Wilmslow Guild Players Past Productions

Alice's Adventures by Julia Whitehead The Studio (Junior/Fantasy)
The Net - a Play for Children by Roy H Vernon Romiley Little Theatre (Senior/Drama)
Just for Billy by Liz Sharp The Studio (Junior/Drama)
A Little Box of Oblivion by Stephen Bean SLR Theatre Company (Youth/Comedy)

24th May

Permission to Cry by David Campton Wilmslow Guild Players (Senior/Drama)
First Love by Mike Newbold PADOS (Junior/Drama)
The Red Balloon by Damien Trasler The Clap Trappers (Senior/Drama)

25th May

Waiting for Pandora by Geoff Bamber Cheshire Academy of Performing Arts (Junior/Comedy)
Carrie on Irony by Steve Jacobs WAODS (Senior/Drama)
Where's George by Gary Diamond and Roy Lawrence Barton Theatre Company (Senior/Comedy)
Score by Lyndon Brook Know Your Onions Theatre Group (Senior/Comedy)

26th May

Sherlock Holmes' Last Case by Charlie Cook TLC (Senior/Comedy)
Hell Has Our Phone Number by Nicole Villacres Mossley AODS (Youth/Comedy)
Cards, Cups and Crystal Ball by David Campton Wilmslow Guild Players (Senior/Comedy)

Old Time Music Hall

12th May

Anyone For Breakfast?

by Derek Benfield
directed by John Banks
28th - 31st March

2006

Babes in the Wood

by Paul Reakes
directed by Geof Reed
13th - 16th December

The Accrington Pals

by Peter Whelan
directed by Moyra Hampson
25th - 28th October

The Wilmslow Festival of One Act Plays

24th May

The World of Pantomime by Julia Whitehead Port Sunlight Players (Junior/Fantasy)
But Yesterday by Jimmie Chinn Bebington Dramatic Society (Senior/Drama)
Dreamjobs by Graham Jones Port Sunlight Players (Junior/Drama)
Puppets of War an improvisation by the cast AB Academy Theatre School (Youth/Other)

25th May

A Time for Farewells by Damian Trasler Wilmslow Guild Players (Senior/Drama)
One Flap of its Tiny Wings by Marc Lyth SLR Theatre Company (Senior/Drama)
Dolls by Jerome McDonough PADOS (Youth/Drama)
Sparrows by Charles Mander Hyde Little Theatre (Senior/Comedy)

26th May

Two Women and a Chair by Michael Olsen Know Your Onions Theatre Group (Senior/Drama)
Gosforth's Fete by Alan Ayckbourn Barton Theatre Company (Senior/Comedy)

27th May

The Hut by Pat Penney Bollington Junior Festival Players (Junior/Drama)
Scum in Suits by Howard F. Bramwell Farrago Players (Senior/Drama)
Rabbit by David Foxton Bollington Junior Festival Players (Junior/Drama)

Old Time Music Hall

13th May

Dead Of Night

by Peter Whalley
directed by Grace Reed
29th March - 1st April

2005

Aladdin

by Stuart Ardern
directed by Elaine Hughes
14th - 17th December

Sandcastles

by Bob Larbey
directed by Cynthia Ridout
26th - 29th October

The Wilmslow Festival of One Act Plays

25th May

Who Cares by John Chambers Mossley A.O.D.S. Next Generation (Youth/Drama)
Raindrop Fairies by Sherri Phillips Mossley A.O.D.S. Next Generation (Junior/Fantasy)
The Cage Birds by David Campton Mossley A.O.D.S. Next Generation (Junior/Drama)

26th May

Wit's End by Neil Rhodes Wilmslow Guild Players (Senior/Comedy)
A Respectable Funeral by Jimmie Chinn Wilmslow Guild Players (Senior/Comedy)

27th May

Ernie's Incredible Illucinations by Alan Ayckbourn Alderley Edge School For Girls (Junior/Comedy)
The Wizard of Oz with apologies to Frank Baum Port Sunlight Players Youth Group (Junior/Drama)

