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Our Past Productions:

1946-1986

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1947

(early)

East of Eden, directed Thora Sugrue

 

 

 

 

 

The Monkey’s Paw (Jacobs) directed Nat Moss

 

 

 

 

Spring

Public reading of The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) in the Music Room, Staff Hotel, with Kay Bannerman, Nat Moss, Ferol Betts, John Stewart

 

 

 

 

Dec

You Can’t Take It With You (Kaufman and Hart) dir.

 

 

 

1948

 

The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) dir. Betty Leighton

 

 

 

 

 

Three One Act Plays: The Dear Departed, The Bishop’s Candlesticks, and ?

 

 

 

1949

Spring

Blithe Spirit (Coward) dir. Peter Stewart

 

 

 

 

Fall

George Washington Slept Here (Kaufman and Hart) dir. Nat Moss, ass. dir. Mae Carmichael

 

 

 

1950

Apr/May

The Circle of Chalk (Klabund, trans. James Laver) dir. Nat Moss and Trudy Goldschmitt. First Festival entry. Best Actress Award to Norma Renault.

 

 

 

 

Oct.

Out of the Frying Pan

 

 

Magic in the Air

 

 

 

 

Nov.

A Murder Has Been Arranged (Emlyn Williams) dir. Betty Leighton

 

 

 

 

Dec

Up and Atom (Revue)

 

 

 

1951

Feb

Arms and the Man (Shaw) dir. Ivan (Dick) Fowler, taken to Pembroke, Renfrew and Grant Hall (Kingston) for EODL Festival). Best Supporting Actress Norma Renault.

 

 

 

 

Apr.

Poison Pen (Christie) dir. Jim Baird.

 

 

 

 

Oct.

Course given by Arthur Claire

 

 

 

 

Fall

Harvey (Mary Chase) dir. Nat Moss, taken to Petawawa.

 

 

 

1952

Mar.

Arsenic and Old Lace (Kesselring) dir. Mae Carmichael, taken to Pembroke.

 

 

 

 

Fall

Two Blind Mice folded in rehearsal.

 

 

 

1953

April

See How They Run (Phillip King) dir. Mary Davies

 

 

 

 

May

Hop, Skip and Jump (Revue)

 

 

 

 

Sept

Michael Meiklejohn’s Directors’ Course.

 

 

 

 

Nov.

Bell, Book and Candle (Van Druten) dir. Bill Prosser (first play to run 2 nights)

 

 

 

 

Dec

Fumed Oak (Coward) dir. Val Mackintosh (first play at Hill House at joint Choral and Drama party)

 

 

 

1954

Feb

Calliope (Revue)

 

 

 

 

Mar

Rise and Shine (Elda Cadogan) dir. Freda Laurence.

 

 

 

 

Apr.

Busman’s Honeymoon (Dorothy Sayers and M. St. Clare Byrne) dir. Val Mackintosh

 

 

 

 

Oct

First visit of Canadian Players (St. Joan) sponsored by DRP.

 

 

 

 

Nov

Overlaid (Robertson Davies) dir. John Stewart

 

 

 

 

Nov

Sunday Costs Five Pesos (Niggli) dir. Isabel Woolston. Taken to City of Ottawa Festival. Best Actress Lorna Bourns

 

 

 

 

Dec

My Three Angels (Sam and Bella Spewack) dir. Val Mackintosh

 

 

 

1955

Feb

The Other Half (Elda Cadogan) dir. Freda Laurence

 

 

 

 

Feb

At My Heart’s Core (Davies) dir. Sheila Dyne

 

 

 

 

Mar

The Fisherman (original play by Neil Fairlie) dir. Val Mackintosh

 

 

 

 

Apr.

The Male Animal (James Thurber and Elliott Nugent) dir. John Cantelon.

