History of Semi-Circle Productions since 1975

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2020 to 2024

Lockdown in Little Grimley (Tristram) - November 2020

2015 to 2019

Sweet Expectations What's Been Bugging Stuart (Hannah), Platinum (Bonner), Swiss Twist (Hannah), Time Flies (Ives), While you were Sleeping (Braun), Eugenically Speaking (Goodman) -  November 2019

Don't Drink The Water (Allen) - June 2019

Lucky Thirteen - Rehearsed Play Readings - Final Curtain  (Gibbons), What’s Been Bugging Stuart (Hannah), Controlling Interest (Rawle), Bit of a Gossip (Gibbons), Can Can (Linney), The Love Potion (Barr), Leading Ladies (Simpkin), Act Without Words (Beckett), Table for Two (Middaugh), Matterhorn (Orloff), The Food Rationing Auction (Lovesy/Two), Writers Group (Jensen), Post-Its (Notes on a Marriage) (Dooley/Holzman) - March 2019.

FRIENDSHIPS?  Carbon Dating (Matus), Over the Top (Parker), A.I. Guy (Edgington), Four Yorkshirewomen in Basel, Playing with Daisy (Fossey) - November 2018

Top Girls  (Churchill) - June 2018

Secrets  Love Forty (Hannah), Waiting (Creighton), Death Knocks (Allen), A Respectable Funeral (Chinn)  –  October/November 2017

Blithe Spirit  (Coward)  –  June 2017

An Evening of David Campton plays  - Rehearsed play readings -  What's a Name?, Night Watch,  Volunteer, Home from Home, Hunt up, Who?, Token of Esteem, Octopus, Yellow in the Autumn Sunlight, The Parcel   –  February 2017

Autumn 2016  The Zoo Story (Albee), Alas, poor Fred (Saunders)  –  November 2016

Dracula   (Balderstone & Deane / McNulty)  –  June 2016

True Colours  My Apology (Allan), Syrinx (Mosse), Sand to the Egyptians (Yates), Sure Thing (Ives)           –  November 2015

Entertaining Angels   (Everett)  –  June 2015

2010 - 2014

Distraction   1-900-Desperate (Durang), Marigolds Piling on the Agony (Chambers), Naomi in the Living Room (Durang), Late Entry (Tristram)  –  November 2014

Calendar Girls  (Firth)  –  June 2014

Greener Grass   Losing it (Webb), Mixed Doubles (Feydeau), DMV Tyrant (Durang), The Extraordinary
Revelations of Orca the Goldfish (Tristram)  –  November 2013

A Murder is Announced  (Christie)  –  June 2013

Duplicity   Foul Territory (Wright), Creep (Cristy), Jerry Springer is God (Pelfrey), Game Theory (Sagal), The Dear Departed (Houghton), Medea (Durang/Wasserstein)  –  September 2012

The Shadow Box  (Cristofer)  –  April 2012

Looking Back, Falling Forward   Death of a Clown (Beard), Ruby of Elsinore (Kane), Norma (Owen), Night (Pinter)  –  October 2011

RENT  (Larson)  –  June 2011

Unoriginal Sin  (Tristram)  –  October/November 2010

Quartet  (Harwood)  –  February 2010

2005 - 2009

Bouncers and Shakers  (Godbar & Thornton)  –  October/November 2009

Hidden Lives   Folie à Trois (Wooley), Behind the Curtain (Macauliffe)  –  April 2009

A Streetcar named Desire  (Williams)  –  November 2008

Down & Out  Rabbit (Foxton), The Author's Voice (Greenberg), The Cavern (Gater), As Good as New (Perry)  –  May 2008

Role Play  (Ayckbourn)  –  September 2007

Spring 2007   Expert in Flowers (Jaquet), Shop for Charity (Mander), The Celebration (Chekhov) 
–  May 2007

Behind Bars  The Cagebirds (Campton), Babysitting Calvin (Newmeir)  –  September 2006

Same Time, Next Year  (Slade)  –  February / March 2006

The Memory of Water   (Stephenson)  –  September 2005

Paradise Lost   Homecoming (Sievert & Jaquet), Squashed (Young), The Fear of Heaven (Mortimer) 
–  April 2005

2000 - 2004

Arms and the Man  (Shaw)  –  October 2004

Spring 2004  Time Flies (Ives), Feeding the Ducks (Park), Three Women (Brown), Red Spy at Night (King)  –  May 2004

