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2025<\/strong>
Nov: Cranford by Martyn Coleman & Elizabeth Gaskell
May: Murder In Play by Simon Brett<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

2024<\/strong>
Nov: A Christmas Carol by Robert Tremayne after Charles Dickens
May: If I Were You by Alan Ayckbourn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/strong>
Nov: Three by Two – An evening of three one act plays
May: Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022<\/strong>
Nov: Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton postponed<\/em>
May: Death by Design by Rob Urbinati<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021<\/strong>
Nov: Private Lives by Noel Coward
July: Alfresco with Coward and Cole (concert<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020<\/strong>
No productions due to COVID pandemic<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019<\/strong>
Nov: Private Lives postponed<\/em>
May: How The Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/strong>
Nov: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
May: No production<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017<\/strong>
Nov: The Light of Heart
May: Duets<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016<\/strong>
Nov: Blithe Spirit
May: Blithe Spirit postponed<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015<\/strong>
Nov: Nightmare
May: The Ladykillers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/strong>
Autumn: Nightingales
Spring: The Chalk Garden<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013<\/strong>
Autumn: Quartet
Spring: Far From the Madding Crowd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012<\/strong>
Autumn: Life and Beth
Spring: When We Are Married<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011<\/strong>
Autumn: Virtuous Burglar\/Shopping for Charity
Spring: The Ditchling Story<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010<\/strong>
Autumn: The Gentle Hook
Spring: Multiple Murder (Murder Mystery Evening<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009<\/strong>
Season’s Greetings
Alphabetical Order<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

2007<\/strong>
Daisy Pulls it Off
A Murder Is Announced
Mother Goose<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006<\/strong>
Murder Mystery evenings
The Importance of Being Earnest
Icicles Hang By the Wall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2005<\/strong>
Ladies In Retirement
Our Finest Hour<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2004<\/strong>
The Deep Blue Sea
Miracle Worker
Salad Days<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2003<\/strong>
It Could Be Any One of Us
Tarantara, Tarantara<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2002<\/strong>
Outside Edge
Lettice and Lovage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2001<\/strong>
Present Laughter
Five Finger Exercise
Cinderella<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2000<\/strong>
An Evening With Michael Legat
Our Town
It’ll Be Alright On The Night
Dick Whittington<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1999<\/strong>
Blithe Spirit
The Winslow Boy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1998<\/strong>
A Visit from Miss Protheroe; A Chip in the Sugar; A Lady of Letters
Gigi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1997<\/strong>
Time of My Life
The Boyfriend<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1996<\/strong>
On Golden Pond
Habeas Corpus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1995<\/strong>
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Deathtrap<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1994<\/strong>
The Living Room
The Magistrate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1993<\/strong>
Waiting in the Wings
A Chorus of Disapproval<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1992<\/strong>
You Can’t Take it With You
The Linden Tree<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1991<\/strong>
Ring Around the Moon
Breath of Spring<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1990<\/strong>
Waters of the Moon
Pink String and Sealing Wax<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1989<\/strong>
The Ghost Train
Ghosts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1988<\/strong>
Voyage Round My Father
The Sacred Flame<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1987<\/strong>
Dock Brief; Harlequinade
Peter Pan
Pack of Lies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1986<\/strong>
On the Run
Lloyd George Knew My Father<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1985<\/strong>
Wind of Heaven
Michael; Villa for Sale<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1984<\/strong>
Quartermain’s Terms
The Matchmaker<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1983<\/strong>
The Murder of Maria Marten<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1982<\/strong>
Ten Times Table
Hayfever<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1981<\/strong>
The Crucible
The Ditching Paneant
Arsenic and Old Lace<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1980<\/strong>
The Anniversary
Suddenly at Home<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1979<\/strong>
The Cherry Orchard
Relative Values<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1978<\/strong>
Angels in Love
The Brontes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1977<\/strong>
The House on the Cliff
The Importance of Being Earnest
Cinderella<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1976<\/strong>
After My Fashion
Time and Time Again<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1975<\/strong>
Separate Tables
The Book of the Month<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1974<\/strong>
The Queen and the Welshman
Fool’s Paradise<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1973<\/strong>
I Have Been Here Before<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1972<\/strong>
No productions: building of the new Village Hall<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1971<\/strong>
The Largest Soul
The Ditchling Pageant<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1970<\/strong>
The Women Have Their Way
Stop, Look, Listen (Festival Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1969<\/strong>
The Lion in Winter
A Letter From the General
Alice Through the Looking Glass<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1968<\/strong>
Variety 68
Murder in Motley<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1967<\/strong>
I Remember Mama
The Cresta Run<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1966<\/strong>
Variety Show
The Deep Blue Sea
The Good Person of Szechwan
Charly’s Aunt<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1965<\/strong>
Two Dozen Red Roses
Waiting in the Wings<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1964<\/strong>
The Good Days to Come
On Monday Next<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1963<\/strong>
She Stoops to Conquer
We Have Company
St Simon Stylites; What Shall We Tell Caroline?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1962<\/strong>
Home at Seven
Anastasia
The Ditchling Lamp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1961<\/strong>
Murder in the Cathedral
The Ditchling Pageant
Both Ends Meet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1960<\/strong>
The Heiress
Bird in Hand
Dear Departed; New Pastures; The Happy Journey (“Entertainment For All Ages”)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1959<\/strong>
The Chalk Garden
When We Are Married<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1958<\/strong>
A Question of Fact
The Druid’s Rest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1957<\/strong>
Take Two From One
Waters of the Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1956<\/strong>
The Boy With the Cart; Phoenix Too Frequent
Noah
The Reluctant Dragon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1955<\/strong>
Sixteen
Life with Father
Goldilocks and the Three Bears<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1954<\/strong>
Tobias and the Angel
The Corn is Green<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1953<\/strong>
Treasure Hunt
Pier’s Plowman’s Pilgrimage
The Importance of Being Earnest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1952<\/strong>
The White Haired Boy
Falling Upstairs; They All Came Back; Merrie Mock Morris
Hayfever<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1951<\/strong>
Pygmalion
The Ditchling Pageant
The Farmer’s Wife<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1950<\/strong>
The Linden Tree
The Ditchling Pageant
George and Margaret<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1949<\/strong>
Lady Precious Stream
A Hundred Years Old<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1948<\/strong>
Murder on the Second Floor
Cradle Song<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1947<\/strong>
The Late Christopher Bean
They Came to a City<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1946<\/strong>
Nine Til Six
Cranford<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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