OVER A HUNDRED YEARS OF ROWNTREE PLAYERS PRODUCTIONS
TITLE
Sweet Lavender
(Before an invited audience at the De Grey Rooms and repeated in April 1912 at the Exhibition Buildings, as a public performance
Note – see reference in ‘A Potted History of The Rowntree Players’ to the gap of 11 years between the first and second productions.
Nothing But The Truth
The Cheerful Knave
Captain X
The 13th Chair
Diplomacy
Punch and Go
Locked Chest
Over-ruled
The Admirable Crichton
The Dover Road
Clothes and the Woman
The Judge of all the Earth
The Play is the Thing
The Outsider
E & OC
Amends
The Ghost of Jerry Bundler
The Man With A Load of Mischief
Ambrose Applejohn’s Adventure
Tons of Money
The Fourth Wall
It Pays To Advertise
A Damsel in Distress
The Barton Mystery
When Knights Were Bold
The Cat and The Canary
Baa, Baa Black Sheep
Michael and Mary
Marry the Girl
The Calendar
The Ghost Train
The Middle Watch
The Green Goddess
The Case of the Frightened Lady
The Young Idea
East Of Suez
HASSAN – Act 5 Scene 1 (Contribution to the programme to mark the opening of the Joseph Rowntree Theatre)
Ambrose Applejohn’s Adventure
A Murder Has Been Arranged
Berkley Square
The Midshipman
The Wrecker
The Flowers of the Forest
Trial by Jury
The Lovely Mirage
St Simeon Stylites
The Applecart
And So To Bed
La Vie Parisienne
Service
The Mocking Bird
Payment Deferred
Barnet’s Folly
The Nelson Touch
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Note – Between April 1940 and the following play there were no productions by the Society during the second world war
Spring 1600
The Watch on the Rhine
The Bread Winner
Wishing Well
National Velvet
Ladies in Retirement
This Happy Breed
The Shop at Sly Corner
The Lady from Edinburgh
Recital of Poetry & Music
Dear Brutus
Recital of Poetry & Music
The Whitehead Boy
Miss Elizabeth Bennett
The Chiltern Hundreds
Recital of Poetry & Music
Trespass
The Paragon
Recital of Poetry & Music
Yellow Sands
The Beaux Stratagem
Gaslight
The Light of Heart
Uncle Harry
The Happiest Days of Your Life
Double Door
Pygmalion
Maytime Follies (1st Edition)
You Never Can Tell
The Hollow
The Lady’s Not For Burning
Maytime Follies (2nd Edition)
Love from a Stranger
Seagulls over Sorrento
Arsenic and Old Lace
Maytime Follies (3d Edition)
Flare Path
Reluctant Heroes
The Importance of Being Ernest
Maytime Follies (4th Edition)
Simon and Laura
Bonaventure
The River Line
Maytime Follies (5th Edition)
All for Mary
Towards Zero
Separate Tables
Maytime Follies (6th Edition)
The Reluctant Debutante
Sailor Beware
Toad of Toad Hall
Brothers in Law
The Touch of Fear
The Orchard Walls
The Boy Friend (musical)
Waiting for Gillian
Dry Rot
The Diary of Anne Frank
Jubilee Follies (7th Edition)
The Secret Tent
The Devil’s Disciple
And Suddenly it’s Spring
Expresso Bongo (musical)
When We Are Married
A Christmas Carol
The Rape of the Belt
Johnny Belinda
Hobson’s Choice
Melodrama & Music Hall
The Flowering Cherry
Billy Liar
Pools Paradise
The Private Ear & The Public Eye
Five Finger Exercise
Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass
The Shop at Sly Corner
The Browning Version Harlequinade
Wolf’s Clothing
Tonight’s the Night (Revue)
The Gazebo
The Sound of Murder
The Amorous Prawn
Sweet Corn (Revue)
Chase me Comrade
Trap for a lonely man
Semi-detached
Tonight’s the Night (2nd Edition)
Boeing Boeing
Little Women
Look Back in Anger
11 + 7 (Revue)
The Mystery of the Marie Celeste
Hay Fever
Spring and Port Wine
Pride and Prejudice
Goodnight Mrs Puffin
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Gaslight
Wuthering Heights
The Militants
The Geese are Getting Fat
Suspect
The Heiress
A Letter for the General
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The Man Most Likely To
Wait Until Dark
Daughter of the Left Hand
Doctor Brent’s Household
Gigi
Once in a Blue Moon
Hedda Gabler
All in Good Time
The Day After the Fair
They Came to a City
The Servant
Relatively Speaking
Loot
Tartuffe
Suddenly at Home
Sweeney Todd the Barber
The Lion in Winter
Move Over Mrs Markham
Crown Matrimonial
Who Killed Santa Claus?
