The Blackburn Drama Club is an English amateur dramatics organisation located in Blackburn, Lancashire

Lancashire

Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

. It has been producing plays

Play (theatre)

A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. There are rare dramatists, notably George Bernard Shaw, who have had little preference whether their plays were performed...

 for 63 years . In that time, the Drama Club has staged over 230 productions.

Performances are held at the Thwaites Empire Theatre, which is located in Ewood, Blackburn.

History

Blackburn Drama Club was formed in 1944. A group of ten enthusiasts decided to bring back amateur dramatics to Blackburn after the corruption of the activity following the war.

The Drama Club made its debut with a production of Gaslight at the YMCA Hall, three weeks after the organisation gathered for their first meeting. It was February 1944.

In November 1964, the stage and props were destroyed by a fire. The club moved on to a new venue, the Technical College, in which the Drama Club staged over 140 performances until moving to the newly refurbished Thwaites Empire Theatre in 2002.

The Drama Club's first production at this venue was Bouncers. Over 1,000 people attended the performance, a significant rise in audience members since the 1960s.

Present day

The Drama Club currently stages around four productions a year in the Thwaites Empire Theatre in Blackburn. The time that spans these productions makes up a 'season'. At the start of a season, usually in the months of June and July, play readings and auditions are held at the theatre. Rehearsals usually begin six weeks before a production.

New members often come across the Drama Club via their website, which can be accessed below, or local directories and tourism adverts. To become a member, subscription currently stands at £10 a year.

As well as stage productions, the club also do a variety of other dramatisations, such as outdoor events, radio plays (mainly for BBC Radio Lancashire

BBC Radio Lancashire

BBC Radio Lancashire is the BBC Local Radio service for the county of Lancashire, in North West England. It began as BBC Radio Blackburn on 26 January 1971 on 96.4FM, then adding 854 kHz AM in 1972 and changing to its current name on 4 July 1981...

) and amateur films.

Past productions

1944

• Gas Light
• The Torch Bearers
• Ghosts
  Ghosts (play)
  Ghosts is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It was written in 1881 and first staged in 1882.Like many of Ibsen's better-known plays, Ghosts is a scathing commentary on 19th century morality....
  
  

1944-45

• Robert's Wife
• When We Are Married
  When We Are Married
  When We Are Married is a 1938 play by English dramatist, J. B. Priestley. It is the first play ever to be televised unedited from a theatre.-Productions:* 1938 World premiere, London, England* 16 November 1938 BBC live telecast...
  
  
• The Silver Cord
• Tobias and the Angel
  Tobias and the Angel
  Tobias and the Angel is the title given to paintings and other artworks depicting a scene in which Tobias, son of Tobit, meets an angel without realising he is an angel and is then instructed by the angel what to do with a giant fish he catches , including:-Paintings:*"Tobias and the Angel", print...
  
  

1945-46

• Star in Eclipse
• Candida
  Candida (play)
  Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was first published in 1898, as part of his Plays Pleasant. The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who tries to win Candida's affections. The play questions Victorian notions...
  
  
• The Two Mrs Carrolls

1946-47

• While the Sun Shines
  While the Sun Shines
  While the Sun Shines is a 1947 British comedy film directed by Anthony Asquith. It was based on Terrence Rattigan's 1943 play of the same name. -Plot:...
  
  
• The Little Foxes
  The Little Foxes
  The Little Foxes is a 1939 play by Lillian Hellman. Its title comes from Chapter 2, Verse 15 in the Song of Solomon in the King James version of the Bible, which reads, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes." Set in a small town in Alabama in...
  
  
• Watch on the Rhine
  Watch on the Rhine
  Watch on the Rhine is a 1943 American drama film directed by Herman Shumlin. The screenplay by Dashiell Hammett is based on the 1941 play of the same title by Lillian Hellman.-Plot:...
  
  

1947-48

• The Women
• Rope
  Rope (play)
  Rope is a 1929 British play by Patrick Hamilton. In formal terms, it is a well-made play with a three-act dramatic structure that adheres to the classical unities. Its action is continuous, punctuated only by the curtain fall at the end of each act. It may also be considered a thriller whose...
  
  
• The Light of Heart
• See How They Run
• The Ranks of Tuscany
• Dance of Atonement

1948-49

• The Skin Game
  The Skin Game (play)
  The Skin Game is a play by the John Galsworthy. It was first performed at the St Martins Theatre, London in 1920. It has been made into a film twice, in 1921 and in 1931. The latter adapatation was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.-Plot:...
  
  
• Time and the Conways
  Time and the Conways
  Time and the Conways is a British play written by J. B. Priestley in 1937 illustrating J. W. Dunne's Theory Of Time through the experience of a moneyed Yorkshire family, the Conways, over a period of nineteen years from 1919 to 1937...
  