 

 

 

 

May

The Marriage Proposal (Chekov) dir. Peter Dyne

 

 

 

 

Nov

Bonaventure (Charlotte Hastings) dir. Peter Dyne

 

 

 

1956

Feb

The Late Christopher Bean (Sidney Howard) dir. Bill Prosser

 

 

 

 

Mar

The Invisible Worm (E. Cadogan) dir. Freda Laurence

 

 

 

 

Apr

Sorry Wrong Number (Babette Hughes) dir. Val Mackintosh pith the Teen Theatre Course, run from Jan to May)

 

 

 

 

May

Words and Music (with the Choral Group)

 

 

The Fisherman (Neil Pairlie) dir, Peter Dyne

 

 

A Phoenix Too Frequent (Pry) dir. Sheila Dyne

 

 

 

 

May

Why I am a Bachelor (Conrad Seiller) dir Val Mackintosh (with the Teen Theatre Course)

 

 

 

 

Nov.

The Chrysallis (original play by Isabel Woolston) dir. Isabel Woolston.

 

 

 

 

Nov.

Night Must Fall (Emlyn Williams) dir. Mae Carmichael and Peter Dyne

 

 

 

1957

Feb

Two Dozen Red Roses (Aldo de Benedetti and Kenneth Horne) dir. Sheila Dyne

 

 

 

 

Mar

Hangs Over Thy Head dir. Freda Laurence

 

 

 

 

May

Words and Music with the Choral Group

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May

Elizabeth Refuses (Margaret MacNamara, from Jane Austen) dir. Irene Siddall

 

 

 

 

Nov.

On Dartmoor (Neil Grant) dir. Tony Hitchman

 

 

 

1957

Nov

The Holly and the Ivy (Wynyarde Browne) dir. Val  Mackintosh. Taken to EODL Festival in Ottawa in Feb. Honorable Mention to Gordon Brookes and Bill Prosser

 

 

 

 

Dec

Judy Lawrence Puppet Show

 

 

 

 

Dec

The Drums of Oude dir Sheila Dyne

 

 

 

1958

Feb

The Shop at Sly Corner (Edward Percy) dir Dorothy Grummitt

 

 

 

 

Apr

Jackpot (Revue) dir. Lorna Bourns

 

 

 

 

Apr

Rouge Atomigue (Richard Nash) first play in the round. Dir. Dick Attree. Taken to Pembroke.

 

 

 

 

May

Joint Owners in Spain (Alice Brown) dir. Isabel Woolston

 

 

 

 

Oct

Portrait of a Gentleman in Slippers (A.A.Milne) dir. Mort Bercovitch

 

 

 

 

Nov.

The Heiress (Ruth and Augustus Goetz from Henry James) dir. Peter Dyne.

 

 

 

 

Dec.

The Clown Who Ran Away dir. Nancy Bercovitch. First child­ren’s play.

 

 

 

1959

Feb

The Laboratory (David Compton) dir. D. Grummitt. Winner at Smith Falls Festival in Mar.

 

 

 

 

Mar

Dear Delinquent (J. Popplewell) dir. Tony Hitchman

 

 

 

 

Apr

The Shrew (Shakespeare, adapted Isabel Woolston) dir. Isabel Woolston.

 

 

 

 

May

Child Drama Course given by Brian Way in Sudbury

 

 

 

 

May

Trifles (Susan Glaspell) dir. Val Mackintosh

 

 

 

 

Fall

The Shrew taken to a workshop in Kingston.

 

 

 

 

Oct

Hands Across the Sea (Coward) dir. Freda Laurence

 

 

 

 

Nov

The Man Who Came To Dinner (Kaufman and Hart) dir. Mae Carmichael

 

 

 

 

Dec

Entertainment for children

 

 

 

1960

Jan/Feb

East Lynne (a condensed version of John Oxenford’s melodrama, from Mrs. Henry Woods) dir. Sheila Dyne

 

 

 

 

Feb

Separate Table (Rattigan) dir. D. Grummitt and Michael Meiklejohn. Festival entry. Best supporting actress Val Mackintosh

 

 

 