Don’t Just Lie There, Say Something
Absurd Person Singular
Anastasia
Confessions
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Lloyd George Knew My Father
The Killing of Sister George
Babes in the Wood
The Bed Before Yesterday
A Man For All Seasons
Happy Birthday
Cinderella
Celebration
A Servant to Two Masters
Ten Times Table
Dick Whittington
Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Aunt Edwina
Dame of Sark
Humpty Dumpty
This Happy Breed
The Dresser
Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime
Pinocchio
Rattle of a Simple Man
Outside Edge
The Accrington Pals
Aladdin
Season’s Greetings
Houseguest
Angels in Love
Red Riding Hood
Post Mortem Chinamen
The Real Thing – Cancelled
Under Milk Wood
Sinbad the Sailor
The Real Thing
Born in the Gardens
84 Charing Cross Road
The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Drama Society Murder Mystery
Sleeping Beauty
Pack of Lies
Plaza Suite
Round and Round the Garden
Flibberty and the Penguin
Trip to Scarborough
The Glass Menagerie
The Haunted Through Lounge
A Christmas Carol
Blythe Spirit
And a Nightingale Sang
Breezeblock Park
Robinson Crusoe
Mansfield Park
Out of Sight Out of Murder
Celebration
Roses of Eyam
Jack and the Beanstalk
Veronica’s Room
Two and Two make Sex
When We Are Married
Puss in Boots
Lock Up Your Daughters (from Rope upon Rope)
Seeds of Doubt
Salt of the Earth
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Rebecca
Deadly Nightcap
September in the Rain
Kindly Leave The Stage
Mother Goose
Jane Eyre
The Anniversary
Quality Street
Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves
Straight n’ Narrow
Mystery at Blackwater (from The Lady in White)
Out of Order
Cinderella
Because of the Lockwoods
My Friend Miss Flint
Terra Nova
Treasure Island The Panto
The Exorcism
Stepping Out
Sylvia’s Wedding
Aladdin
Steel Magnolias
Dancing at Lughnasa
Happy Families
Babes in the Wood
Pygmalion
Sandcastles
Sinbad the Sailor
Natural Causes
Pride and Preudice
Hobson’s Choice
Jack and Jill
Key For Two
The Importance of Being Ernest
Dick Whittington
Gaslight
The Railway Children
Spend Spend Spend
Jack and the Beanstalk
It's a Mad House
A Servant to Two Masters
Stags and Hens
Cinderella
Move Over Mrs Markham
An Inspector Calls
On a Night Like This
Robinson Crusoe and the Pirates
Game Plan
Noises Off
Sly Fox
Aladdin
Where There’s a Will
Thick as a Brick (musical)
Last Tango in Whitby
Sleeping Beauty
Up ‘n’ Under
Lend Me a Tennor
Heroes
Dick Whittington
Sex ‘n’ drugs ‘n Rick and Noel
How the Other Half Loves
Teechers
Mother Goose
Be My Baby
The Importance of being Earnest
Two
Babes in the Wood featuring Robin Hood
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
Bazaar and Rummage
Rowntree Players Centenary Open Night
Cinderella
Blythe Spirit
Centenary Follies
Centenary Ball
Jack and the Beanstalk
My Mother Said I Never Should
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
The 39 Steps
Snow White
Alice in Wonderland
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - the Panto
Talking Heads
Aladdin
Bedroom Farce
Talking Heads 2
Sleeping Beauty
Neville's Island
Di and Viv and Rose
Sinbad
No shows in 2020 due to Covid 19
Spider's Web
Dick Whittington
The Missing Peace
Sex, Drugs & Rick 'n' Noel
Babes in the Wood
Teechers
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PLAYWRIGHT
Pinero
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Note – see reference in ‘A Potted History of The Rowntree Players’ to the gap of 11 years between the first and second productions.
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J Montgomery
K Howard
H Swears
B Veiller
V Sardou
John Galsworthy
John Masefield
George Bernard Shaw
J M Barrie
A A Milne
G Paston
S Schofield (Review)
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Dorothy Brandon
E C Williams
E C Williams
Jacobs & Rock
A Dukes
W Hackett
Evans & Valentine
A A Milne
Hackett & Megrue
Hay & Woodhouse
W Hackett
Christopher Marlow
J Willard
Hay & Woodhouse
A A Milne
G Arthurs & A Miller
Edgar Wallace
Arnold Ridley
I Hay & S King-Hall
W Archer
Edgar Wallace
Noel Coward
W Somerset Maugham
HASSAN – Act 5 Scene 1 (Contribution to the programme to mark the opening of the Joseph Rowntree Theatre)
W Hackett
Emlyn Williams
J L Balderston
I Hay & S King-Hall
Arnold Ridley & B Merrivale
J Van Druten
Gilbert & Sullivan
P Johnson
F Sladen-Smith
George Bernard Shaw
J B Fagan
A P Herbert
Dodie Smith
Lionel Hale
Jeffrey Dell
Jan Stewer
Neil Grant
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Note – Between April 1940 and the following play there were no productions by the Society during the second world war
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Emlyn Williams
Lillian Hellman
W Somerset Maugham
E E Evans
Enid Bagnold
E Percy & R Denham
Noel Coward
E Percy
A Stuart & L Rose
J M Barrie
L Robinson
A A Milne
William Douglas Home
Emlyn Williams
R & M Pertwee
E & A Philpotts
George Farquhar
Patrick Hamilton
Emlyn Williams
T Job
John Dighton
Elizabeth McFadden
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Agatha Christie
Christopher Fry
F Vosper
H Hastings
Joseph Kesselring
Terrance Rattigan