  
• Duet for Two Hands
• The Father

1949-50

• Miranda
• Made in Heaven
• They Walk Alone
• The Lady From Edinburgh
• Twentieth Century Lullaby
• A Marriage Has Been Disarranged
• The Voe is Blue

1950-51

• The Chiltern Hundreds
  The Chiltern Hundreds (play)
  The Chiltern Hundreds is a 1947 stage comedy by William Douglas-Home. It was adapted as a film in 1949, under the same title. Revivals of the play have included a 1999 production at the Vaudeville Theatre starring Edward Fox.-Sources:...
  
  
• Message for Margaret
• The Sacred Flame
  The Sacred Flame (play)
  The Sacred Flame was William Somerset Maugham's 21st play, written at the age of 54. Maugham dedicated the publication to his friend Messmore Kendall....
  
  
• The Cure for Love

1951-52

• Little Lambs Eat Ivy
• Mrs Moonlight
• Rain on the Just
  Rain On The Just
  Rain On The Just is a play by Peter Watling which premiered in 1948 at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.The cast included Marie Ney, Eileen Peel, Michael Denison, Geoffrey Keen, Dulcie Gray and Edgar Norfolk. The show made its London debut later that year at the Old Vic with much of the same...
  
  
• By Candle Light
• Ladies in Retirement
  Ladies in Retirement
  Ladies in Retirement is a 1941 film starring Ida Lupino and Louis Hayward. It is based on a 1940 Broadway play of the same title by Reginald Denham and Edward Percy which starred Flora Robson in the lead role....
  
  

1953-54

• Don't Listen Ladies
• Laura
• Ring Round the Moon
  Ring Round the Moon
  Ring Round the Moon is a 1950 adaptation by the English dramatist Christopher Fry of Jean Anouilh's Invitation to the Castle . Peter Brook commissioned Fry to adapt the play and the first production of Ring Round the Moon was given at the Globe Theatre...
  
  
• Too Clever for Love
• Corinth House

1954-55

• Love in Idleness
• Dark Summer
• Relative Values
  Relative Values (play)
  Relative Values is a three-act comedy by Noël Coward. A satire of snobbery in all its guises, it deals with the clash of cultures between Hollywood stars and the English aristocracy, and with "the ancient and inaccurate assumption that, as we are equal in the eyes of God, we should be equal in the...
  
  
• Love's a Luxury

1955-56

• Affairs of State
  Affairs of State
  Affairs of State is a 1950 Broadway comedy written and directed by Louis Verneuil. It opened at the Royale Theatre, then moved to the Music Box Theatre and played for a total of 610 performances.It was the first play Verneuil wrote in English.-Cast:...
  
  
• Waters of the Moon
• The Noble Spaniard
• The Gift

1955-57

• The Happy Marriage
• A Question of Fact
• Someone Waiting
• The Happy Prisoner

1957-58

• The Whole Truth
• Book of the Month
• All for Mary
  All for Mary
  All for Mary is a 1955 UK Comedy Film brought to the screen by Paul Soskin Productions for The Rank Organisation. It was based on a play written by the English husband and wife team of Kay Bannerman and Harold Brooke. It was directed by Wendy Toye, produced by Paul Soskin with the screenplay by...
  
  
• Uncertain Joy

1958-59

• Heaven and Charing Cross
• Dear Charles
• The Rose Without a Thorn
• Sailor Beware
  Sailor Beware
  Sailor Beware is a 1951 comedy film starring the comedy team of Martin and Lewis and is an adaption of a 1933 Kenyon Nicholson play of the same name. It was released on February 9, 1952 by Paramount Pictures...
  
  

1959-60

• Treasure Hunt
  Treasure hunt
  A treasure hunt is one of many different types of games which can have one or more players who try to find hidden articles, locations or places by using a series of clues. This is a fictional activity; treasure hunting can also be a real life activity. Treasure hunt games may be an indoor or...
  
  
• The Secret Tent
  The Secret Tent
  The Secret Tent is a 1956 film directed by Don Chaffey. It stars Donald Gray and Andrée Melly.-Cast:*Donald Gray as Chris Martyn*Andree Melly as Ruth Martyn*Jean Anderson as Mrs. Martyn*Sonia Dresdel as Miss Mitchum-Browne...
  
  
• Red Letter Day
  Red letter day
  A red letter day is any day of special significance.The term originates from Medieval church calendars. Illuminated manuscripts often marked initial capitals and highlighted words in red ink, known as rubrics...
  
  
• Wind of Heaven

1960-61

• Running Riot
  Running Riot
  Running Riot is a 2006 South African comedy film directed by Koos Roets and stars the late Bill Flynn. Cast includes Paul Slab, Vanessa Harris, Robin Smith, Nazli George, Brendan Gearly and Joey Rasdien. It is based on a play by Paul "Slab" Slabolepsky....
  
  
• The Man Upstairs
  The Man Upstairs
  The Man Upstairs is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 23 January 1914 by Methuen & Co., London. Most of the stories had previously appeared in magazines, generally Strand Magazine in the UK and Cosmopolitan or Collier's Weekly in the United...
  