 

Apr

Aria da Capa (Edna St. Vincent Millay) dir. Tony Hitchman

 

 

 

 

May

The Twelve Pound Look (Barrie) dir. May Robertson

 

 

How He Lied To Her Husband (Shaw) dir. John Walley

 

 

 

 

Sept

Course

 

 

 

 

Oct

Hello Out There (Saroyan) dir Nancy Bercovitch

 

 

 

 

Nov

Clerembard (Marcel Ayme) dir. John Walley

 

 

 

 

Dec

The Dragon Who Giggled (Elizabeth McCormick) dir. Nancy Bercovitch

 

 

 

1961

Jan

Sweet Sounds, with the Choral Group.

 

 

Reading of The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (Shaw) dir. Isabel Woolston

 

 

 

 

Feb

Overruled (Shaw), dir. Peter Dyne.

 

 

 

 

Mar

The Skin of our Teeth (Thornton Wilder), dir. Sheila Dyne

 

 

 

 

May

The Curious Savage (Patrick) dir. Freda Laurence

 

 

 

 

May

Electra (Sophocles) dir. Val Mackintosh. Entry in first EODL One-Act Festival. Best Supporting Actor Mort Bercovitch

 

 

 

 

Aug

Revue for Yacht Club dir. Sylvia Harmon

 

 

 

 

Nov

The Anniversary (Chekov), dir. Pat Moore

 

 

 

 

Nov

Someone Waiting (Emlyn Williams) dir. Val Mackintosh

 

 

 

 

Dec

The Magic Wheel (original play by Isabel Woolston) dir. Freda Laurence

 

 

 

 

Xmas

CHOV Nativity play

 

 

 

1962

Feb

The Door (original play by Neil Fairlie) dir. John Walley

 

 

 

 

May

The Door (Fairlie) dir. Peter Dyne. Entered in EODL One-Act at Deep River.

 

 

 

 

May

Major Barbara (Shaw) dir. Pat Moore

 

 

 

 

June

Two Gentlemen of Soho (A.P. Herbert) dir. Sheila Dyne

 

 

 

 

Summer

Junior course run by Nancy Bercovitch, Senior by Pat Moore.

 

 

 

 

Oct

No Exit (Sartre) dir. Tony Hitchman

 

 

 

 

Nov

You Can’t Take It With You (Kaufman and Hart) dir. Mae Carmichael

 

 

 

 

Dec

Life of Hercules, Page One (Thomas Cruden) dir Freda Laurence.

 

 

 

 

Dec

The Emperor’s New Clothes (Charlotte Chorpenning) dir. Nancy Bercovitch

 

 

 

1963

Feb

The Dock Brief (John Mortimer) dir. Val Mackintosh. To EODL Festival at Smith Falls. Runner-up to Best Play, Bill Beale Best Actor, with Mort Bercovitch as Runner-up. To Central Ontario Showcase Festival in May

 

 

 

 

Feb

The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Ray Lawler) dir. Pat Moore. To EODL Festival.

 

 

 

 

June

Box and Cox dir. John Walley

 

 

 

 

Summer

Junior Workshop, Nancy Bercovitch

 

 

Esme Crampton Workshop

 

 

 

 

Nov

A Resounding Tinkle (N.F. Simpson) dir Sheila Wikhammer

 

 

 

 

Nov

The Madwoman of Chaillot (Giraudoux) dir. Val Mackintosh

 

 

 

1964

Feb

The Red Velvet Goat (Niggli) dir. Isabel Woolston

 

 

 

 

Mar

Pajama Game dir. John Walley

 

 

 

 

May

A Man of Destiny (Shaw) dir. Ray Cohen

 

 

 

 

May

Still Life (Coward) dir, Tony Hitchman

 

 

 

 

Nov

Crawling Arnold (Jules Feiffer) dir. Sheila. Wikhammer

 

 

 

 

Dec

The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (Liam O’Brien) dir. Freda

 

 

