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Wadhurst Dramatic Club has been putting on shows since 1946, here’s a complete list of our productions;
| Year | Month | Title | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | January | Cinderella, directed by Russ Kirton Review: | Ben Crocker |
| 2023 | September | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, directed by Amanda Dann Review: | |
| 2023 | January | Beauty and the Beast, directed by Russ Kirton Review: Beauty & The Beast Panto – NODA | Ben Crocker |
| 2022 | July | Annie jr, brilliantly performed by the WytKidz & Dramatiks (youth sections). Directed by Amanda Dann Review: Annie Jr – NODA | Book: Thomas Meehan Music: Charles Strause Lyrics: Martin Charmin |
| 2022 | April | Treasure Island, the late, late, late pantomime Directed by Russ Kirton See the Noda Review: Treasure-Island-Review.pdf | Ben Crocker |
| 2020 | Feb-> | Shows cancelled due to corona-19 epidemic. | |
| 2020 | Jan | Charlie & the Chocolate Factory Directed by Amanda Dann Noda Review | Roald Dahl adapted by Richard R George |
| 2019 | May | A Bunch of Amateurs Directed by Russ Kirton NODA’s excellent review | Nick Newman Ian Hislop |
| 2019 | Jan | Bah Humbug! Directed by Kay Sasadia NODA review of Bah Humbug! | Rebecca Ryland Bill Francoeur |
| 2018 | November | Private Peaceful Performed by the WYTKids Directed by Amanda Dann NODA Review & Photos | Michael Morpergo |
| 2018 | November | Wadhurst – “Over The Top” various items to commemorate Armistice day including an extract from “Blackadder Goes Forth” Directed by Jamie Crawford | Ben Elton Richard Curtis |
| 2018 | May | Allo’ Allo’ Directed by Russ Kirton NODA Review | David Croft Jeremy Lloyd |
| 2018 | Jan | no production | |
| 2017 | October | Hairspray Performed by the WYTKids Directed by Amanda Dann NODA Review & Photos | John Waters |
| 2017 | April | Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! Directed by Grainne Murphy NODA Review | Dario Fo |
| 2016 | October | Arms and a Man Directed by Jamie Crawford NODA Review | George Bernard Shaw |
| 2016 | April | Grease Performed by the WYTKids Directed by Amanda Dann NODA Review | Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey |
| 2016 | January | Way out West in a Dress! Directed by Kay Sasada NODA Review | Book by Billy St John Music & Lyrics by Bill Francoeur |
| 2015 | October | Volunteers Directed by Wendy Barr Noda Review | Hilary Mackelden |
| 2015 | May | Bugsy Malone! Performed by the WYTKidz Directed by Amanda Dann Review: Bugsy Malone – NODA | Alan Parker |
| 2015 | January | Puss in Boots – the Pantomime Directed by Russ Kirton A Review | Ben Crocker |
| 2014 | October | SHOWTIME! (West Side Story, Oliver! & Les Miserables) [Review] | Various |
| 2014 | May | Absurd Person Singular [Review] | Alan Ayckbourn |
| 2014 | January | Flapper! The Musical [Review] | Tim Kelly (book), Bill Francoeur (music & lyrics) |
| 2013 | October | Dead Man’s Hand Noda Review | Seymour Matthews |
| 2013 | May | No Time for Fig Leaves [Review] | Duncan Greenwood |
| 2013 | January | Sleeping Beauty | Alan P. Frayn |
| 2012 | October | The Importance of being Earnest [Review] | Oscar Wilde |
| 2012 | May | All American Revue [All American Revue – NODA] | various |
| 2012 | Jan./Feb. | Pirates | Sharon Hulm |
| 2011 | May | Talking with Angels | |
| 2011 | Jan./Feb. | Blackadder II | Richard Curtis & Ben Elton |