  
• The Witch
  The Witch
  The Witch is a Jacobean play, a tragicomedy written by Thomas Middleton. The play was acted by the King's Men at the Blackfriars Theatre. It is thought to have been written sometime between 1609 and 1616; it was not printed in its own era, and existed only in manuscript until it was published by...
  
  
• Nude with Violin
  Nude with Violin
  Nude with Violin is a play by Noël Coward. A light comedy of manners, the play is Coward's satire on "Modern Art" and the value placed on art....
  
  

1961-62

• My Flesh, My Blood
• Break Out
• Mary Stuart
  Maria Stuart (play)
  Mary Stuart , a play by Friedrich Schiller, depicts the last days of Mary, Queen of Scots. The play consists of five acts, each divided into several scenes. The play had its première in Weimar, Germany on 14 June 1800...
  
  
• Wolf's Clothing
  Wolf's Clothing
  Wolf's Clothing is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Andrew Marton and starring Claude Hulbert, Gordon Harker and Lilli Palmer. A blundering group of secret agents mistake a Foreign Office official for a dangerous international assasain.-Cast:...
  
  

1962-63

• My Three Angels
  My Three Angels
  My Three Angels is a comedy play by Samuel and Bella Spewack. The show is based on the French play La Cuisine Des Anges by Albert Husson, and is their only play that is regularly performed in repertory theater...
  
  
• Flowering Cherry
• The Innocents
  The Innocents (play)
  The Innocents is a 1976 play written by William Archiblad. The show opened at the Morosco Theatre on October 21, 1976 and closed on October 30, 1976 after 12 performances.-Setting:...
  
  
• Roar Like a Dove

1963-64

• The Amorous Prawn
  The Amorous Prawn
  The Amorous Prawn is a 1962 British comedy film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring Ian Carmichael, Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker. General Fitzadam receives his final posting in the remote Scottish Highlands, where his wife decides to run their residence as a hotel for wealthy Americans...
  
  
• The Return
  The Return
  -Books:*The Return , the forty-eighth book in the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate*The Return , a 2007 novel by Håkan Nesser, first published in Sweden in 1995*The Return , a 1997 novel by William Shatner...
  
  
• Blithe Spirit
  Blithe Spirit (play)
  Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noël Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" . The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to...
  
  
• Billy Liar
  Billy Liar
  Billy Liar is a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse, which was later adapted into a play, a film, a musical and a TV series. The work has inspired and featured in a number of popular songs....
  
  

1964-65

• Dear Delinquent
• Trespass
• Trial and Error
• Rape of the Belt

1965-66

• Semi-Detached
  Semi-Detached (play)
  Semi-Detached is a play written by David Turner. It was premiered at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry in June 1962 with Leonard Rossiter in the lead role and directed by Tony Richardson....
  
  
• The Lark
• Doctor in the House
  Doctor in the House
  Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film, directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the novel by Gordon, and follows a group of students through medical school.It was the most popular box office...
  
  
• Rebecca

1966-67

• The Wooden Dish
• Present Laughter
  Present Laughter
  Present Laughter is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1939 and first staged in 1942 on tour, alternating with his lower middle-class domestic drama This Happy Breed...
  
  
• Trap for a Lonely Man

1967-68

• The Dock Brief
  The Dock Brief
  The Dock Brief is a 1962 black-and-white British legal satire directed by James Hill, starring Peter Sellers and Richard Attenborough, and based on the play of the same name written by John Mortimer .Richard Attenborough was nominated for the 1963 BAFTA Award for best British Actor for his...
  
  and A Resounding Tinkle
• Simon and Laura
  Simon and Laura
  Simon and Laura is a 1955 British drama film directed by Muriel Box and starring Peter Finch, Kay Kendall and Muriel Pavlow. A married couple are hired for a television programme to portray domestic happiness, although in real life their marriage is breaking down.-Cast:* Peter Finch - Simon Foster*...
  
  
• The Heiress
  The Heiress
  The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film. It was written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 play of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as...
  
  
• All in Good Time

1968-69

• Barefoot in the Park
  Barefoot in the Park
  This article is about the Broadway production. For the film adaptation see Barefoot in the Park .Barefoot in the Park is a romantic comedy by Neil Simon. The original Broadway production, directed by Mike Nichols, opened October 23, 1963, with the four lead roles taken by actors Elizabeth Ashley ,...
  
  
• Double Image
  Double Image
  Double Image is a novel by David Morrell. It was published in 1998 by Warner Books.- Plot summary :Double Image is a noir thriller from Morrell set in modern-day Los Angeles. It tells the story of a war photographer named Mitch Coltrane, who decides to give up photographing atrocities after an...
  
  
• The Chalk Garden
  The Chalk Garden
  The Chalk Garden is a play by Enid Bagnold that premiered on Broadway in 1955. The play tells the story of Mrs. St Maugham and her granddaughter Laurel, a disturbed child under Miss Madrigal's care. The setting of the play was inspired by Bagnold's own garden at North End House in Rottingdean, near...
  
