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The First 50 Years - 1948 to 1999

Our list of past productions is finally making it online!  As you'll see, we have some gaps, where the information for our early years is not yet available from our scrapbooks or archives.  If you can help fill some gaps, please email us at hello@elmwoodplayers.org.nz.
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     Year           Month                   Play                                                                       Author                             Director

1949​
July
 The Turning Point (a sketch)
Alex Henderson


Reg Harris






1950​
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1951​
July




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August


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September

​September
Plays and Sketches:
       The Harem
       The Late Lamented
       Reuben Proposes (sketch)
       ​No 13 (sketch)

One Act Plays: (to be confirmed)
       Fumed Oak
​       Snake on Sunday

Plays, sketches and items

​Two one-act plays and a sketch - Canterbury Women's Club










1952​
tba














1953​
tba














1954​
tba




One Act Plays:
       Desert Island Blues
       Fail Not Our Feast
       Parlour Game










1955​
March




One Act Plays:
       Can the Leopard Change His Spots
       Star Dust
       Miss Marlowe at Play

​Reg Harris



Andy Anderson
Gladys Crozier
Alison Alston

1956​
April




May​

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July



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August

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September



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November
One Act Plays:
       Burnt Pig
       Members of the Jury
       The Harem
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Joint one-act play evening with Rangiora Dramatic Society
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One Act Plays:
       Second Wedding
       It's Autumn Now
       The Calf Before the Hearse

​​​Joint one-act play evening with Christchurch Religious Drama Society

​One Act Plays:
       Companion to a Lady
       Eldorado
       Two Aunts and a Grandmother

​Waters of the Moon










Philip Johnson
Yves Cabrol






Bernard Gilbert
T B Morris

​N C Hunter









​Alison Alston
Taura Henderson
Alex Henderson





​Alex Henderson
George McLeary
Gladys Crozier

1957​
April



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June



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August
 One Act Plays:
       Colour Bar
       The Tawa Tree
       Rock Bottom
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One Act Plays:
       Strange Refuge
       Rugby Cycles
       The Valiant

​​​One Act Plays:
       Her Affairs in Order
       Moon on the Hill
       And Then There Were None

Joe Corrie

Nina Walker Hooke







​Mada Gage Bolton
Glyn Griffiths
R F Delderfield

Pat Benson
Alex Henderson
Taura Henderson







​Gladys Crozier
Taura Henderson
Alex Henderson

1958​
July



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October
​
November
 One Act Plays:
       The Gentle Rain
       Black Night
       The Affairs of Madame Parpot
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Morning Sacrifice​

​​​Just for Fun (a revue)

Anthony Booth
John Bourne
Yves Cabrol

Dymphna Cusack

​​Kenneth Horne

Norma Muschamp
George Benson
Alex Henderson

Alex Henderson

Alex Henderson​

1959​
April




July



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November
 One Act Plays:
       The New Day
       Thicker Than Water
       The Fish
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One Act Plays:
       
Confession by Proxy
       A Family Comedy 1840
       Among those Present

​​The Devil was Sick

Dorothy S Cooper
Wilson Barres
Yves Cabrol


​Nora Ratcliff
Majorie Bowen
Aubrey Feist

​​Kenneth Horne

​Alison Alston
Gladys Crozier
Alex Henderson

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​Gladys Crozier
Alex Henderson
Hunter Bell



1960​
April




​May

July



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September

November
 One Act Plays:
       The Guilty Generation
       Possession     
       Come Home My Children
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​Small Hotel

​One Act Plays:
       Harlequinade
       The Truth About the Truth 
       The Parpot Assassination

Dear Charles

The Sleeping Cutie​

Margaret Wood
Laurence Houseman
​Margaret Turner

Rex Frost

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Terence Rattigan
Ben Levy
​Yves Cabrol

Alan Melville

​C R Cook

​



​Alex Henderson

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​Hunter Bell



​Hunter Bell

Alex Henderson

1961​
April




​June

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July



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November
 One Act Plays:
       The Happy Journey
       Back to Zero
       Tony
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​Ladies in Retirement

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​One Act Plays:
       Madame de
       The Birds Sang On 
       Fumed Oak

The Barber of Bagdad

​Thornton Wilder
Arthur Bax
​

Edward Percy and Reginald Denham


​Jean Anounilh
Max Raynor
​Noel Coward

C R Cook and Taura Henderson

​Hunter Bell
​
Alison Alston

​Guy Hammond


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​Hunter Bell
Alison Alston
Alex Henderson

