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The Next 50 Years - 1999 to Today

For more details about each play, including cast lists and photos, see our Scrapbook page
     Year           Month                   Play                                                                       Author                             Director

1999
May

July




September

​
​November
​Murder in Green Meadows

Winter Shorts:
       Watermelon Boats
       Another Noah
       Ballot

Justice is a Snake

​
​Middle Age Spread
Douglas Post


Wendy MacLaughlin
Barry Grant
Tim Barcode

​Barry Grant and
Felicity Williams

​Roger Hall
Tamzin Darragh
 

Tamzin Darragh
Barry Grant
Stephen Austin

​Dir: Barry Grant
MD: Mark Hodgkinson
Chor: Justine Whitaker
Sam Fisher

2000
February

May

July

​
September

November
Aladdin

Extremities

Winter Shorts:
       (tba)

Mort

What the Butler Saw
Doug Clarke

William Mastrosimone




Stephen Briggs

​Joe Orton
Heather Giles

Barry Grant




Tom Vavasour

​Steve Austin

2001
March

May

​December
Gruzzlefummit

Bums on Seats

​The Memory of Water
Craig Thalne

Michael Snelgrove

​Shelagh Stephenson
Franc Bol

Barry Grant

​Nanette Wright

2002
February

April

June

​September
Love Letters

Do Not Disturb

Pinocchio

​Arsenic and Old Lace
A R Gurney

Michael Pertwee

Doug Clarke

​Joseph Kesselring


Marilyn Ollett

Heather Giles

​Tom Vavasour

2003
March

May

July

​November
Play Time

Something to Remember You By

The Three Little Pigs

​Play Time 2
Tom Vavasour

Jimmie Chinn

​Doug Clarke
Tom Vavasour

Marilyn Ollett

​Tom Vavasour

2004
February

May

July

​October
Play Time 3

As You Like It

Alice Through the Looking Glasses

​The Dresser


William Shakespeare

Marilyn Ollett

Ronald Harwood
Cami Marlowe

Maryanne Cathro

Melanie Camp and
Tom Vavasour
Melanie Camp

2005
July

August

​September
Lords and Ladies

GoldieSnowerellaHood

​‘Allo ‘Allo
Terry Pratchett

Bronwyn Ellesmore

Jeremy Lloyd and
​David Croft
Maryanne Cathro



Melanie Camp and
​Tom Vavasour

2006
February

April



July

​November
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Kiwi Shorts - One Act Plays:
       The Private War of Corporal Cooper
       Chook Chook

The Taming of the Shrew

​The Importance of Being Earnest
​Dale Wasserman
 

John Broughton
Fiona Farrell

William Shakespeare

​Oscar Wilde
Klaus Hermanspahn


Annette Thomson
Annette Thomson

Tom Vavasour

​Melanie Camp​

2007
January

May

tba





​September
Alice Barber and the Four Tea Thieves

Glide Time

Lounge Suite - Four Short Plays:
       Hard Stuff (Week 1)
       The Play Reading (Week 1)
       Computer Pals (Week 2)
       Curses!  Foiled Again (Week 2)

Silly Cow
Marilyn Ollett

Roger Hall


Jules Tasca
Joan Joney
Hindi Brooks
Evelyn Hood

​Ben Elton


Garry Thomas


Garry Thomas
Deirdre Tucker
Kris Vavasour
Heather Giles

​Maryanne Cathro

2008
March

May
​
August
Fred

My Mother Said I Never Should

​Macbeth
Beatrix Christian

Charlotte Keatley

​William Shakespeare
Anita Hallewas

Doug Clarke

​Sam Fisher

2009
January

June



​

October

​December
Waiting for Godot

Love Bites - 3 Short NZ Plays on Life and Love:
       Fault
       Swiss Cider
​
       Desperate and Dateless