  
• The Love Match
  The Love Match
  The Love Match is a 1955 British comedy film directed by David Paltenghi and starring Arthur Askey, Glenn Melvyn, Thora Hird and Shirley Eaton. Two football-mad railway engine drivers are desperate to get back in time to see a match. It was based on a play by Glenn Melvyn.-Cast:* Arthur Askey ... ...
  
  

1969-70

• This Was a Woman
• Love and Kisses
• The House on the Cliff
  The House on the Cliff
  The House On The Cliff is the second book in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap. The book ranks 72nd on the Publishers Weekly's All-Time Bestselling Children's Book List in the United States with 1,712,433 copies sold...
  
  
• Hindle Wakes

1970-71

• Shadow in the Sun
• Relatively Speaking
  Relatively Speaking
  Relatively Speaking was a game show that aired in syndication from September 5, 1988 to June 23, 1989. The series was hosted by comedian John Byner, with John Harlan announcing....
  
  
• The Matchmaker
  The Matchmaker
  The Matchmaker is a play by Thornton Wilder.The play has a long and colorful history. John Oxenford's 1835 one-act farce A Day Well Spent had been extended into a full-length play entitled Einen Jux will er sich machen by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy in 1842...
  
  
• Make Me a Widow

1971-72

• All Things Bright and Beautiful
  All Things Bright and Beautiful
  All Things Bright and Beautiful is an Anglican hymn, also popular with other Christian denominations.The piece can be sung to several melodies, in particular the 17th-century English melody "Royal Oak", adapted by Martin Shaw, and "Bright and Beautiful" by William Henry Monk...
  
  
• Settled Out of Court
  Settled Out of Court
  Settled Out of Court is a 1925 British silent drama film directed by George A. Cooper and starring Fay Compton, Jack Buchanan and Jeanne De Casalis...
  
  
• Let's All Go Down the Strand
• The Diary of Anne Frank

1972-73

• Wild Goose Chase
  Wild goose chase
  A wild-goose chase or wild goose chase may refer to:* A wild-goose chase, a futile search or fruitless errand, a task inordinately complex relative to its outcome...
  
  
• Who Killed Santa Claus?
• Hobson's Choice
• The Anniversary
  The Anniversary
  The Anniversary was an American band formed in Lawrence, Kansas in 1997 by Josh Berwanger, James David, Christian Jankowski, Adrianne Verhoeven and Justin Roelofs. The Anniversary was the solidification of a line-up that had been in flux for a year...
  
  

1973-74

• Johnny Belinda
• Wait Until Dark
  Wait Until Dark
  Wait Until Dark is a play by Frederick Knott.-Synopsis:Susy Hendrix is a blind Greenwich Village housewife who becomes the target of three con-men searching for the heroin hidden in a doll, which her husband Sam innocently transported from Canada as a favor to a woman who has since been murdered...
  
  
• Celebration
  Celebration (play)
  Celebration is a play by British playwright Harold Pinter. It was first presented as a double-bill with Pinter's first play The Room on Thursday 16 March 2000 at the Almeida Theatre in London.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Duet for Two Hands

1974-75

• How the Other Half Loves
• The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
  A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
  A Day in the Death of Joe Egg is a 1967 play by English playwright Peter Nichols, first staged at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland before transferring to London's West End theatres in 1968.-Plot summary:Characters* Bri* Grace* Joe* Freddie...
  
  
• A Policy of Love

1975-76

• Love on the Dole
  Love on the Dole
  Love on the Dole is a novel by Walter Greenwood, about working class poverty in 1930s Northern England. It has been made into both a play and a film.-The novel:...
  
  
• Persons Unknown
  Persons Unknown
  Persons Unknown is an American mystery drama television mini-series that revolves around strangers who are imprisoned inside a small ghost town. The thirteen-episode summer series premiered on June 7, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. on NBC. On June 30, NBC moved the show to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday from its Monday...
  
  
• The Price
  The Price (play)
  The Price is a 1968 play by Arthur Miller. It is a piece about family dynamics, the price of furniture and the price of one's decisions. The play opened on Broadway at the Morosco Theatre on February 7, 1968 where it played until the production moved to the 46th Street Theatre on November 18, 1968....
  
  
• Gaslight

1976-77

• Ann Veronica
  Ann Veronica
  Ann Veronica is a novel by H.G. Wells first published in 1909. The book deals with contemporary political issues, concentrating specifically on feminist issues...
  
  
• Accolade
  Accolade (play)
  Accolade is a 1950 play by the Welsh playwright Emlyn Williams. Accolade was first presented in London by H. M. Tennent Ltd, in association with Leland Hayward and Joshua Logan, at the Aldwych Theatre, on September 7, 1950, with Emlyn Williams as Will Trenting and a cast including Diana Churchill,...
  