​Taura Henderson

1962
March




​May

​July




October




​October
One Act Plays: 
       Londonderry Air
       Symphony in Illusion
       The Ass and the Philosophers
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​Breath of Spring

​​One Act Plays:
       This Boy Connor
       Myself When Young
       I Spy

One Act Plays:
       Moonshine
       Catherine Parr or Alexander's House
       Suppressed Desires

​The Admirable Crichton

Rachel Fields
James Wallace Bell
Gwenyth Jones
​​
Peter Coke


Anthony Booth
Patricia Cox
John Mortimer


Arthur Hopkins
Maurice Baring
Susan Glaspell

​J M Barrie


​
Alex Henderson

Alex Henderson

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Alex Henderson
Alex Henderson
Alison Alston


Lillian Charlton
Ella Young
Mai Willers

​Hunter Bell

1963
March




​May

​July




November
One Act Plays: 
       Dark Brown
       Drums of Deliverance
       The Scarecrow
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​Count Your Blessings

​​One Act Plays:
       Hanjo
       Candy Pink
       Collect Your Hand Baggage

​The Glazed Look

Philip Johnson
Aubrey Feist
J A Ferguson
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Ronald Jeans


Yokio Mishima
J A S Coppard
John Mortimer

Terence Journet

Jack Rodwell
Hunter Bell
J A Ferguson

Alex Henderson

​
Alex Henderson
Margaret Furby
Hunter Bell

​Hunter Bell

1964
March




​May

​July




September

​November
One Act Plays: 
       The Godsend
       The Black Bag
       The Faithful Widow of Ephesus
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​Death of a Salesman

​​One Act Plays:
       Conversation with a Gollywog
       Lunch hour
       The Tricolour Suite

JB

​Sinbad the Sailor




​​
Arthur Miller


Alexander Guyan
John Mortimer
Peter Preston

Archibald MacLeish

​





Hunter Bell

​
Alex Henderson
Rosamund Heinz
Hunter Bell

​Alex Henderson

​Dir: Hunter Bell
MD: Andrea Beddie

1965
March




​June

​
​July




​November
One Act Plays: 
       The Price of Perfection
       The American Dream
       Private Rooms
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​Inherit the Wind

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​​One Act Plays:
       The Wedding
       A Night Out
       Rhyme and Treason

Peter Pan

Shelia Buckley
Edward Albee
J B Priestly

Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee

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Anton Chekov
Harold Pinter
Terence Journet

​

Alison Alston
Robert Higson
Robert Russell

Alex Henderson



Alex Henderson
Hunter Bell
Brian Cooper

Hunter Bell

1966
February

May
​
​July




October

December
Gigi
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Trelawny of the Wells

​​​One Act Plays:
       Salome
       Elektra
       The Dark Lady

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

​Dinner with the Family
Collette

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero


Oscar Wilde
Brian Gallas
George Bernard Shaw
​​
Raw Lawler

Jean Anounilh​
Hunter Bell

Alex Henderson


Alex Henderson
Brain Gallas
Helen Browning

Hunter Bell

​Hunter Bell

1967
March



​
May
​
​July




September

November
​​​One Act Plays:
       
The Request
       The Women of Troy
       Still Grows the Tawny Weed
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The Pohutakawa Tree

​​​One Act Plays:
       Song of Louise in the Morning
       A Resounding Tinkle
       Grave Expectations

Time to Kill

Billy Liar

Ernest Adams
Brian Gallas
Joan Drury Calder

Bruce Mason


Patricia Joudrey
N F Simpson
Ernest Adams
​​
Diana Morgan

Willis Hall

Ernest Adams
Hunter Bell
Keith Cooke

Brian Deavoll and
​Ron Hawkins

Ivan Finlayson
Ron Hawkins
Alex Henderson

Taura Henderson

​AlexHenderson

1968
March



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May
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​July




November
​​​One Act Plays:
       
Shade for Ginger
       The Dreamland Tree
       The Paradoxical Quest
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The Ballad of the Sad Café

​​​One Act Plays:
       The Death of Bessie Smith
       Next Door
       The Brain Factory