C Morris
Oscar Wilde
A Melville
Charlotte Hastings
C Morgan
Brooke & Bannerman
Agatha Christie
Terrance Rattigan
William Douglas Home
P King & F Cary
A A Milne
Willis & Cecil
D & C Christie
R F Delderfield
Sandy Wilson
R Millar
John Chapman
F Goodrick & A Hackett
Elizabeth Addiman
George Bernard Shaw
J Popplewell
Wolfe Mankowitz & J More
J B Priestley
Charles Dickens – adapted by S Sutton
B W Levy
Elmer Harris
Harold Brighouse
R Bolt
Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall
P King
Peter Shaffer
Peter Shaffer
Lewis Carroll Adapted by V A Pearn
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E Percy
Terrence Rattigan
Kenneth Horne
A Coppel
W Fairchild
A Kimmins
Ray Cooney
R Thomas
D Turner
M Camoletti
Louisa May Alcott – adapted by P Clapham
John Osborne
L de Garde Peach
Noel Coward
Bill Naughton
Jane Austen – adapted by Helen Jerome
A Lovegrove
Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall
Patrick Hamilton
Emily Bronte – Adapted by J Davidson
N Holland
A Watkyn
Percy & Denham
R & A Getz
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – adapted by M McLoughlan
Joyce Rayburn
Frederick Knott
N Holland
E Percy
C & A Loos
J Dole
Henrik Ibsen
Bill Naughton
F Harvey
J B Priestley
R Maugham
Alan Ayckbourn
Joe Orton
Molier – adapted by Miles Malleson
Francis Durbridge
B J Burton
James Goldman
Ray Cooney and John Chapman
R Ryton
T Feeley
Michael Pertwee
Alan Ayckbourn
Alan Ayckbourn
Willis Hall
William Douglas Home
French Marcus
John Morley
Ben Travers
Robert Bolt
Mark Camoletti
John Morley
Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall
Carlo Goldoni
Alan Ayckbourn
John Crocker
Brian Clark
William Douglas Home
William Douglas Home
John Crocker
Noel Coward
Ronald Harwood
Constance Cox
John Morley
C Dyer
Richard Harris
Peter Whelan
John Morley
Alan Ayckbourn
Francis Durbridge
H Mills
John Morley
Tom Stoppard
Dylan Thomas
John Morley
Tom Stoppard
Peter Nichols
Helen Hanffe
David McGillvray & Walter Zerlin Jnr
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Norman Robbins
Hugh Whitmore
Neil Simon
Alan Ayckbourn
David Wood
Brinsley Sheriden
Tennessee Williams
David McGillvray & Walter Zerlin Jnr
Charles Dickens – adapted by Christopher Bedloe
Noel Coward
C P Taylor
Russell
John Morley
Jane Austen – Adapted by
Ian Carmichael
Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall
Don Taylor
John Morley
Ira Levin
Richard Harris & Leslie Darbon
J B Priestley
John Morley
Henry Fielding – Adapted by Bernard Miles
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Peter Gordon
John Godber
John Morley
Daphne Du Maurier
Francis Durbridge
John Godber
John Chapman
Norman Robbins
Charlotte Bronte – adapted by Constance Cox
MacIlwraith
J M Barrie
Leonard H Caddy
Jimmie Chinn
Wilkie Collins – Adapted by Constance Cox
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Ray Cooney
John Morley
Constance Cox
Donald Churchill & Peter Yelham
Ted Talley
Richard Lloyd
Don Taylor
Richard Harris
Jimmie Chinn
Richard Marlowe
R Harding
Brian Friel
John Godber
John Morley
George Bernard Shaw
Bob Larbey
John Morley
Eric Chappell
Jane Austen – Adapted by Constance Cox
Harold Brighouse
Norman Robbins
John Chapman & Freeman
Oscar Wilde
Norman Robbins
Patrick Hamilton
E Nesbit
Vivian Nicholson & Stephen Smith
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Carlo Goldoni
Willy Russell
John Chapman
J B Priestley
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Michael Frayn
Alan Frayn
Larry Gelbart
Alan P Frayn
Georges Feydeau – Adapted by Nicki Frei
John Godber
Mike Harding
Alan P Frayn
John Godber
Ken Ludwig
Gerald Sibleyras
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Cancelled
Alan Ayckbourn
John Godber
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Amanda Whittington
Oscar Wilde
Jim Cartwright
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Jim Cartwright
Sue Townsend
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Noel Coward
Social Event
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Charlotte Keatley
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John Buchan
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Lewis Carroll adapted by Brainerd Duffield
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Alan Bennett
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Alan Aykbourn
Alan Bennett
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Tim Firth
Amelia Bullman
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Agatha Christie
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Ian Donaghy, adapted by Gemma McDonald
David Tristram
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John Godber
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DATE
Feb 1912
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Note – see reference in ‘A Potted History of The Rowntree Players’ to the gap of 11 years between the first and second productions.
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Note – Between April 1940 and the following play there were no productions by the Society during the second world war
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