Laurence

 

 

 

1965

Feb

A Village Wooing (Shaw) Dir. Sheila Dyne

 

 

 

 

Apr

Riders to the Sea (Synge) dir Ian Oldaker

 

 

 

 

May

The Sandbox (Albee) dir. Nancy Bercovitch

 

 

 

 

Sept

Workshop by Richard Howard

 

 

 

 

Oct

The Lunch Hour (Mortimer) dir. Nancy Bercovitch

 

 

 

 

Dec

The Unexpected Guest (Christie) dir. Val Mackintosh and Jeff Scoberg

 

 

 

1966

Feb

The Tricoloured Suite (Peter S. Peterson) dir. Freda Laurence.

 

 

 

 

Mar

Gallows Humor (Jack Richardson) dir. Val Mackintosh

Entry in EODL Festival

 

 

 

 

Apr

Paul Thompson Forever (Mordecai Gorelik) dir Jeff Scoberg

 

 

 

 

May

Hecuba (Euripedes) dir. Isabel Woolston

 

 

 

 

Dec

The Absence of A Cello (Ira Wallach) dir. Nancy Bercovitch

First full-length play done in Hill House.

 

 

 

1967

Feb

A Castle in the Village (Verna Woskosf) dir. Freda Laurence

 

 

 

 

Mar

The Drunkard (W.H.Smith, adapted I. Woolston) dir. Isabel Woolston

 

 

 

 

May

The Private Ear (Shaffer) dir. Barry Bielby

 

 

 

 

Oct

The Public Eye (Shaffer) dir. Val Mackintosh

 

 

 

 

Nov

The Tiger (Murray Schaffer) dir. Val Mackintosh. To EODL Festival at Lindsay. Charlotte McWilliam Runner-up to Best Actress.

 

 

 

 

Dec

Mary, Mary (Jean Kerr) dir. Barry Bielby

 

 

 

 

Dec

Snowwhite Turned Blue (New Year’s Eve entertainment)

 

 

 

1968

Feb

Harrop’s Music Hall

 

 

 

 

Mar

The Courting of Marie Jenvrin (Ringwood) dir. Freda Laurence

 

 

 

 

Apr

The Questioning of Nick (Koppit) dir. Bill Beale

 

 

The Ascent of Everest (Koppit) dir. Val Mackintosh

 

 

 

 

Oct

Acting Course given by Phyllis Living

 

 

 

 

Oct

Here We Are (Parker) dir. Barry Bielby

 

 

Pinter Sketches dir Jim Harrop

 

 

The Street of Good Friends dir. Tony Tyler

 

 

 

 

Nov

The Apollo of Bellac (Giraudoux) dir Freda Laurence

 

 

 

 

Dec

Do You Come Here Often? (Original musical by Mike Carver, Don McPherson, Dave Thomson) dir. Dave Thomson and Eric Le Surf, Mus. Dir. Don McPherson.

 

 

 

1969

Feb

Cupid is a Bum, is a Bum dir. Neil Smith

 

 

 

 

Apr

The Lottery (Brainerd Duffield from Shirley Jackson) dir. Charlotte McWilliam

 

 

 

 

May

The Odd Couple (Simon) dir. Barry Bielby

 

 

 

 

Oct

The Bald Soprano (Ionescu) dir. Val Mackintosh. To EODL Festival at Peterborough. Best Play; Mae Carmichael Best Actress; Bill Beale Runnerup to Best Actor; May Robertson Runner-up to Best Supporting Actress; Roy Malone Runner-up to Best Supporting Actor; Marion McPherson Runner-up to Best Visual; Val Mackintosh Runner-Up to Best Director.