  
• Move Over, Mrs Markham
• Dangerous Corner
  Dangerous Corner
  Dangerous Corner was the first play by the English writer J. B. Priestley. It was premiered in May 1932 by Tyrone Guthrie at the Lyric Theatre, London, and filmed in 1934 by Phil Rosen....
  
  

1977-78

• The Crucible
  The Crucible
  The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...
  
  
• Woman in a Dressing Gown
  Woman in a Dressing Gown
  Woman in a Dressing Gown is a 1957 British film directed by J. Lee Thompson. Yvonne Mitchell won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival....
  
  
• The Killing of Sister George
  The Killing of Sister George
  The Killing of Sister George is a 1964 play by Frank Marcus that was adapted as a 1968 film directed by Robert Aldrich.- Stage version :Sister George is a beloved character in the popular radio series Applehurst, a nurse who ministers to the medical needs and personal problems of the local villagers...
  
  
• Nude with Violin
  Nude with Violin
  Nude with Violin is a play by Noël Coward. A light comedy of manners, the play is Coward's satire on "Modern Art" and the value placed on art....
  
  

1978-79

• Murder with Love
• Zack
  Zack (play)
  Zack is a 1920 play by British playwright Harold Brighouse. It was one of several of Brighouse's plays performed by the Manchester's Gaiety Theatre....
  
  
• Rookery Nook
  Rookery Nook (play)
  Rookery Nook is a 1926 British comedic play written by Ben Travers. It was based by Travers on his own 1923 novel Rookery Nook, about a series of confusions over an unoccupied house. It was first performed at the Aldwych Theatre in London, and became one of the Aldwych Farces.-Adaptations:In 1930 a...
  
  
• Separate Tables
  Separate Tables
  Separate Tables is the collective name of two one-act plays written by Sir Terence Rattigan, both taking place in the Beauregard Private Hotel, Bournemouth, a seaside town on the south coast of England. The first play, entitled "Table by the Window", focuses on the troubled relationship between a...
  
  

1979-80

• Come Blow Your Horn
  Come Blow Your Horn
  Come Blow Your Horn was Neil Simon's first play, which premiered in the United States in 1961 and had a London production in 1962 at the Prince of Wales Theatre.-Act Summaries:Time: The Present...
  
  
• Time and the Conways
  Time and the Conways
  Time and the Conways is a British play written by J. B. Priestley in 1937 illustrating J. W. Dunne's Theory Of Time through the experience of a moneyed Yorkshire family, the Conways, over a period of nineteen years from 1919 to 1937...
  
  
• Murder at the Vicarage
• I'm Talking About Jerusalem

1980-81

• Oh, What a Lovely War!
  Oh, What a Lovely War!
  Oh, What a Lovely War! is an epic musical originated by Charles Chilton as a radio play, The Long Long Trail in December 1961, and transferred to stage by Gerry Raffles in partnership with Joan Littlewood and her Theatre Workshop in 1963...
  
  
• The Farm
• Bedroom Farce
  Bedroom farce
  A bedroom farce or sex farce is a type of light comedy, centered on the sexual pairings and recombinations of characters as they move through improbable plots and slamming doors...
  
  
• Pygmalion
  Pygmalion (play)
  Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts is a play by Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of...
  
  

1981-82

• The Winslow Boy
  The Winslow Boy
  thumb|1st edition cover The Winslow Boy is an English play from 1946 by Terence Rattigan based on an actual incident in the Edwardian era, which took place at the Royal Naval College, Osborne.-Performance History:...
  
  
• Death on the Nile
  Death on the Nile
  Death on the Nile is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 1, 1937 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence and the US edition at $2.00.The book...
  
  
• Shut Your Eyes and Think of England
• Saturday Night at the Crown

1982-83

• Cat Among the Pigeons
  Cat Among the Pigeons
  Cat Among the Pigeons is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on November 2, 1959, and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1960 with a copyright date of 1959...
  
  
• Bell, Book and Candle
  Bell, Book and Candle
  Bell, Book and Candle is a romantic comedy directed by Richard Quine based on the hit Broadway play by John Van Druten. It starred James Stewart and Kim Novak in their second on-screen pairing . The film, adapted by Daniel Taradash, was Stewart's last film as a romantic lead...
  
  
• Ring Round the Moon
  Ring Round the Moon
  Ring Round the Moon is a 1950 adaptation by the English dramatist Christopher Fry of Jean Anouilh's Invitation to the Castle . Peter Brook commissioned Fry to adapt the play and the first production of Ring Round the Moon was given at the Globe Theatre...
  
  
• Murder Mistaken

1983-84

• The Accrington Pals
  The Accrington Pals (play)
  The Accrington Pals is a fictional 1982 play by Peter Whelan. It is based on the Accrington Pals unit in the First World War and contrasts its life at the front and experiences in the 1916 Battle of the Somme with the women left behind in Accrington....
  