| 2010 | October | Kindly Leave The Stage | John Chapman |
| 2010 | May | The Witches | Roald Dahl |
| 2010 | February | Once in a Lifetime | George S. Kaufman |
| 2009 | October | Last Tango in Little Grimley/The Fat Lady Sings in Little Grimley | David Tristram |
| 2009 | May | A Midsummer Night’s Travesty | Nicholas Corder |
| 2008 | October | Deathtrap | Ira Levin |
| 2008 | May | The Curious Savage | John Patrick |
| 2008 | Jan./Feb. | Oliver! | Lionel Bart |
| 2007 | October | Who killed the Football Manager? | Chris Martin |
| 2007 | May | Death by Fatal Murder | Peter Gordon |
| 2007 | February | Elsie and Norm’s Macbeth | John Christopher-Wood |
| 2006 | September | The Wadhurst NODA Music Hall | Wadhurst Dramatic Club |
| 2006 | October | How the Other Half Loves | Alan Ayckbourn |
| 2006 | May | Waiting in the Wings | Noel Coward |
| 2006 | Jan./Feb. | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | John Morley |
| 2005 | May | The Cemetery Club | Ivan Menchell |
| 2005 | March | The Incredulity of St. Thomas | Medieval |
| 2005 | February | Caramba’s Revenge | William Norfolk |
| 2004 | October | Dinnerladies | Victoria Wood |
| 2004 | January | Mother Goose | Norman Robbins |
| 2004 | April | Lettice & Lovage | Peter Shaffer |
| 2003 | October | Day of Reckoning | Pam Valentine |
| 2003 | May | Forget-Me-Knot | David Tristram |
| 2003 | January | The Shakespeare Revue | Christopher Luscombe & Malcolm McKee |
| 2002 | October | Sand Castles | Bob Larbey |
| 2002 | May | The Odd Couple (female version) | Neil Simon |
| 2002 | Jan./Feb. | A Sussex Music Hall | various |
| 2001 | October | Pack of Lies | Hugh Whitemore |
| 2001 | March | Breath of Spring | Peter Coke |
| 2000 | October | Son-et-lumière | WDC |
| 2000 | November | Wadhurst Millennium Pantomime | Jenny Swan for WDC |
| 2000 | May | Murder in Company | Philip King & John Boland |
| 2000 | January | Light Relief | Anna Murton for WDC |
| 2000 | January | Black Comedy | Peter Shaffer |
| 1999 | October | Sing a Song of Shows | various |
| 1999 | May | The Darling Buds of May | H.E.Bates |
| 1999 | January | Old Time Music Hall | various |
| 1998 | October | After September | Jimmie Chinn |
| 1998 | May | A Murder is Announced | Agatha Christie |
| 1998 | January | Sleeping Beauty | John Morley |
| 1997 | October | Noises Off | Michael Frayn |
| 1997 | May | Ten Times Table | Alan Ayckbourn |
| 1997 | June | Charity Variety Show | various |
| 1996 | May | Allo! Allo! | Jeremy Lloyd & David Croft |
| 1996 | February | South Pacific | Rodgers & Hammerstein |
| 1996 | December | 50 Golden years | various |
| 1995 | October | Stepping Out | Richard Harris |
| 1995 | May | On Monday Next | Philip King |
| 1995 | January | Dick Whittington | Jackie Manktelow for WDC |
| 1994 | October | Cats Cradle | Leslie Sands |
| 1994 | May | Abigail’s Party | Mike Lee |
| 1994 | June | Charity Variety show | various |
| 1994 | Jan.-Feb. | All Time Music Hall | various |
| 1993 | October | Steaming | Nell Dunn |
| 1993 | May | The Long Sunset | R.C.Sherriff |
| 1993 | Jan.-Feb. | Snow White | John Morley |
| 1992 | October | Barefoot in the Park | Neil Simon |
| 1992 | May | Touch and Go | David Benfield |
| 1992 | February | Old World Music Hall | Hugh Orchard & others |
| 1991 | October | Gaslight | Patrick Hamilton |
| 1991 | May | Tom Jones | Joan MacAlpine |