28th May

Nobody Famous by Douglas M. Bocaz-Larson Macclesfield Amateur Dramatic Society (Senior/Comedy)
Little Brother Little Sister by David Campton SLR Theatre Company (Junior/Drama)
Four Queens Wait For Henry by L. Du Garde Peach Wilmslow Guild Players (Senior/Comedy)

Be Tickled To Death

21st May

Wit's End by Neil Rhodes
A Respectable Funeral by Jimmie Chinn
Four Queens Wait For Henry by L. Du Garde Peach

Sense And Sensibility

by Jane Austen
adapted by Roger Parsley and Andy Graham
directed by Owen Le Blanc
6th - 9th April

2004

Cinderella

by Norman Robbins
directed by Geoffrey Reed
15th - 18th December

Recipe For Murder

by J.D.Robins
directed by Elaine Hughes
28th - 30th October

The Wilmslow Festival of One Act Plays

14th May

Touché by Harry Lowe Wilmslow Guild Players (Senior)

15th May

Getting On by Marianka Swain Know Your Onions Theatre Group (Senior)
Flood Warning by Fay Weldon Wilmslow Guild Players (Senior)

The Awards

Best Senior Production: Touché ( Wilmslow Guild Players)
Best Senior Individual Performance: Paul Lewis as Alex in Touché ( Wilmslow Guild Players)
Adjudicator's Award: Flood Warning ( Wilmslow Guild Players)
The Syd Mence Cup for a Piece of Theatre Magic: Getting On (Know Your Onions Theatre Group)

Laying The Ghost

by Simon Williams
directed by Geoffrey Reed
11th - 13th March

2003

Mother Goose

by Norman Robbins
directed by Elaine Hughes
10th - 13th December

Under Milk Wood

by Dylan Thomas
directed by Cynthia Ridout
16th - 18th October

The Wilmslow Festival of One Act Plays

15th May

The Necessary Arrangements by Jo Wornell Hulme Hall School (Junior)
A Canterbury Tale by Chaucer (adpated by Phil Woods) The Playermakers, Stockton Heath (Senior)

16th May

Silent Shame by Liz Sharp Attic Theatre (Junior)
Albert by Richard Harris P.A.D.O.S. (Senior)
Preggars by Beverley Hancock Attic Theatre (Senior)

17th May

Forward to the Right by Lily Ann Green Sleight of Hand Theatre Company (Senior)
A Separate Peace by Tom Stoppard Wilmslow Guild Players (Senior)

The Awards

Best Junior Production: Silent Shame
Best Junior Individual Performance: Laura Gilbert and Marie Ashton (jointly) Hulme Hall School
Best Senior Production: Albert
Best Senior Individual Performance: Les Read as Guard in Forward to the Right
Adjudicator's Award: Preggars
The Syd Mence Cup for a Piece of Theatre Magic: The sheet scene, and Dobbin, in A Canterbury Tale

The Rivals

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
directed by Derek Slater
13th - 15th March

2002

Panto at the OK Corral

by Jim Sperinck
directed by Alan Lucas
11th - 14th December

Respecting Your Piers

by Peter Quilter
directed by Clare Lewis
24th - 26th October

The Wilmslow Festival of One Act Plays

15th May

Early Man by Hannah Vincent A B Centre of Performing Arts (Junior)
Educating Rita by Willy Russell (extract) Frodsham Players (Senior)

16th May

Leaving by Jo-Ann Wornell Hulme Hall School (Junior)
Can You Hear the Music by David Compton A B Centre of Performing Arts (Youth)
Another One Bites the Dust by Jo-Ann Wornell Hulme Hall School (Junior)

17th May

Die Kinder by Liz Sharp Attic Theatre (Youth)
TBC by Les Read Sleight of Hand Theatre Co. (Senior)
Call Girls by Beverley Hancock Attic Theatre (Senior)

18th May

Reckoning by Kathy Mead PADOS (Senior)
The Scholarship Girl by Jo-Ann Wornell Alderley Edge School for Girls (Junior)
Garlic and Lavender by Nick Warburton Wilmslow Guild Players (Senior)