  
• The Happiest of the Three
• Say Goodnight to Grandma
• Outside Edge
  Outside Edge
  Outside Edge is a play by Richard Harris about a cricket team trying to win a game of cricket whilst sorting out their various marital problems.-Plot:...
  
  

1984-85

• Therese
• When We Are Married
  When We Are Married
  When We Are Married is a 1938 play by English dramatist, J. B. Priestley. It is the first play ever to be televised unedited from a theatre.-Productions:* 1938 World premiere, London, England* 16 November 1938 BBC live telecast...
  
  

1985-86

• Table Manners
  Table manners
  Table manners are the rules of etiquette used while eating, which may also include the appropriate use of utensils. Different cultures observe different rules for table manners...
  
  
• Music Hall
  Music hall
  Music Hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to:# A particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and speciality acts...
  
  
• Born in the Gardens
  Born In The Gardens
  Born In The Gardens is a comedy play by Bristol-born playwright Peter Nichols.Nichols wrote the play in 1979, after his now famous drama Privates On Parade was rejected by the Bristol Old Vic for being too controversial. Born In The Gardens was staged in the Theatre Royal to celebrate its 200th...
  
  
• Spring and Port Wine
  Spring and Port Wine
  Spring and Port Wine is a stage play by Bill Naughton which was turned into a film .It began life under the title My Flesh, My Blood as a BBC Radio play, broadcast on 17 August 1957 in the Saturday Night Theatre strand...
  
  

1986-87

• The Shop at Sly Corner
• Music Hall
  Music hall
  Music Hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to:# A particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and speciality acts...
  
  
• Season's Greetings
• Bonny Brid

1987-88

• Hobson's Choice
• An Inspector Calls
  An Inspector Calls
  An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in 1945 in the Soviet Union and 1946 in the UK. It is considered to be one of Priestley's best known works for the stage and one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre...
  
  
• Move Over, Mrs. Markham
• Music Hall
  Music hall
  Music Hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to:# A particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and speciality acts...
  
  

1988-89

• Hindle Wakes
• Fur Coat and No Knickers
• Death of a Salesman
  Death of a Salesman
  Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was the recipient of the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play. Premiered at the Morosco Theatre in February 1949, the original production ran for a total of 742 performances.-Plot :Willy Loman...
  
  

1989-90

• All in Good Time
• The Glass Menagerie
  The Glass Menagerie
  The Glass Menagerie is a four-character memory play by Tennessee Williams. Williams worked on various drafts of the play prior to writing a version of it as a screenplay for MGM, to whom Williams was contracted...
  
  
• The Day After the Fair

1990-91

• Hay Fever
  Hay Fever
  Hay Fever is a comic play written by Noël Coward in 1924 and first produced in 1925 with Marie Tempest as the first Judith Bliss. Laura Hope Crews played the role in New York...
  
  
• A Christmas Carol
  A Christmas Carol
  A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of...
  
  
• Blood Brothers

1991-92

• A Doll's House
  A Doll's House
  A Doll's House is a three-act play in prose by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. It premièred at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 21 December 1879, having been published earlier that month....
  
  
• Noises Off
  Noises Off
  Noises Off is a 1982 play by English playwright Michael Frayn. The idea for it was born in 1970, when Frayn was standing in the wings watching a performance of Chinamen, a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave...
  
  
• Abigail's Party
  Abigail's Party
  Abigail's Party is a play for stage and television written and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh. It is a suburban situation comedy of manners, and a satire on the aspirations and tastes of the new middle class that emerged in Britain in the 1970s...
  
  

1992-93

• The Crucible
  The Crucible
  The Crucible is a 1952 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay during 1692 and 1693. Miller wrote the play as an allegory of McCarthyism, when the US government blacklisted accused communists...
  
  
• Blithe Spirit
  Blithe Spirit (play)
  Blithe Spirit is a comic play written by Noël Coward which takes its title from Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem "To a Skylark" . The play concerns socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant, Madame Arcati, to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to...
  
  
• Beyond Reasonable Doubt

1993-94

• Music Hall
  Music hall
  Music Hall is a type of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to:# A particular form of variety entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and speciality acts...
  
  
• Breezeblock Park
• The Importance of Being Earnest
  The Importance of Being Earnest
  The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...
  
  

1994-95

• Charlie's Aunt
• A Taste of Honey
  A Taste of Honey
  A Taste of Honey is the first play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney, written when she was 18. It was initially intended as a novel, but she turned it into a play because she hoped to revitalize British theatre and to address social issues that she felt were not being presented...
  
  
• Habeas Corpus
  Habeas Corpus (play)
  Habeas Corpus is a comedy stage play by the English author Alan Bennett. It was first performed at the Lyric Theatre in London on 10 May 1973, with Alec Guinness and Margaret Courtenay in the lead roles....
  
  

1995-96

• The Lion in Winter
  The Lion in Winter
  -Synopsis:Set during Christmas 1183 at Henry II of England's château in Chinon, Anjou, Angevin Empire, the play opens with the arrival of Henry's wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, whom he has had imprisoned since 1173...
  
