Wilmslow Guild Players Past Productions
Ordered by play
A
Abelard and Heloise
by Ronald Millar April 1974Abigail's Party by Mike Leigh February 1981
Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn October 1977
Accrington Pals, The by Peter Whelan June 1986
Accrington Pals, The by Peter Whelan October 2006
Adventures of Sinbad, The by Syd Mence 14th - 17th December 1994
Aladdin December 1975
Aladdin December 1983
Aladdin by John Morley 12th - 14th December 1991
Aladdin by Stuart Ardern 14th - 17th December 2005
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves by Norman Robbins 12th - 15th December 2001
Alice in Wonderland at The Rex Theatre, Wilmslow December 1967
Alice through the Looking Glass December 1967
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt April 1973
And a Little Love Besides by Alan Plater February 1978
Anniversary, The by Bill MacIlwraith February 1975
Anniversary, The by Bill MacIlwraith 18th - 20th October 1990
Antigone by Jean Anouilh April 1962
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare March 1968
Anyone For Breakfast? by Derek Benfield 28th - 31st March 2007
The Ark by Helen Griffin 20th May 2009 (One Act Play)
Arms and The Man by George Bernard Shaw June 1941
Arms and The Man by George Bernard Shaw March 1963
Arsenic and Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring February 1989
As You Like It by William Shakespeare October 1933
A Visit from Miss Protheroe by Alan Bennett 20th May 1995 (One Act Play)
A Woman Of No Importance by Oscar Wilde 25th - 28th March 2009
B
Babes in the Wood
by Paul Reakes 13th - 16th December 2006Babes in the Wood by Syd Mence 13th - 16th December 1995
Beauty and the Beast at The Rex Theatre, Wilmslow December 1966
Beaux Stratagem, The by George Farquhar October 1953
Becket by Jean Anouilh February 1963
Big Cats, The by Alec Baron 22nd May 1993 (One Act Play)
Big Soft Nellie by Henry Livings October 1967
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall February 1984
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall 21st - 23rd March 1996
Bird in Hand September 1944
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward October 1969
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward October 1979
Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward 10th - 12th October 1996
Bluebeard December 1976
Breath of Spring by Peter Coke October 1973
Breath of Spring by Peter Coke 12th - 15th March 2008
Breezeblock Park by Willy Russell October 1988
But Not Here by David Campton 17th May and 25th June 2000 (One Act Play)
C
Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
June 1987Captain Carvallo by Denis Cannan December 1955
Cards, Cups and Crystal Ball by David Campton May 2007 (One Act Play)
Caretaker, The by Harold Pinter February 1970
Cemetery Club, The by Ivan Menchell 23rd - 25th October 1997
Chalk Garden, The by Enid Bagnold 16th - 18th March 2000
Charlie's Aunt by Brandon Thomas October 1974
Chester Mystery Plays 30th June - 16th July 1992
Christmas Fare A Mummers Play December 1941
Christmas Humbug December 1989
Cinderella December 1978
Cinderella December 1988
Cinderella by Mike Janes 15th - 20th December 1997
Cinderella by Norman Robbins 15th - 18th December 2004
Collections / The Lesson by Harold Pinter / Eugene Ionesco February 1964
Couples by Bettine Manktelow February 1986
Cradle Song, The by Gregorio and Maria Martinez Sierra October 1950
Crime Passionel by Satre October 1951
Crucible, The by Arthur Miller April 1982
Curses, Foiled Again! by Evelyn Hood May/July 2001 (One Act Play)
D
Dangerous Corner
by J. B. Priestley
February 1987Dead Of Night by Peter Whalley 29th March - 1st April 2006
Diary of Anne Frank, The by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett October 1983
Dick Turpin by Paul Reakes 19th - 19th December 1998
Dick Whittington by Verne Morgan December 1986
Dick Whittington by Norman Robbins 12th - 15th December 2007
Distant Point Translated from Russian October 1942
Don't Blame It On The Boots by N. J. Warburton 18th May 1991 (One Act Play)
