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The Gage Players |
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Walton-On-The-Hill - Tadworth, Surrey, UK. |
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Year |
Production |
Author |
Betchworth Festival Entry |
ProducerDirector |
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1950 |
The Chiltern Hundreds |
William Douglas Home |
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Ivor Buckley and Dorothy Rae |
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1951 |
Love in Idleness |
Terence Rattigan |
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Dorothy Rae |
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On Monday Next |
Phillip King |
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Dorothy Rae |
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1952 |
The Goldfish |
Isobel Andrews |
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Cyril Sawyer |
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Fumed Oak |
Noel Coward |
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Heather Rae |
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The Rose and Crown |
J.B.Priestley |
Festival |
Ivor Buckley |
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Queen Elizabeth slept here |
Talbot Rothwell |
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Dorothy Rae |
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1953 |
G.I. Bride |
Rae Varran |
Festival |
Dorothy Rae |
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Murder at the Vicarage |
Agatha Christie |
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Ivor Buckley |
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Little lambs eat ivy |
Noel Langley |
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Dorothy Rae |
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1954 |
Barbara's Wedding |
J.M.Barrie |
Festival |
Dorothy Rae |
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The Barton Mystery |
Walton Hacker |
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Margaret Smith |
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The Paragon |
Roland and Michael Pertwee |
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David Clatworthy |
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1955 |
A Certain Man |
Leslie Walker |
Festival |
Dorothy Rae |
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Love's a Luxury |
Guy Paxton and E.V.Hoile |
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Norman Clatworthy |
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Pygmalion |
George Bernard Shaw |
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Dorothy Rae |
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1956 |
The Skipper's Entanglement |
F. Morton Howard |
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Florence Culver |
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Browne with an "E" |
Leopold Montague |
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Vivienne Hale |
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An hour's light entertainment |
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Lilian Tyers |
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Still Life |
Noel Coward |
Festival |
Dorothy Rae |
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Tons of money |
Will Evans & Valentine |
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Norman Clatworthy |
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Rebecca |
Daphne du Maurier |
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Dorothy Rae |
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1957 |
Sganarelle |
Moliere |
Festival |
Dorothy Rae |
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Ring round the Moon |
Jean Anouilh |
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Vera Sweet |
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1958 |
The Laboratory |
David Campton |
Festival |
Dorothy Rae |
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One evening at Nero's |
A.J.Talbot |
Festival |
Ted Perrett |
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Master Dudley |
Phillip Johnson |
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Vivienne Hale |
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The White Sheep of the Family |
L.du Garde Peach & Lanthay |
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Dorothy Rae &Vivienne Hale |
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Separate tables |
Terrence Ratigan |
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Norman Clatworthy |
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1959 |
The life of Hercules (page 1) |
Thomas Cruden |
(stage cup) |
Norman latworthy |
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Book of the month |
Basil Thomas |
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Vera Sweet |
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A midsummer night's dream |
William Shakespeare |
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Dorothy Rae |
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1960 |
The farce of the Devil's bridge |
Henri Gheoh |
Festival |
Vera Sweet |
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Breath of Spring |
Peter Cooke |
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Cyril Sawyer |
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A murder has been arranged |
Emlyn Williams |
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Cyril Sawyer |
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1961 |
Mother Goose |
Dorothy Rae |
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Dorothy Rae |
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The Curious Savage |
John Patrick |
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Dorothy Rae |
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1962 |
The Neighbours |
Yves Cabrol |
Festival |
Dorothy Rae |
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Quiet weekend |
Esther McCracken |
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Mabel Alexander |
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Bell book and candle |
John van Druten |
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Mabel Alexander |
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1963 |
The pen of my Aunt |
Gordon Daviot |
Festival |
Ivor Buckley |
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The late Miss Cordell |
Phillip Johnson |
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Vera Sweet |
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April Dawn |
Phillip Johnson |
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Christopher Evans |
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1963 |
Dock Brief |
John Mortimer |
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Mary Butler |
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The Chalk Garden |
Enid Bagnold |
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Mabel Alexander |
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1964 |
The Rats |
Agatha Christie |
Festival |
Vera Sweet |
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1965 |
The Heiress |
Ruth & Augustas Goetz |
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Dorothy Rae |