  
• Happy Families
  Happy Families (play)
  Happy Families is a play written by John Godber in 1991.It is an autobiographical play set in Northern England and tells the story of a boy called John and his parents Vic and Dot. It tells of the stresses and strains of growing up with his family. It tells of how he grows up through his teenage...
  
  
• Pack of Lies
  Pack of Lies
  Pack of Lies is a 1983 play by English writer Hugh Whitemore.Based on a true story, the plot centres on Bob and Barbara Jackson and their teenage daughter Julie The Jacksons are friendly with their neighbours, Peter and Helen Kroger, until the couple is...
  
  

1996-97

• Billy Liar
  Billy Liar
  Billy Liar is a 1959 novel by Keith Waterhouse, which was later adapted into a play, a film, a musical and a TV series. The work has inspired and featured in a number of popular songs....
  
  
• Racing Demon
  Racing Demon (play)
  Racing Demon is a 1990 play by English playwright David Hare. Part of a trio of plays about British institutions, it focuses on the Church of England, and tackles issues such as gay ordination, and the role of evangelism in inner-city communities...
  
  
• They Came From Mars…

1997-98

• Touch and Go
• Present from the Past
• Whose Life Is It Anyway?
  Whose Life is it Anyway?
  Whose Life Is It Anyway? is a play by Brian Clark adapted from his 1972 television play of the same title. The play premiered at the Mermaid Theatre in London's West End in 1978 starring Tom Conti as Ken.-Plot:...
  
  

1998-99

• Confusions
  Confusions
  Confusions is a play by Alan Ayckbourn consisting of a series of five interconnected one-act plays. It was first staged in 1974 and played by just five actors...
  
  
• Passion Killers
• The Anniversary
  The Anniversary
  The Anniversary was an American band formed in Lawrence, Kansas in 1997 by Josh Berwanger, James David, Christian Jankowski, Adrianne Verhoeven and Justin Roelofs. The Anniversary was the solidification of a line-up that had been in flux for a year...
  
  

1999-2000

• House Guest
  House Guest
  House Guest is a reality programme that began on ITV on 19 May 2008.The show consists of a group of 5 people who each, along with a co-host, host a dinner party for the other guests. This involves a three course meal along with entertainment. The guests mark, out of 10, the hosts food and hosting...
  
  
• Shakers
  Shakers
  The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, known as the Shakers, is a religious sect originally thought to be a development of the Religious Society of Friends...
  
  
• Journey's End
  Journey's End
  Journey's End is a 1928 drama, the seventh of English playwright R. C. Sherriff. It was first performed at the Apollo Theatre in London by the Incorporated Stage Society on 9 December 1928, starring a young Laurence Olivier, and soon moved to other West End theatres for a two-year run...
  
  

2000-2001

• Bouncers
• The Chalk Garden
  The Chalk Garden
  The Chalk Garden is a play by Enid Bagnold that premiered on Broadway in 1955. The play tells the story of Mrs. St Maugham and her granddaughter Laurel, a disturbed child under Miss Madrigal's care. The setting of the play was inspired by Bagnold's own garden at North End House in Rottingdean, near...
  
  
• Wildest Dreams
  Wildest Dreams
  Wildest Dreams is the eighth solo album by Tina Turner, released on Parlophone/Virgin in 1996. It went double platinum in the UK, France, Germany, and on the European charts.-Overview:...
  
  

2001-02

• Herbal Bed
• Cash on Delivery
  Cash on Delivery
  C.O.D. is the debut album of rapper Ray Cash. He mentions a title called in "P.A.N." which criticizes bubblegum rap. Cash insinuates that his label before the album's release showed that "it doesn't know what to do with him". This can be proven since his two hits "Sex Appeal" and "Bumpin' my...
  
  
• The Memory of Water
  The Memory of Water
  The Memory of Water is a comedy written by English playwright Shelagh Stephenson, first staged at Hampstead Theatre in 1996.-Vi:Vi is the mother of the three sisters and whose funeral they are together for. She was a glamorous woman when younger, with whom all the men of the village were enamoured...
  
  

2002-03

• Sense and Sensibility
  Sense and Sensibility
  Sense and Sensibility, published in 1811, is a British romance novel by Jane Austen, her first published work under the pseudonym, "A Lady." Jane Austen is considered a pioneer of the romance genre of novels, and for the realism portrayed in her novels, is one the most widely read writers in...
  
  
• Bouncers
• Brassed Off
  Brassed Off
  Brassed Off is a 1996 British film written and directed by Mark Herman. The film, a British-American co-production made between Channel Four Films, Miramax Films and Prominent Films, is about the troubles faced by a colliery brass band, following the closure of their pit...
  
  
• Nude with Violin
  Nude with Violin
  Nude with Violin is a play by Noël Coward. A light comedy of manners, the play is Coward's satire on "Modern Art" and the value placed on art....
  