| 1991 | Jan.-Feb. | A Handful of Songs | various |
| 1990 | October | Charity Variety show | various |
| 1990 | Jan.-Feb. | Aladdin | Robert Marlowe |
| 1990 | April | Confusions | Alan Ayckbourn |
| 1989 | November | A Month of Sundays | Gerald Savory |
| 1989 | May | Charity Variety show | various |
| 1989 | June | Seaside Special | various |
| 1989 | Jan.-Feb. | Music Hall | various |
| 1988 | October | Season’s Greetings | Alan Ayckbourn |
| 1987 | June | The Wonderful Years of Musicals | various |
| 1987 | December | Humpty Dumpty | John Morley |
| 1987 | April | Play On | Rick Abbott |
| 1986 | May | How the Other Half Loves | Alan Ayckbourn |
| 1986 | January | The Forties Remembered | various |
| 1986 | December | Christmastime | |
| 1985 | October | A Letter from the General | McLoughlin |
| 1985 | May | Fool’s Paradise | Peter Coke |
| 1985 | February | Old Time Music Hall | |
| 1984 | October | Just Between Ourselves | Alan Ayckbourn |
| 1984 | May | Blithe Spirit | Noel Coward |
| 1984 | January | Brer Rabbit | Peter Quartermain |
| 1983 | October | My Three Angels | Spewack |
| 1983 | May | An evening of words & music (incl. Scrivener’s play) | |
| 1983 | February | Music Hall | |
| 1982 | October | Whose Life is it anyway? | Brian Clark |
| 1982 | May | Outside Edge | Richard Harris |
| 1982 | January | Scrooge | Charles Dickens |
| 1981 | October | The Old Country | Alan Bennett |
| 1981 | May | Move over Mrs Markham | Cooney & Chapman |
| 1981 | February | Old Time Music Hall | |
| 1980 | May | Rise and Shine | Elda Cadogan |
| 1980 | May | The Dark Lady of the Sonnets | G.B.Shaw |
| 1980 | May | The Mayor of Torontal | Gwynneth Jones |
| 1980 | January | Red Riding Hood | John Crocker & Eric Gilder |
| 1980 | Autumn | Son-et-lumière | WDC |
| 1979 | October | The Thriller of the Year | Glyn Jones |
| 1979 | May | Not Now, Darling | Cooney & Chapman |
| 1979 | February | Old Time Music Hall | |
| 1979 | December | The Devil His Due | Seamus Fail |
| 1978 | October | The Secretary Bird | |
| 1978 | May | They Came to a City | |
| 1978 | February | Cinderella | |
| 1978 | December | Cathedral – Ten Minutes | Peter Preston |
| 1977 | October | Edward | Margaret Wood |
| 1977 | October | Harlequinade | Terence Rattigan |
| 1977 | May | The Importance of Being Ernest | Oscar Wilde |
| 1977 | January | Jubilee Music Hall | |
| 1976 | October | Woman Alive | John Tully |
| 1976 | October | The Desireable Cottage | Anthony Booth |
| 1976 | January | The House that Jack Built | Wilfred Miller |
| 1976 | December | The Sky is Overcast | Anthony Booth |
| 1976 | April | Person Unknown | Chase & Claton |
| 1975 | October | Call It Love (4 one-act plays: The Night Digby Proposed A Prior Engagement The Elopement Just About Married | Robert Tanitch |
| 1975 | May | Cat on the Fiddle | John Dole |
| 1975 | January | Old Time Music Hall | |
| 1974 | October | Separate Tables | Terence Rattigan |
| 1974 | May | The Incredulity of St. Thomas | Medieval |
| 1974 | January | Ali Baba | Trudy West |
| 1974 | December | The Proposal | |
| 1974 | April | Haul for the Shore | Jean McConnell |
| 1973 | Spring | As You Like It | William Shakespeare |
| 1973 | November | The Incredulity of St. Thomas | Medieval |
| 1973 | November | When is a door not a door? | John Arden |
| 1973 | February | Old Time Music Hall | |
| 1972 | June | The House on the Cliff | G. Batson |
