillip King |
Flying Feathers | Derek Benfield |
Haunted | Eric Chappell |
Knowing Constance Spry | Mary Tensten |
Little Benjamin | Enid Coles |
Laying the Ghost | Simon Williams |
Don’t Dress For Dinner | Marc Camoletti |
2011
Curtain Up on Murder | Bettine Manktelow |
The Trouble With Old Lovers | Angela Huth |
Curtain Up! | Peter Quilter |
Lilies and Carnations | Liz Lees |
Heat Stroke | Eric Chappell |
A Funny Kind of Day | John McIntyre |
Breath of Spring | Peter Coke |
House Guest | Francis Durbridge |
Curtain Call | Bettine Manktelow |