Past and Present Productions

In this section you will find a long list of past productions of Rottingdean Drama Society. This page will grow over time, as we get more information. Our aim is to include an entry for every production, but this will take time!

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2010

The Circle (currently in rehearsals...)

by W. Somerset Maugham. April 2010. Directed by Graham Stapley. Thirty years ago, Lady Kitty abandoned her husband and young son, Arnold, to run away with politicia ...

Rapunzel

by Yvonne Bednarczyk. January 2010. Directed by Audrey Pickles. ...

2009

Kafka's Dick

by Alan Bennett. October 2009. Directed by Maureen Hopkins. Set in the present-day in a suburban Yorkshire dwelling, Kafka aficionado Sydney and his wife Linda, ...

Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer. April 2009. Directed by Julian McDowell. The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in the 14th century. The tales are contained ...

Frankenstein, The Panto!

by David Swan. January 2009. Directed by Neil Border. A traditional family pantomime with a difference. Will the potty Professor Crackpot come up with a w ...

2008

Ring Round the Moon

by Jean Anouilh. October 2008. Directed by Adrian Herbert. An enchanting comedy of mistaken identity, manners and mannerisms and affairs of the heart. Witty, c ...

Steaming

by Nell Dunn. July 2008. Directed by Jo Newman. Set in a dilapidated East End turkish bath where five women of all conditions regularly meet to bath ...

Three Sisters

by Anton Chekhov. April 2008. Directed by Ronald Taylor. A play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern wo ...

Arabian Knights

by Richard Lloyd. January 2008. Directed by Gill Lake. A traditional family pantomime, with an Eastern theme, promised to be a pure Turkish Delight! ...

2007

Charley's Aunt

by Brandon Thomas. October 2007. Directed by Maureen Hoye. This classic evergreen farce is set in Oxford during Commemoration Week. The imminent visit of Char ...

Pericles

by William Shakespeare. April 2007. Directed by Edward Rayner. Pericles, the ruling Prince of Tyre, having (through no fault of his own) provoked the enmity of the ...

The Goose Girl

by John Nicholson. January 2007. Directed by Audrey Pickles. Adapted from the fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, this story has all the classic elements of a trad ...

2006

The Love on the Dole

by Roland Gow and Walter Greenwood. October 2006. Directed by Adrian Herbert. Love on the Dole was first played in 1934 and a later film version stared Deborah Kerr. Set in Salfo ...

The House on the Cliff

by George Batson. July 2006. Directed by Jo Newman. The House on the Cliff by George Batson, a popular American crime writer who sets all his plays in E ...

The Admirable Crichton

by J M Barrie. April 2006. Directed by Currently unspecified. The Admirable Crichton is a delightful comedy set in the early 1900s and described by its author as ...

Alice in Wonderland

by Mike Carter. January 2006. Directed by Graham Stapley. ...

2005

Love for Love

by William Congreve. October 2005. Directed by Currently unspecified. ...

2004

King Lear

by William Shakespeare. April 2004. Directed by Edward Rayner. The story of a father who gave all to the wrong daughters and another who put his trust in the wrong ...

1993

Daisy Pulls it Off

by Denise Duggan. June 1993. Directed by Sheila Doughty. Daisy Pulls it Off is an affectionate, keenly observed parody of life in an English boarding school ...

An Inspector Calls

by J B Priestley. April 1993. Directed by James Mitchell. Set in the year 1912, an upper crust English family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who ...

1992

Comedy of Errors

by William Shakespeare. August 1992. Directed by Anne Verrall. ...

Toad of Toad Hall

by A. A. Milne. February 1992. Directed by Jacqueline Shorter. Adapted from Kenneth Grahame's book "The Wind in The Willows". ...

1990

Billy Liar

by Keith Waterhouse. October 1990. Directed by Currently unspecified. The semi-comical story is about Billy Fisher, a working-class 19-year-old living with his parents in ...

Hiawatha

by Unspecified. June 1990. Directed by Currently unspecified. ...

Night Must Fall

by Emlyn Williams. April 1990. Directed by Currently unspecified. The play tells the story of an elderly woman in a remote part of Essex, England, who hires a young m ...