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1966 |
The pigeon with the silver foot |
Pam H. Johnson & C.P. Shaw |
Festival |
Vera Sweet |
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1967 |
She stoops to conquer |
Dr. Oliver Goldsmith |
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Vera Sweet |
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Hay fever |
Noel Coward |
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Dorothy Howard |
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1968 |
Public eye Private ear |
Peter Shaffer Peter Shaffer |
Festival |
Dorothy Howard Sheila Poole |
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1969 |
Flowering cherry |
Robert Bolt |
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Geoffrey Wright |
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The irregular verb to love |
Hugh & Margaret Williams |
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Sheila Poole |
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1970 |
Boeing Boeing |
Marc Camoletti |
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Ivor Buckley |
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April Dawn |
Phillip Johnson |
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Marion Darby |
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The real Inspector Hound |
Tom Stoppard |
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Christopher Evans |
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1971 |
The proposal |
Anton Chekov |
Festival |
Geoffrey Wright |
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Eighty in the shade |
Clemence Dane |
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Margaret Hunter |
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Lady Audley's secret |
G. Hazelwood |
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Christopher Evans |
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Passion, poison & petrification |
George Bernard Shaw |
Festival |
Christopher Evans |
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1972 |
Our Town |
Thornton Wilder |
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Pat Curtis |
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1973 |
The happy marriage |
John Clements |
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Sheila Poole |
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The rape of the belt |
Benn Levy |
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Sheila Poole |
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1974 |
Knightsbridge Gladly otherwise What shall we tell Caroline |
John Mortimer N.F. Simpson John Mortimer |
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Pat Curtis Pat Curtis Pat Curtis |
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An Inspector calls |
J.B. Priestley |
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Geoffrey Wright |
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1975 |
Candlelight |
A. Revue |
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Pat Curtis |
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How the other half loves |
Alan Ayckbourn |
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Geoffrey Curtis |
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1976 |
Cabaret |
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Pat Curtis |
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Black Comedy Lumken Bumkum |
Peter Shaffer Peter Bensted |
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Pat Curtis Peter Bensted |
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1977 |
Night watch |
Lucille Fletcher |
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Gillian Lucas |
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Vivat Vivat Regina |
Robert Bolt |
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Su Johnson |
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1978 |
The pool by the Dragon Gate
A Phoenix too frequent |
E.M. Andrews
Christopher Fry |
(Stage cup) |
Margaret Hunter
Gillian Lucas |
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Dear Charles |
Alan Melville |
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Margaret Hunter |
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1979 |
The Orchestra |
Jean Anouilh |
Festival |
Gillian Lucas |
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The man most likely to |
Joyce Rayburn |
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Jean Smith |
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For better, for worse |
Arthur Watkyn |
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Robin Easther |
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1980 |
The red velvet goat Sunday costs five Pesos A kind of justice |
Josephina Niggli Josephina Niggli Margaret Wood |
Festival |
Jean Smith Gillian Lucas Gillian Lucas |
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The curse of the Werewolf |
Ken Hill |
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Margaret Hunter |
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1981 |
Gosforth's fete Confusions |
Alan Ayckbourn Alan Ayckbourn |
Festival |
Gillian Lucas Gillian Lucas |
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Lock up your daughters |
Henry Fielding |
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Gillian Lucas |
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1982 |
A murder has been arranged |
Emlyn Williams |
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Jean Smith |
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Dracula |
Ken Hill |
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Margaret Hunter |
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1983 |
The Mayor of Torontal |
Gwyneth Jones |
Festival |
Doreen Perry |
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Habeas Corpus |
Alan Bennet |
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Gillian Lucas |
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The "Beau" Stratagem |
George Farquhar |
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Margaret Hunter |
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1984 |
Random moments in a May garden |
James Saunders |
Festival |
Les Schroeder |
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Post horn gallop |
Derek Benfield |
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Tony Burch |
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Ring round the moon |
Jean Anouilh |
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Gillian Lucas |
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1985 |
Bye bye blues |
James Saunders |
Festival |
Les Schroeder |
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Trelawny of the Wells |
Arthur Pinero |
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Margaret Hunter |
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1986 |
Bedroom farce |
Alan Ayckbourn |
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Les Schroeder |
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Sweeney Todd |
Brian J. Burton |
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Gillian Lucas |
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1987 |
The diary of Anne Frank |
Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett |
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Steve Peacock |
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Outside edge |
Richard Harris |
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Jean Smith |
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1988 |
One plus one makes three |
Peter Colum |
Festival |
Gillian Lucas |
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Pack of lies |
Hugh Whitemore |
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Les Schroeder |
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The odd couple |
Neil Simon |
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Andrew Cottingham |
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1989 |
Epitaph for a hard man |
Evelyn Hood |
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Gillian Lucas |
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A chorus of disapproval |
Alan Ayckbourn |
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Gillian Lucas |
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Nightmare |
Norman Robbins |
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Jean Smith |
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1990 |
A respectable funeral |
Jimmy Chinn |
Festival |
Dave Baker |
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At the changing of the year |
Malcomn Young |
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Dave Baker |
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Ruby |
Hunchback of Notre Dame |
Ken Hill |
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Margaret Hunter |
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1991 |
Come into the garden Maud |
Noel Coward |
Festival |
Jean Smith (Best supporting actor Robin Hunter) |
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An engagement with Coward |
Noel Coward |
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Jean Smith |
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Dangerous obsession |
N.J. Crisp |
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Andrew Cottingham |
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1992 |
Teahouse of the August moon |
John Patrick |
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Gillian Lucas |
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1993 |
The Creature creeps |
Jack Sharkey |
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Marq English |
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When the cat's away |
John Mortimer & Brian Cooke |
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Sylvia Currie |
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1994 |
The cherry orchard |
Anton Chekov |
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Steve Trasler |
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1995 |
The cafe |
Neville Watchurst |
Festival |
Gillian Lucas |
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White Sheep of the Family |
L. du Garde Peach |
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Jean Smith |
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1996 |
Murder for the asking |
Derek Benfield |
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Gillian Lucas |
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The Slipper and the Rose (with The Heath Players) |
Pip Burley |
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Margaret Hunter |
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1997 |
Second from last in the sack race |
Michael Birch |
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Gillian Lucas |
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Death and the Maiden |
Georgina Reid |
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Jean Smith |
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1998 |
Clerical Errors |
Georgina Reid |
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Gill Lucas |
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Habeas Corpus |
Alan Bennett |
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Gill Lucas |
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1999 |
Tiptoe through the Tombstones |
Norman Robbins |
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Gill Lucas |
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Close to the Wind |
Richard Everett |
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Shelagh Bliss |
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2000 |
Ladies who Lunch |
Tudor Gates |
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Gill Lucas |
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Dear Octopus |
Dodie Smith |
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Margaret Hunter |
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2001 |
I Remember Mama |
John Van Droten |
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Gill Lucas |
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Jane Eyre |
Charlotte Brontė |
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Margaret Hunter |
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2002 |
The Hollow |
Agatha Christie |
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Gill Padbury |
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The Junipčre Affair |
Pip Rolls |
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Pip Rolls |
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2003 |
Local Affairs |
Richard Harris |
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Gill Lucas |
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A Christmas Carol |
Charles Dickens |
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Margaret Hunter |
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2004 |
Situation Comedy |
Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke |
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Shelagh Bliss |
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Daisy Pulls It Off |
Denise Deegan |
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Gill Lucas |
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2005 |
The Railway Children |
E Nesbit |
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Wendy Phillips |
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The Unvarnished Truth |
Royce Ryton |
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Margaret Hunter |
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2006 |
Last Tango in Walton-On-The-Hill |
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Wendy Phillips |
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Toad of Toad Hall |
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Margaret Hunter |
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2007 |
Out of Order |
Ray Cooney |
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Gill Lucas |
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2008 |
The Scottish Play |
Graham Holiday |
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Wendy Phillips |
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Vanity Fair |
Constance Cox |
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Gill Lucas |
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2009 |
Ghost Train |
Arnold Ridley |
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