List of productions 1980-1984
Sadly, we don’t have enough photographs to dedicate single pages to most of these productions, so we present a full list covering the years 1980-1984 on one page.
1984
‘Pygmalion’
by George Bernard Shaw
“Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw’s feminist views. In Shaw’s hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his ‘creation’ has a mind of her own.”
‘Harlequinade’
‘Night Watch’
1983
‘The One-Eyed Monster’
‘Gods and Goloshes’
‘The Committee Meeting’
‘The Flame’
‘Pillar to post’
By John Waterhouse
‘Aladdin’
1982
‘Flare Path’
By Terence Rattigan
“Filmed as The Way to the Stars and set in the 1940s, Rattigan’s famous play concerns Patricia’s love for a film actor, despite her marriage to Flight-Lieutenant Teddy Graham. Going to the hotel to break with Teddy, followed by Peter, Pat encounters Doris, married to a Polish Count, who is one of two pilots not to return from a bombing raid. Hearing the Count’s last letter, Pat realizes how much Teddy needs her, and gives Peter his dismissal.”
‘Spiders Web’
By Agatha Christie
“Clarissa, the second wife of Henry Hailsham Brown, is adept at spinning tales of adventure for their bored diplomatic circle. When a murder takes place in her drawing room she finds live drama much harder to cope with, especially as she suspects the murderer might be her young stepdaughter Pippa. Worse still, the victim is the man who broke up Henry’s first marriage! Clarissa’s fast talking places her in some hair raising experiences, as she comes to learn that the facts are much more terrifying than fiction… “
‘Winter Entertainment: Virtue Triumphant’
1981
‘Tons of Money’
By Will Evans and Valentine
‘Edwardian Evening: Streuth & A Collier’s Tuesday Tea’
‘Ten Times Table’
By Alan Ayckbourn
“The leading lights of the village have decided to hold a pageant of local history based on a somewhat vague event, “The Massacre of the Pendon Twelve”. But there’s a young left wing teacher on the committee who decides to turn it into a rally for proletarian revolution. Committee meetings become symbolic battlefields for conflicting views – the right wing faction being led by the Chairman’s conservative wife. The event turns into a violent confrontation between the two extremes, with cataclysmic results. Police intervention brings matters to a relatively quiet conclusion, but already another pageant – Romans versus Britons – seems an attractive possibility.”
‘Winter Entertainment: Wages of Sin’
1980
‘Dracula’
‘Summer Event Entertainment’
‘See How They Run’
By Philip King
“The Rev. Lionel Toop’s wife, Penelope, is an ex-actress. While Lionel is away Clive, an actor, calls. He invites Penelope to dine in town which is out of boun’s to servicemen. He dresses in Lionel’s blacks. Miss Skillon, a parishioner, sees the couple repeating one of their theatrical scenes and draws the wrong conclusion. Matters become highly complicated when Lionel arrives, followed by the Bishop of Lax and a German POW disguised as a vicar!”