What the Butler Saw

​Who Stole Father Christmas?
Samuel Beckett


Sam Fisher
Andre Surridge
​
Neil Troost

Joe Orton

​Sam Fisher



​Marilyn Ollett
Garry Thomas, assisted by Sarah Coursey
Kris Vavasour

Garry Thomas

Sam Fisher

2010
May
​
September
Last Tango in Little Grimley
​
Kiss Me Like You Mean It
David Tristram
​
Chris Chibnall
Braydon Priest
​
Garry Thomas

2011
January

April

June

June





​October
The Truly Remarkable Puss in Boots

Sylvia’s Wedding

Agnes of God

Three Piece Sweet (One acts):
       Horst Buchholz and Other Stories
       Dead Man Talking
​
       Cupboard Love

​Middle Age Spread
Patricia Clapp

Jimmie Chinn

John Pielmeier
 

Matthew Wilkie
Deborah Makarios
​
Bev McConnell

​Roger Hall​
Rebecca Taylor and Garry Thomas
Brian Sullivan and Garry Thomas
Garry Thomas
 

​Maria-Jane Scannell
Colin McKinney and Aimee Borlase
Mark O'Connell
​
Brian Sullivan

2012
January


April

June

July




​October
The Emperor’s New Clothes

​
Katydid

Habeaus Corpus

Triple Treat (One Act Plays):
       The Imaginary Friend
       No Clues at Tudor Close
       A Galway Girl

Jeffrey Barnard is Unwell
Jeanine Dwinell Henry and Meg Bryant Davenport
Lucy O’Brien

Alan Bennett
 

Neil Troost
Tim Barcode
Geraldine Aron

​Keith Waterhouse
Rebecca Taylor and Garry Thomas

Garry Thomas

Brian Sullivan
 

Alexandra Le Cocq
Sam Fisher
Susan Cameron

​Heather Giles

2013
January


April

June

August




​October
The Near Sighted Knight and the Far Sighted Dragon

Cosi

Someone Who'll Watch Over Me

Shorts - Three One Act Plays:
       The New Quixote
       One Season's King
       Hark

Well Hung
Eleanor and Ray Harder


Louis Nowra

Frank McGuiness


Michael Frayn
George MacEwan Green
Gabe McDonnell

​Robert Lord
Susan Cameron and Garry Thomas

Garry Thomas

Marilyn Ollett
 

Sarah Coursey
Doug Clarke
Alexndra le Cocq

​Stephen Millar

2014
January

May

June

August



​

​October
Jack the Giant and the Jiggery Plot

Rabbit Hole

Thick as Thieves

Toru - 3 short NZ Plays:
       Child's Play
       Vertabim
​
       The 73rd Day

Gym and Tonic
Richard Blythe

David Lindsay-Abaire

Tim Hambleton
 

T J Ramsey
William Brandt and Miranda Harcourt
Brian Hannam

​John Godber
Carole and Phil Payton

Garry Thomas

Phil Dean
 

Sarah Coursey
Susan Cameron

​Tom Hart

Steve Millar

2015
January

April

June

August




October

October
The Owl and the Pussycat

The Hen Night Epiphany

Proof

Some Like it Short:
       Carol & Nev
       Instinct
       The Death of Katie Myers

Sex Cells

Pirates Pandemonium
Tim Bray

Jimmy Murphy

David Auburn


Phil Ormsby
April Phillips
David Mitchell

​Anna Longaretti
Anna Willows

Garry Thomas

Sam Primrose
 

Steve Millar
Fiona Bennetts
David Mitchell

Marilyn Ollett

Susan Cameron and Sarah Coursey

2016
April

June

August




​September
Jumpy

Bouncers

Winter Tales:
       The Dumb Waiter
       Cosmic Fruit Bowl
​
       A Night Out