Dracula Spectacular by John Gardiner and Andrew Parr December 1984
Dr Knock by Jules Romain 27th - 31st March, 1st April 1939
E
Eager Heart, The A Christmas Mystery Play, December 1928Easy Stages by N. J. Warburton 22nd May 1993 (One Act Play)
Educating Rita by Willy Russell 12th - 14th October 1995
Enter a Free Man by Tom Stoppard April 1986
Entertainer, The by John Osborne February 1976
Equilibrium June 1985
Everything in the Garden by Giles Cooper May 1965
F
Fairy Tale Plays December 1934Family Reunion December 1960
Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of 'Macbeth' by David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin Jnr 15th - 17th February 1990
Father, The May 1968
Father's Day by Eric Chappell 28th - 31st October 2009
Figure of Fun March 1971
First Born, The October 1954
Flood Warning by Fay Weldon 15th May 2004 (One Act Play)
Four Queens Wait For Henry by L. Du Garde Peach May 2005 (One Act Play)
G
Garlic and Lavender by
Nick
Warburton 18th May 2002 (One Act Play)Getting Married October 1959
Ghost Train, The by Arnold Ridley April 1979
Gingerbread Donkey, The by Alan Cullen at The Rex Theatre, Wilmslow (World Amateur Premiere) December 1968
Glass Menagerie, The by Tennessee Williams March 1969
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by John Morley 13th - 15th December 1990
Goldilocks and the Three Bears by John Morley 13th - 16th December 2000
Goody Two Shoes by Paul Reakes 17th - 20th December 2008
Groping For Words by Sue Townsend 13th - 15th July 2000
H
Habeus Corpus
by Alan Bennett
October 1981Hail Nero February 1935
Hamlet by William Shakespeare April 1948
Hamlet by William Shakespeare March 1959
Hans, the Witch and the Goblin by Alan Cullen at The Rex Theatre, Wilmslow December 1970
Hans, the Witch and the Goblin by Alan Cullen December 1981
Happy as Larry December 1953
Hassan April 1954
Haunted Houses November 1941
Hay Fever by Noël Coward October 1968
Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw October 1952
Henry VIII by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher October 1936
Hippolytus by Euripides January 1956
Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse October 1964
Hobson's Choice by Harold Brighouse February 1988
Hollow Crown, The devised by John Barton February 1969
Hollow Crown, The devised by John Barton 12th - 14th March 1998
Home by David Storey April 1975
Hostage, The by Brendan Behan October 1963
How the Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn October 1992
I
I Have Been Here Before by J. B. Priestley
October 1948Imaginary Invalid, The by Molière February 1985
Imaginary Invalid, The by Molière 13th - 15th March 1997
Importance of Being Earnest, The by Oscar Wilde October 1943
Importance of Being Earnest, The by Oscar Wilde October 1984
Importance of Being Earnest, The by Oscar Wilde 23rd - 25th March 1995
In By The Half by Jimmie Chinn 24th May 2008 (One Act Play)
Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides February 1927
J
Jack and the Beanstalk
December 1979Jack and the Beanstalk by John Morley 18th - 21st December 1996
Jacob's Ladder December 1944
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 8th - 15th October 1938
Jump, The by John Banks 16th May 1992 (One Act Play)
K
Killing of Sister George, The
by Frank Marcus February 1979King John by William Shakespeare October 1926
King Lear by William Shakespeare April 1950
Knight of the Burning Pestle, The by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher 11th, 13th - 18th December 1937
L
Ladies in Retirement
by Reginald Denham April 1983Lark, The by Jean Anouilh October 1956
Last Panto in Little Grimley by David Tristram 16th May, 26th May & 7th June 1997 (One Act Play)
Laying The Ghost by Simon Williams 11th - 13th March 2004
Lesson, The / Collections by Eugene Ionesco / Harold Pinter February 1964
Lettice and Lovage by Peter Shaffer October 1991
Lion in Winter, The by James Goldman October 1971
Look Back in Anger by John Osborne November 1961
Love's Labours Lost by William Shakespeare April 1953
Loves of Four Colonels, The October 1955