 

 

 

 

Dec

Barefoot in the Park (Simon) dir. Neil Smith

 

 

 

1970

Jan

Peter Cochrane Acting Course

 

 

 

 

Mar

Squat Betty (Mortimer) dir. Pat Griffiths

 

 

 

 

Mar

Angel Street (Patrick Hamilton) dir Bill Beale

 

 

 

 

May

Collect Your Handbaggage (Mortimer) dir. Freda Laurence

 

 

 

 

Nov

Hands Across the Sea (Coward) dir. Freda Laurence

 

 

 

 

Dec

The Tunnel of Love (Joseph Fields and Peter Do Vries) dir. Val Mackintosh

 

 

 

1971

Feb

Ad Lib (Revue)

 

Mar

Hobson’s Choice (Harold Brighouse) dir. Jim Harrop

 

 

 

 

Mar

The Boor (Chekov) dir. May Robertson

 

 

 

1971

May

Androcles and the Lion (Shaw) dir. Isabel Woolston

 

 

 

 

Oct

I Spy (Mortimer) dir. Val Mackintosh. EODL Festival in Nov. Lorna Bourns Best Actress.

 

 

 

 

Nov

An Evening with Needham

 

 

 

 

Dec

Dinner, Pub and Dance. Pinter Sketches, dir. Jim Harrop

 

 

 

1972

Jan

The Complaisant Lover (Graham Greene) dir. Pat Griffiths

 

 

 

 

Feb

In Confidence (Peter Coke) dir. Freda Laurence

 

 

 

 

Mar

Hello Dolly joint DRP and Choral Group. Dir. Barry Bielby

 

 

 

 

Apr.

The Crucible (Miller) dir. Geffrey Saville-Read (professional)

 

 

 

 

Nov

The Love Mouse (Sheldon Rosen) dir Chris Ward. Taken to non-competitive Festival at Lakefield.

 

 

 

 

Dec

Plaza Suite (Simon) dirs. Barry Bielby and Pat Griffiths

 

 

 

1973

Feb

Erpingham Camp (Orton) dir. Ian Mitchell and Phyllis Mitchell

 

 

 

 

Mar

The Entertainer (Osborne) dir. Neil Smith. To EODL Festival Kingston. Adjudicator’s award to the orchestra.

 

 

 

 

Apr

Lysistrata (Aristophanes) dir. David Mosey

 

 

 

 

Aug

Antigone (Sophocles) dir. Ron Davies

 

 

 

 

Sept

Poetry Reading arranged by David Mosey

 

 

 

 

Oct

Trevor (John Bowen) dir. Chris Ward

 

 

 

 

Dec

The School for Scandal (Sheridan) dir Daniel Walsh (Pro)

 

 

 

1974

Feb

Krapps Last Tape (Beckett) dir. Val Mackintosh

 

 

 

 

Mar

White Liars (Shaffer.) dir. John Edgecombe

 

 

 

 

May

The Music Man (Meredith Wilson) combined with Choral Group, dir. Niel Poulsen

 

 

 

 

May

A Resounding Tinkle (N.F,Simpson) dir. Chris Ward, taken to Workshop Festival at Lindsay, where 4 groups presented the same play

 

 

 

 

Sept

Sorry Wrong Number (Babette Hughes) dir. Niel Poulsen

 

 

 

 

Oct

Marble Arch (John Mortimer) dir. Maureen Bindner

 

 

Mill Hill (John Mortimer) dir. Audrey Dawson, to non—competitive Festival at Kingston.

 

 

 

 

Dec

The Mousetrap (Christie) dir. Pat Griffiths.

 

 

 

1975

Feb

The Browning Version (Rattigan) dir. May Robertson

 

 

 

 

Mar

The Killing of Sister George dir. Neil Smith

 

 

 

 

May

Pygmalian (Shaw) dir. Val Mackintosh

 

 

 

 

Dec

Fiddler on the Roof (Joseph Stein) joint Choral GrouD, Drama Club and I.M.A. production. Dir. Neil Smith, Mus. Dir, Doug Salmon, Orchestra Conductor Jim Wegg.