Holes
April de Angelis

John Godber


Harold Pinter
Rosemary Frisino Toohey
Frank Vickery
​
Tom Basden
Garry Thomas

Susan Cameron


Sonya Cameron
Anna Willows

Shani Annand-Baron

​David Mitchell

2017
January

April

June

August





​October
Goldisnowerellahood

All This Intimacy

The Thrill of Love

Mix and Match (One Act Plays):
       Top This
​
       The Death of Ellen Moore
       The Real Problem

Heaven Help Us!
Bronwyn Elsmore

Rajiv Joseph

Amanda Whittington


Emilia Marriott
​
Jon Amesbury
Bruce Kane

​Tim Hambleton
Libby Wilson and Shanice Adair
Douglas Clarke

Garry Thomas


​Emilia Marriott and Sam Primrose
Jon Amesbury
Sonya Cameron

​Phil Dean

2018
January

April


June

August






​October
Rapunzel

Always a Bridesmaid

​
Leaves of Glass

Matariki (One Acts):
       The Wonderful Miss Ward
       Portraits
​
       The Fraud
       ​Deadly Closure

Breath of Spring
​Garry Thomas

​Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten
Philip Ridley


Andrea Quinlan
Stuart McKenzie and Miranda Harcourt
Neil Troost
Richard C Harris
​
Peter Coke
Steve Millar

Sonya Cameron


Garry Thomas


Andrea Quinlan
Susan Cameron

Libby Wilson
Genna Kate Ryan and Garry Thomas
Steve Millar

2019
April

June






August

​October
Calendar Girls

Array ’19:
       Abandon Hope
       Hardstuff
       Kevin - The Other Reindeer
​
       You

Is the Real You Really You?

Be My Baby
Tim Firth


Bronwyn Elsmore
Jules Tasca
Garry Thomas
​
Mark Wilson

John Tobias

​Amanda Whittington
Susan Cameron


​Braydon Priest
Phil Dean
Braydon Priest and
Garry Thomas
Garry Thomas

Libby Wilson

​Garry Thomas

2020
January
​
September
Johnny Appleseed
​
Waiting for God
Garry Thomas and Steve Millar
Michael Aitkens
Garry Thomas and Steve Millar
Barry Grant

2021
January

​
April

July
The New Adventures of Snow White and Rose Red

Daughters of Heaven

​Hudson and Halls Live
Garry Thomas and Steve Millar

Michelanne Forster
​
Kip Chapman, with Todd Emmerson and Sophie Roberts
Garry Thomas and Steve Millar

Gretchen Nijsse

​Tom Vavasour

2022
January

April

July

August




​October
Bugsy Malone

Silly Cow

God of Carnage

Array ’22:
One Good Beating
What's for Pudding
Sequence of Events

​Ladies’ Day
Paul Williams and Alan Parker
Ben Elton

Yasmina Reza


Linda McLean
David Tristram
George MacEwan Green

​Amanda Whittington
Franc Bol

Jon Amesbury

Garry Thomas


Garry Thomas
Matt Holland
Sylvia Barnes

​Marilyn Ollett

2023
January

April

July

August



​
​September
The Princess and the Pirate King

Keeping Up Appearances

Big Big Sky

Array '23:
Reduced for Quick Sale
Is This Seat Taken?
A Cut in the Rates

​12 Angry Jurors
​Steve Millar and Garry Thomas
Roy Clarke

Tom Wells


Kent R Brown
Sean Baker
Alan Ayckbourn

​Reginald Rose
​Steve Millar and Garry Thomas
Matt Holland

Garry Thomas


Pat Hannah
Sylvia Barnes
Sonya Cameron

Dimitri Gibara

2024
January

April

July

August
​
​September
Daisy and the Dragon

Dateline

The Pink Hammer

My Brilliant Divorce

​The Sweet Delilah Swim Club
​Steve Millar and Garry Thomas
Barry Grant

Michele Amas

Geraldine Aron

​Jones, Hope, Wooten
​Steve Millar and Garry Thomas
Barry Grant

Garry Thomas and Steve Millar
Susan Cameron

Sonya Cameron

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