Past Shows

2023
May: Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton

2022
Nov: Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton postponed
May: Death by Design by Rob Urbinati

2021
Nov: Private Lives by Noel Coward
July: Alfresco with Coward and Cole (concert)

2020
No productions due to COVID pandemic

2019
Nov: Private Lives postponed
May: How The Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn

2018
Nov: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
May: No production

2017
Nov: The Light of Heart
May: Duets

2016
Nov: Blithe Spirit
May: Blithe Spirit postponed

2015
Nov: Nightmare
May: The Ladykillers

2014
Autumn: Nightingales
Spring: The Chalk Garden

2013
Autumn: Quartet
Spring: Far From the Madding Crowd

2012
Autumn: Life and Beth
Spring: When We Are Married

2011
Autumn: Virtuous Burglar/Shopping for Charity
Spring: The Ditchling Story

2010
Autumn: The Gentle Hook
Spring: Multiple Murder (Murder Mystery Evening)

2009
Season’s Greetings
Alphabetical Order

2008
As You Like it
Talking Heads (Soldiering On; Hand of God; Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet)

2007
Daisy Pulls it Off
A Murder Is Announced
Mother Goose

2006
Murder Mystery evenings
The Importance of Being Earnest
Icicles Hang By the Wall

2005
Ladies In Retirement
Our Finest Hour

2004
The Deep Blue Sea
Miracle Worker
Salad Days

2003
It Could Be Any One of Us
Tarantara, Tarantara

2002
Outside Edge
Lettice and Lovage

2001
Present Laughter
Five Finger Exercise
Cinderella

2000
An Evening With Michael Legat
Our Town
It’ll Be Alright On The Night
Dick Whittington

1999
Blithe Spirit
The Winslow Boy

1998
A Visit from Miss Protheroe; A Chip in the Sugar; A Lady of Letters
Gigi

1997
Time of My Life
The Boyfriend

1996
On Golden Pond
Habeas Corpus

1995
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Deathtrap

1994
The Living Room
The Magistrate

1993
Waiting in the Wings
A Chorus of Disapproval

1992
You Can’t Take it With You
The Linden Tree

1991
Ring Around the Moon
Breath of Spring

1990
Waters of the Moon
Pink String and Sealing Wax

1989
The Ghost Train
Ghosts

1988
Voyage Round My Father
The Sacred Flame

1987
Dock Brief; Harlequinade
Peter Pan
Pack of Lies

1986
On the Run
Lloyd George Knew My Father

1985
Wind of Heaven
Michael; Villa for Sale

1984
Quartermain’s Terms
The Matchmaker

1983
The Murder of Maria Marten

1982
Ten Times Table
Hayfever

1981
The Crucible
The Ditching Paneant
Arsenic and Old Lace

1980
The Anniversary
Suddenly at Home

1979
The Cherry Orchard
Relative Values

1978
Angels in Love
The Brontes

1977
The House on the Cliff
The Importance of Being Earnest
Cinderella

1976
After My Fashion
Time and Time Again

1975
Separate Tables
The Book of the Month

1974
The Queen and the Welshman
Fool’s Paradise

1973
I Have Been Here Before

1972
No productions: building of the new Village Hall

1971
The Largest Soul
The Ditchling Pageant

1970
The Women Have Their Way
Stop, Look, Listen (Festival Review)

1969
The Lion in Winter
A Letter From the General
Alice Through the Looking Glass

1968
Variety 68
Murder in Motley

1967
I Remember Mama
The Cresta Run

1966
Variety Show
The Deep Blue Sea
The Good Person of Szechwan
Charly’s Aunt

1965
Two Dozen Red Roses
Waiting in the Wings

1964
The Good Days to Come
On Monday Next

1963
She Stoops to Conquer
We Have Company
St Simon Stylites; What Shall We Tell Caroline?

1962
Home at Seven
Anastasia
The Ditchling Lamp

1961
Murder in the Cathedral
The Ditchling Pageant
Both Ends Meet

1960
The Heiress
Bird in Hand
Dear Departed; New Pastures; The Happy Journey (“Entertainment For All Ages”)

1959
The Chalk Garden
When We Are Married

1958
A Question of Fact
The Druid’s Rest

1957
Take Two From One
Waters of the Moon

1956
The Boy With the Cart; Phoenix Too Frequent
Noah
The Reluctant Dragon

1955
Sixteen
Life with Father
Goldilocks and the Three Bears

1954
Tobias and the Angel
The Corn is Green

1953
Treasure Hunt
Pier’s Plowman’s Pilgrimage
The Importance of Being Earnest

1952
The White Haired Boy
Falling Upstairs; They All Came Back; Merrie Mock Morris
Hayfever

1951
Pygmalion
The Ditchling Pageant
The Farmer’s Wife

1950
The Linden Tree
The Ditchling Pageant
George and Margaret

1949
Lady Precious Stream
A Hundred Years Old

1948
Murder on the Second Floor
Cradle Song

1947
The Late Christopher Bean
They Came to a City

1946
Nine Til Six
Cranford