 

 

 

1976

Feb

The Real Inspector Hound (Stoppard) dir. Ian Mitchell

 

 

 

 

Mar

The Enchanted (Giraudoux) dir. Frank Morris (Pro.) Entry in EODL Three-Act Festival, Niel Poulsen and Anne Seck Best Visual; Peterborough Award for the Best Use of Speech to whole production.

 

 

 

 

Sept

Chris Ward directing course

 

 

 

 

Oct

After Magritte (Stoppard) dir. Ian Mitchell

 

 

Rouge Atomigue (Kash) dir. Val Mackintosh. Taken to EODL One-Act Fetival at Belleville. Hon. Men. to Rita O’Byrne and Audrey Dawson.

 

 

 

 

Dec

Come Into the Garden, Maud (Coward) dir. Freda Laurence Was She Sown or Was She Reaped (J.Kilpatrick) dir. Neil Smith

 

 

 

1977

Feb

Mr. Foot

 

 

Chinamen (Michael Frayne) dir Chris Ward

 

 

 

 

Mar

The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde) dir. Niel Poulsen

 

Dec

The Gingerbread Lady (Simon) dir. Pat Griffiths

 

 

 

1978

Feb

Boeing Boeing (Marc Carmoletti, dir. Maureen Bindner

 

 

 

 

May

Ladies in Retirement (Percy and Denham) dir. Isabel Woolston

 

 

 

 

May

Acting Course, Peter Cochrane

 

 

 

 

Oct

Gladly Otherwise (N.F. Simpson) dir. Pat Burn

 

 

 

 

Nov

Move Over Mrs. Markham (Cooney and Chapman) dir. Val Mackintosh

 

 

 

1979

Mar

Prisoner of Second Avenue (Neil Simon), dir. Pat Burn

 

 

 

 

May

The Hollow Crown (John Barton), dir. Chris Ward

 

 

 

 

May

Mr. Flannery’s Ocean, dir. Isabel Woolston

 

 

Three short skits, dir. Kathleen Leavens

 

 

 

 

Oct 

The Trumpet, dir. Catherine Caesar

 

 

 

 

Nov

Count Dracula (Ted Tiller), dir. Chris Ward

 

 

 

1980

early

Pub Night

 

 

 

 

Mar

And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little (Paul Zindel), dir. Neil Smith

 

 

 

 

Nov

Black Comedy (Peter Shaffer), dir. Bill Beale and Christine Ward

 

 

 

1981

Nov

Oliver! (Lionel Bart, from Dickens), dir. Neil Smith

 

 

 

1982

Oct

The Twin Sinks of Allan Sammy (Norman Holland), dir. Kim Williams

 

 

A Day of Reckoning (Cam Hubert), dir. Audrey Dawson and Chris Ward

 

 

(Two one-act plays in cooperation with Mackenzie H.S. Theatre Arts Co.)

 

 

 

 

Nov

Sinbad and the Mermaid (Chris Wiggins”, dir. Debbie Denault and Helen Griffiths (Deep River Junior Players’ first show)

 

 

 

1983

Jan

Pub Night

 

 

 

 

Apr

The Elephant Man (Bernard Pomerance), dir. Neil Smith & Nancy Winnegar

 

 

 

 

Oct

Trifles (Susan Glaspell), dir. Charlotte McWilliam, hosting the Eastern Ontario Drama League One Act Festival 1983.

 

 

 

 

Dec

Habeas Corpus (Alan Bennett), dir. Greg Miller

 

 

 

1984

Mar

A Doll’s House (Ibsen), dir. Christine Ward

 

 

 

 

Nov

The Pushcart Peddlars (Murray Shisgal), dir. Gerg Miller

 

 

 

1985

Mar

Murder at the Howard Johnsons (Ron Clark and Sam Bobrick), dir. Ron Davis

 

 

 

 

Nov

See How They Run (Philip King), dir. Maureen Bindner

 

 

 

 

Dec

Let’s Hear it for Christmas!

 

 

 

1986

Dec

Walter (Murray Schisgal), dir. Anne Seddon