| 1972 | January | Puss in Boots | Geoffrey Clarke & Mary Howarth |
| 1972 | December | Thistle in Donkey Field | Richard Tydeman |
| 1971 | April | Running Riot | Derek Benfield |
| 1970 | May | Boeing, Boeing | Camoletti & Cross |
| 1970 | January | The Queen of Hearts | Mary Howarth & Geoffrey Clarke |
| 1970 | December | Sunshine on the Righteous | |
| 1970 | December | St. Joan (scene 1) | G.B.Shaw |
| 1969 | December | Hands Across the Sea | |
| 1969 | April | Open House | Philip Mackie |
| 1968 | November | Fourpence Off | Julian Hume |
| 1968 | May | The Rape of the Belt | Ben Levy |
| 1968 | January | Cinderella | Paul Hartley & John Burton (Pam Gill – music) for WDC |
| 1967 | Spring | The Paragon | Roland & Michael Pertwee |
| 1967 | January | Jack and the Beanstalk | Geoffrey Clarke, Mary Howarth & James Green |
| 1967 | December | The Hollow Crown | |
| 1966 | May | Wild Goose Chase | Derek Benfield |
| 1966 | January | Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Luis Carroll |
| 1965 | May | The Whole Truth | Philip Mackie |
| 1965 | January | Aladdin | Goeffrey Clarke & Mary Howarth |
| 1965 | December | Burnt Offering | Charles Vites |
| 1964 | January | The Princess and the Swineherd | Stuart Grey |
| 1964 | (May) | (Will Any Gentleman) | (Sylvaine) |
| 1963 | January | Old Mother Weepy | Julian Hume for WDC |
| 1963 | December | For Better, For Worse | Watkyn |
| 1963 | Autumn | The Love of Four Colonels | Peter Ustinov |
| 1962 | Spring | Bonaventure | Charlotte Hastings |
| 1962 | Autumn | The Old Man of the Mountain | Nicholson |
| 1961 | January | The Sleeping Booty | Julian Hume for WDC |
| 1961 | Autumn | Life with the Girls | Wooldridge |
| 1961 | April | Breath of Spring | Peter Coke |
| 1960 | May | A Hundred Years Old | adapted by Helen & Harley Grenville-Barker |
| 1960 | Autumn | Mr. Bolfry | |
| 1959 | January | The Babes in the Cousley Wood | Julian Hume for WDC |
| 1959 | Autumn | The Affairs of Madame Parpot | Cabrol |
| 1959 | Autumn | Nine Lines to Waterloo | |
| 1959 | Autumn | Festival Nightmare | Hooke |
| 1959 | April | Hay Fever | Noel Coward |
| 1958 | April | Two Dozen Red Roses | Kenneth Horne |
| 1957 | November | Corinth House | Hansford Johnson |
| 1957 | March | The Treasure Hunt | |
| 1956 | November | I Remember Mamma | |
| 1956 | April | Arsenic and Old Lace | |
| 1955 | Spring | Down Came a Blackbird | Blackmore |
| 1955 | November | Night Must Fall | Emlyn Williams |
| 1955 | February | The Boy with a Cart | |
| 1954 | Autumn | The Devil’s Disciple | G.B.Shaw |
| 1954 | April | The Hollow | |
| 1953 | Spring | The Shop at Sly Corner | Percy |
| 1953 | Autumn | The Noble Spaniard | Somerset Maugham |
| 1952 | Spring | Fools Rush In | Home |
| 1952 | May | Flare Path | Terence Ratigan |
| 1952 | Autumn | Twelfth Night | Shakespeare |
| 1951 | Spring | Ladies in Retirement | Percy & Denham |
| 1951 | May | Little Lambs Eat Ivy | Langley |
| 1951 | Autumn | Night was our Friend | Pertwee |
| 1950 | Spring | The Chiltern Hundreds | Douglas Home |
| 1950 | Autumn | A Bill of Divorcement | Dane |
| 1949 | Spring | Full House | Ivor Novello |
| 1949 | Autumn | And no birds sing | Lard & Fennald |
| 1948 | Spring | Double Door | |
| 1948 | Autumn | Quiet Weekend | McCracken |
| 1947 | Autumn | Dark Brown | |
| 1947 | Autumn | Magic Suit | |
| 1947 | Autumn | Elizabeth Refuses | |
| 1946 | Autumn | Fresh Fields |