  

2003-04

• Trivial Pursuits
• A Man for All Seasons
  A Man for All Seasons
  A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt. An early form of the play had been written for BBC Radio in 1954, and a one-hour live television version starring Bernard Hepton was produced in 1957 by the BBC, but after Bolt's success with The Flowering Cherry, he reworked it for the stage.It was...
  
  
• An Evening with Gary Lineker
  An Evening with Gary Lineker
  An Evening with Gary Lineker is a 1991 stage play, adapted for television in 1994, by Arthur Smith and Chris England.The action takes place against the backdrop of the 1990 Football World Cup semi-final, between England and West Germany, which is taking place in Italy while Monica and Bill are on...
  
  
• Night Must Fall
  Night Must Fall
  Night Must Fall is a play, a psychological thriller, by Emlyn Williams, first performed in 1935.-Play:Mrs Bramson, a bitter, fussy, self-pitying elderly woman, resides in a remote part of Essex, with her intelligent yet subdued niece, Olivia...
  
  

2004-05

• Playhouse Creatures
• Caught in the Net
  Caught in the Net
  Caught in the Net is a 1928 Australian silent film about a woman in high society starring Zillah Bateman, a British theatre star who was touring Australia at the time. Only part of the film survives.-External links:* at National Film and Sound Archive...
  
  
• Two Planks and a Passion
• Beyond a Joke
  Beyond a Joke
  "Beyond a Joke" is the sixth episode of science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf Series VII and the 42nd in the series run. It was first broadcast on the British television channel BBC2 on 21 February 1997...
  
  

2005-06

• The Diary of Anne Frank
• Black Comedy
  Black Comedy
  Black Comedy is a one-act farce by Peter Shaffer, first performed in 1965.The play is written to be staged under a reversed lighting scheme: the play opens on a darkened stage...
  
  
• Brimstone and Treacle
  Brimstone and Treacle
  -Potter on Brimstone and Treacle:In 1978, Potter said:I had written Brimstone and Treacle in difficult personal circumstances. Years of acute psoriatic arthropathy—unpleasantly affecting skin and joints—had not only taken their toll in physical damage but had also, and perhaps inevitably, mediated...
  
  
• A Chorus of Disapproval
  A Chorus of Disapproval
  A Chorus of Disapproval is a 1988 British film adapted from the Alan Ayckbourn play of the same title, directed by Michael Winner. Among the movie's cast are Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Richard Briers, and Alexandra Pigg....
  
  

2006-07

• Neville's Island
• Hobson's Choice
• Fur Coat and No Knickers
• The Heiress
  The Heiress
  The Heiress is a 1949 American drama film. It was written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from their 1947 play of the same title that was based on the 1880 novel Washington Square by Henry James. The film was directed by William Wyler, with starring performances by Olivia de Havilland as...
  
  

2007-08

• Abigail's Party
  Abigail's Party
  Abigail's Party is a play for stage and television written and directed in 1977 by Mike Leigh. It is a suburban situation comedy of manners, and a satire on the aspirations and tastes of the new middle class that emerged in Britain in the 1970s...
  
  
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (play)
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a play based on Ken Kesey's 1962 novel of the same name. Dale Wasserman's stage adaptation, with music by Teiji Ito, made its Broadway preview on November 12, 1963, its premiere on November 13, and ran until January 25, 1964 for a total of one preview and 82...
  
  
• Don't Dress for Dinner
  Don't Dress for Dinner
  Don't Dress for Dinner is a two-act play by French playwright Marc Camoletti. It's a sequel to Camoletti's other play Boeing Boeing. The play ran in Paris for a little more than two years under the name Pyjamas Pour Six, and also ran in London starring Simon Cadell and Su Pollard.- Characters...
  
  
• The Matchmaker
  The Matchmaker
  The Matchmaker is a play by Thornton Wilder.The play has a long and colorful history. John Oxenford's 1835 one-act farce A Day Well Spent had been extended into a full-length play entitled Einen Jux will er sich machen by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy in 1842...
  
  

2008-09

• And a Nightingale Sang
  And a Nightingale Sang
  And a Nightingale Sang is a play by British playwright C.P. Taylor and commissioned by Newcastle upon Tyne's Live Theatre Company. The play was made into a TV play in 1989 by Jack Rosenthal for Tyne Tees Television....
  
  
• Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn
  Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn
  Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn is a 1935 British film melodrama film starring Tod Slaughter and Eric Portman. It was directed by Milton Rosmer, whose most famous film was the English-language version of Emil and the Detectives that same year. It is based on the true story of the 1827...
  
  
• Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime
• The Ladykillers
  The Ladykillers
  The Ladykillers is a 1955 British black comedy film made by Ealing Studios. Directed by Alexander Mackendrick, it stars Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner and Katie Johnson...
  
  

External links

• Blackburn Drama Club website
• Thwaites Empire Theatre website