Oliver  (Bart)  –  November/December 2003

An Evening of A.R. Gurney Plays  The Love Course, A Guest Lecturer –  June 2003

An Evening of Sketches   The Ox Fodder Crisis (Stafford), Zoo Perspectives (the Semi-Circle Writers Group), War Fuel (Todd), Bus Ride (Walder), Mobile Mania (Scherer) – March 2003

The Hollow Crown  (Barton)   –  June and September 2002

Spring 2002  Careful Rapture (Popplewell), A Talk in the Park (Ayckbourn), Guts (Sievert)  –  April 2002

Autumn 2001    Identity Crisis (Burns), Diary of a Bad Housewife (Limb), The Proposal (Checkov)  –  October 2001

Rumours  (Simon)   –  June 2001

Straight & Narrow   (Chinn)   –  October 2000

Spring 2000  On Hold at 30,000 Feet (Burns), Sharks in the Custard (Layton), The Doctor in Spite of Himself (Molière)  –  May 2000

1995 Autum - Season's Greetings1995 - 1999

A Chorus of Disapproval  (Ayckbourn)  –  October 1999

March 1999  An Englishman Abroad (Bennett), The Problem (Gurney), Cold Salmon (Bowen) 
–  March 1999

Will Power  - An Evening of Entertainment with Shakespeare  –  October 1998

March 1998  Between Mouthfuls (Ayckbourn), Albert (Harris), Joining the Club (Tristram)  –  March 1998

Doctor in the House  (Gordon & Willis)  –  October 1997

March 1997  Roll Over (Stafford), Actor’s Nightmare (Durang), Last Panto in Little Grimley (Tristram) 
–  March 1997

Arsenic and Old Lace  (Kesselring)  –  October 1996

March 1996  Interior Designs (Chinn), A Cut in the Rates (Ayckbourn), The Rats (Christie), Jeffrey Barnard Is Unwell (Waterhouse)  –  March 1996

Season's Greetings   (Alan Ayckbourn)  –  October 1995

March 1995   Green Forms (Bennett), Sure Thing (Ives), Last Tango in Little Grimley (Tristram) 
–  March 1995

1990 - 1994

You Can't Take It With You  (Hart & Kaufmann)  –  October 1994

March 1994  Lunch Hour (Mortimer), Phones (Morris), The Man in a Case (Wasserstein), A Jolly Sinister Jape (Strange)  – March 1994

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime  (Wilde)  –  October 1993

Talking Heads  A Lady of Letters, Her Big Chance, Bad among the Lentils (all by Bennett) 
–  May 1993 

Spring 1993  A Sense of the Ridiculous (Terence), Sweet Caroline Sweet (Edwards), George (Hickmann) 
–  March 1993

An Inspector Calls  (Priestley)  –  November 1992

Spring 1992  Thermal Underwear (Davis), Bar Stools (Morris), What’s for Pudding? (Tristram) 
–  March 1992 

The Boy Friend  (Wilson)  –  October 1991

Nightmare  (Robbins)  –  March 1991

May 1990   Departure (Smith), Queer Street (Kelly)  –  May 1990

The Crucible   (Miller)  –  February 1990 

1987 - 1989

A Christmas Carol (Dickens)  –  a reading for charity  –  December 1989

1989 November  Five Revue Sketches (Pinter), Too long an Autumn (Chinn)  –  November 1989

Dear Liar  (Kilty)  –  September and again in November/December 1989

1989 May  May Knightsbridge (Mortimer), Round and Round the Gooseberry Bush (Shirley)  –  May 1989

Love for Love  (Congreve)  –  February 1989

The Pageant  The Paradise Pageant, The Nativity Pageant  –  December 1988

1988 May  Bus Stop (Shirley), Postal Orders (Pertwee), From Here to the Library (Chinn)  –  May 1988

I Remember Mama  (Van Druten)  –  March 1988

The Pageant  The Paradise Pageant, The Nativity Pageant – performed for charity  –  December 1987 

1987 November  Ara Di Capo (Millay), Womberang (Townsend)  –  November 1987

Red Carnations (Hughes)  –  August 1987

February - Pygmalion  (Shaw)  –  February 1987

A Respectable Funeral  (Chinn)  –  1987 - 1988