The Awards

Best Junior Production: The Scholarship Girl
Best Junior Individual Performance: Michael Palmer as "Customer" in Another One Bites the Dust
Best Youth Production: Die Kinder
Best Youth Individual Performance: James Goodwin as Fussmouse in Can You Hear The Music
Best Senior Production: Reckoning
Best Senior Individual Performance: Jenny McConkey as Rachel in Reckoning
Adjudicator's Award: Garlic and Lavender by Wilmslow Guild Players, for "spectacle, energy and comedy"
The Syd Mence Cup for a Piece of Theatre Magic: Call Girls by Attic Theatre, for being "lively and full of comedy"

2001

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

by Norman Robbins
directed by Geoffrey Reed
12th - 15th December

Time and Time Again

by Alan Ayckbourn
directed by Grace Reed
25th - 27th October

1926 Revisited

devised and directed by Moyra Hampson
12th - 14th July

The Wilmslow Festival of One Act Plays

16th May

Green Forms by Alan Bennett P.A.D.O.S.
The Flat by the Company A.B. Centre of Performing Arts
Guests of Honour by Joan Forman A.B. Centre of Performing Arts

17th May

A Cottage By The Sea by Jo Wornell Hulme Hall Schools
Consequences by Chrissie Leahy Bollington Junior Festival Players
In Search of Inner Strength by Jo Wornell Hulme Hall Schools

18th May

Goodnight Teddybear by Liz Sharp Attic Theatre
Effie's Burning by Valerie Windsor Impact Theatre Company
Love is a Hot Fudge Sundae Attic Theatre

19th May

The Fivehundredth W.A.C. Alderley Edge School for Girls
Wibble by Bill Jones Attic Theatre
After Midnight, Before Dawn by David Campton Alderley Edge School for Girls
Curses, Foiled Again! by Evelyn Hood Wilmslow Guild Players

The Awards

Best Junior Production: Love is a Hot Fudge Sundae
Best Junior Individual Performance: Rachel Morris as Rosy in Love is a Hot Fudge Sundae
Best Youth Production: Goodnight Teddybear
Best Youth Individual Performance: Jenny Sproston as Abby in Goodnight Teddybear
Best Senior Production: Effie's Burning
Best Senior Individual Performance: Diana Brooks as Effie Palmer in Effie's Burning
Adjudicator's Award: Chrissie Leahy for writing, directing and performing in Consequences
The Syd Mence Cup for a Piece of Theatre Magic: The cast of Wibble for "exuberant nonsense"!

Mystery At Blackwater

by Dan Sutherland
directed by Geoffrey Reed
15th - 17th March

2000

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

by John Morley
directed by Gordon Livingston
13th - 16th December

84 Charing Cross Road

by James Roose-Evans from the book by Helene Hanff
directed by Louise Marsland
19th - 21st October

Groping For Words

by Sue Townsend
directed by Patricia Helingoe
13th - 15th July

The Wilmslow Festival of One Act Plays

17th May

But Not Here by David Campton Wilmslow Guild Players
Violets and Vinegar by David Lodge Carver Theatre

19th May

Scream Bloody Murder by David Riley A B Centre of Performing Arts
The Waiting Room by Jo Wornell Hulme Hall School
A Question of Commitment by Jo Wornell Hulme Hall School

20th May

The Difficult Crossing by Andrew Wild MADS
Office Song by Nick Warburton Wilmslow Guild Players

The Awards

Best Junior Production: The Waiting Room
Best Junior Individual Performance: Rebecca Saunders as Becci in A Questions of Commitment
Best Youth Individual Performance: Andrea Gill as Nancy in Scream Bloody Murder
Best Senior Production: Office Song
Best Senior Individual Performance: Simon Waring as Him in The Difficult Crossing
Adjudicator's Award: Chris Saunders for playing Brian in Office Song
The Syd Mence Cup for a Piece of Theatre Magic: Violets and Vinegar by David Lodge

The Chalk Garden

by Enid Bagnold
directed by Derek Slater
16th - 18th March