Lucy by John Banks 21st May 1994
Lysistrata by Aristophanes February 1966
M
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
November 1929Macbeth by William Shakespeare April 1949
Macbeth by William Shakespeare April 1966
Madame Pepita by Gregorio Martinez Sierra Translated from Spanish February 1946
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw October 1945
Man With a Load of Mischief, The by Ashley Dukes December 1948
Mary Rose by J.M. Barrie June 1980
Matchmakers, The December 1958
Merchant of Venice, The by William Shakespeare October 1927
Merchant of Venice, The by William Shakespeare March 1958
Merchant of Venice, The by William Shakespeare 1970
Merry Wives of Windsor, The by William Shakespeare 16th, 18th-23rd October 1937
Merry Wives of Windsor, The by William Shakespeare May 1956
Midsummer Night's Dream, A by William Shakespeare October 1930
Midsummer Night's Dream, A by William Shakespeare October 1982
Mother Courage by Bertolt Brecht April 1967
Mother Goose by Norman Robbins 10th - 13th December 2003
Moon in the Yellow River, The by Denis Johnston February 1947
Mr. Bolfry by James Bridie October 1946
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare October 1931
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare June 1945
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare April 1951
Murder in Company by Philip King & John Boland 14th - 16th October 1993
Murder in the Cathedral by TS Eliot December 1957
My Fat Friend by Charles Laurence October 1975
Mystery At Blackwater by Dan Sutherland 15th - 17th March 2001
N
Nativity Plays
December 1956Natural Causes by Eric Chappell 13th - 15th October 1994
Neville's Island by Tim Firth 16th - 18th July 1998
New Quixote, The by Michael Frayn 20th May 1995 (One Act Play)
Nicollo and Nicolette December 1974
Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams October 1980
Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams October 2007
Not Now Darling by Ray Cooney & John Chapman 21st - 24th October 1998
O
Office Song
by Nick Warburton
20th May and 25th June 2000 (One Act Play)Oh What a Lovely War! by the Theatre Workshop London February 1971
Oh What a Lovely War! by the Theatre Workshop London April 1984
Oh What a Lovely War! by the Theatre Workshop London 10th - 12th March 1994
Old Man of the Mountains December 1952
Old Time Music Hall 13th May 2006
Old Time Music Hall 12th May 2007
Old Time Music Hall 19th April 2008
On Life's Sunny Side by Helge Krog October 1947
Othello by William Shakespeare April 1952
Othello by William Shakespeare October 1972
Our Man May 1990 (One Act Play)
Our Town by Thornton Wilder October 1949
Outside Edge by Richard Harris March 1991
Owl and the Pussycat, The December 1973
Owl and the Pussycat, The by Sheila Ruskin and David Wood December 1985
P
Pack Of Lies
by Hugh Whitemore
18th - 20th March 1999Pan in Pimlico by Helen Simpson (One Act Play) January 1927
Panto at the OK Corral by Jim Sperinck 11th - 14th December 2002
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen Open Air Performance, Proceeds to Red X June 1940
Permission To Cry by David Campton May 2007 (One Act Play)
Pinnochio December 1971
Playboy of the Western World by John Millington Synge November 1962
Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner, The by David Wood April 1985
Price of Coal, The by Harold Brighouse (One Act Play) January 1927
Private Ear, Public Eye by Peter Shaffer February 1965
Puss in Boots December 1982
Puss in Boots by Norman Robbins 15th - 18th December 1999
Q
R
Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier October 1976Recipe For Murder by J.D.Robins 28th - 30th October 2004
Relapse, The by John Vanbrugh October 1958
Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn February 1982
Respectable Funeral, A by Jimmie Chinn May 1990 (One Act Play)
Respectable Funeral, A by Jimmie Chinn May 2005 (One Act Play)
Respecting Your Piers by Peter Quilter 24th - 26th October 2002
Restoration of Arnold Middleton, The by David Storey February 1972
Richard III by William Shakespeare March 1960
Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh March 1992
Rising Sun, The April 1937
Rivals, The by Richard Brinsley Sheridan December 1949
Rivals, The by Richard Brinsley Sheridan April 1976
Rivals, The by Richard Brinsley Sheridan 13th - 15th March 2003
Robin Hood December 1987
Romanov and Juliet by Peter Ustinov December 1959
Romantic Young Lady, The by Gregorio Martinez Sierra Translated from Spanish December 1942
Rose and the Ring, The by William Makepeace Thackeray at The Rex Theatre, Wilmslow December 1965
Round and Round the Garden by Alan Ayckbourn 13th - 15th July 1995
S
Sandcastles
by Bob Larbey 26th - 29th October 2005Scenes from Shakespeare October 1934
School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan December 1954
School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan January 1973
School Ties by George Brockhill 18th May 1991 (One Act Play)
Seagull, The December 1951
Season's Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn October 1987
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen adapted by Roger Parsley and Andy Graham 6th - 9th April 2005
Separate Peace, A by Tom Stoppard 17th May 2003 (One Act Play)
She Passed Through Lorraine by Lionel Hale January 1934
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith December 1946
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith October 1966
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith 18th - 20th March 1993
Sleeping Beauty December 1977
Sleeping Beauty by Syd Mence 15th - 18th December 1993
Sweeney Todd April 1981
Sweeney Todd (at The Royal Exchange, Manchester) August 1981
Suddenly at Home by Francis Durbridge April 1988
T
Taming of the Shrew, The
by William Shakespeare
April 1955Taming of the Shrew, The by William Shakespeare February 1977
Tartuffe, Le by Molière February 1962
Tempest, The by William Shakespeare June 1946
There Goes The Bride by Ray Cooney and John Chapman 29th October - 1st November 2008
Thirty Minutes in a Street by Beatrice Mayor (One Act Play) January 1927
Time and Time Again by Alan Ayckbourn February 1980
Time and Time Again by Alan Ayckbourn 25th - 27th October 2001
Toad of Toad Hall December 1963
Toad of Toad Hall at The Rex Theatre, Wilmslow December 1969
Toad of Toad Hall December 1980
Tobias and the Angel by James Bridie December 1940
Touché by Harry Lowe 14th May 2004 (One Act Play)
Tomb with a View by Norman Robbins February 1983
T.N.T. June 1983
Treasure Island at The Rex Theatre, Wilmslow December 1964
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare April 1957
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare October 1928
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare April 1940
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare April 1964
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare April 1980
U
Under Milk Wood
by Dylan Thomas October 1986Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas October 2003
Under The Stars by Richard Crane 21st - 23rd October 1999
Up the Wall June 1978
V
Venus Observed
by Christopher Fry October 1957W
Waiting for the Verdict Wilmslow Guild Players, Wilmslow Guild
Orchestra and Dolcette Male Voice Choir, December 1937Waltz of the Toreadors by Jean Anouilh 1960
Waltz of the Toreadors by Jean Anouilh April 1978
What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton April 1987
When We Are Married by J. B. Priestley March 1972
Whose Wedding is it Anyway? by Margaret Bower 22nd May 1999 (One Act Play)
Wind of Heaven, The by Emlyn Williams October 1978
Winter's Tale, The by William Shakespeare October 1935
Winter's Tale, The by William Shakespeare October 1985
Wit's End by Neil Rhodes May 2005 (One Act Play)
Wizard of Oz, The December 1972
Wizard of Oz: The Pantomime by Syd Mence 16th - 19th December 1992
X
Y
York Mystery Plays
December 1927
York Mystery Plays
December 1930
Z
Numeric
1066 and All That
by Reginald Arkell April 19891926 Revisited 12th - 14th July 2001
84 Charing Cross Road by James Roose-Evans from the book by Helene Hanff 19th - 21st October 2000