Major Barbara

Gary Lynch
Mollie Elder
Wayne Tourell

Edward Albee


Edward Albee
J P McKinney
Brian Cooper
​​
George Bernard Shaw

Ivan Finlayson
John Milligan
Hunter Bell

Hunter Bell


Brian Deavoll
Sue Ryan
Alex Henderson

Hunter Bell

1969
February

March



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May
​
​July



​
October

November
The Glass Menagerie

​​​One Act Plays:
       
Pidgeon Park on a Tuesday Night
       The Spoof
       The Prospect
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And the Big Men Fly

​​​One Act Plays:
       Sotoba Komachi
       Picnic on the Battlefield
       The Lady Aoi

Winter Journey

The Madwoman of Chaillot
Tennessee Williams


Brian Cooper
Wendy De La Bere
N A Griffiths

Alan Hopgood


Yukio Mishama
Fernando Arrabal
Yukio Mishama
​​
Clifford Odet

​Jean Giraudoux
Alex Henderson


Taura Henderson
Ivan Finlayson
Hunter Bell

Hunter Bell


Sue Ryan
Brian Deazoll
Alex Henderson

Brian Deavoll

​Alex Henderson

1970
March



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May
​
​July


​
October


​​​One Act Plays:
       
Getting and Spending
       One Potato, Two Potatoes
       The Crate
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Zero Inn

​​​One Act Plays:
       Night School
       The Coffee Lace

Alfie

David Campton
Gerald Lynch
Brian Cooper

Bruce Mason


Harold Pinter
John Bowen
​​
Bill Naughton

Stewart Robertson
Alex Henderson
Ivan Finlayson

Alex Henderson


Hunter Bell
Alex Henderson

Hunter Bell

1971
April

May
​
​August


​
​
September

November


Jenusia
​
Tom Jones

​​​One Act Plays:
       Robbie
       Chamber Music
       Number Ten

Lovers - Winners/Losers

​The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Rene de Obaldia

Joan Macalpine


John Michell
Arthur Kopit
Iris Thomas

Brian Friel

​Paul Zindel
Alex Henderson

Hunter Bell


Stewart Robertson
Brian Deavoll
Hunter Bell

Alex Henderson

Brian Deavoll

1972
February

March




May
​
​August


​
​
November
The Promise
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​​​One Act Plays:
       The Old Tune
       A Matter of Sheep and Goats
       The Trials of Brother Jero

The Visit

​​​One Act Plays:
       The Transformed peasant
       It's Only a Game, Mr Simpson
       Lunchtime Concert

Ring Round the Moon
Aleksei Arbuzov


Robert Pinget
Richard Boraman
Wole Soyinka

Friedrich Durreamatt

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Ludvig Holbert
Richard Boraman
Olwen Wymarck

Jean Anouilh
Alex Henderson


Robin Queree
Stewart Robertson
Alison Alston

Hunter Bell


Alex Henderson
Stewart Robertson
Alison Alston

Hunter Bell

1973
March

April

May
​
​August


​

​October
​
November
The Changing Room
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​​​Under Milk Wood

Orpheus Descending

​​​One Act Plays:
       The Technicians
       Ritual for Dolls
       The Sterilisation of Joey-Boy

Slow Dance on the Killing Ground

​A Scent of Flowers
David Storey

Dylan Thomas

Tennessee Williams


Olwen Wymark
George MacEwen Green
Dorothy Rice

William Hanley

​James Saunders
Hunter Bell

John Milligan and
Leslie Collingwood
Alex Henderson


Alison Alston
Alex Henderson
Stewart Robertson

Brian Deavoll

​Stewart Robertson

1974
January

April



​
May
​
July


​
​

​October
​
November
Around the World in 80 Days
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​​​​​​One Act Plays:
       Gum & Goo
       The Typists
       Why Bournemouth

Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day

​​​One Act Plays:
       The Last Three Days
​       Frankie and Albert

​       The Love Course

The Dream House

Sweeney Todd the Barber
Eve Hughs


Howard Brenton
Murray Schiegal
John Antrobus

Craig Harrison


Beryl Dowson
​Elwil Hughes

​A R Gurney

Philip King and
​Falkland L Carey
Brian J Burton
Hunter Bell


Doug Clarke
Stewart Robertson
Alex Henderson

​Alex Henderson


​Alex Henderson
Stewart Robertson and Liz Robinson
Elizabeth Hawes

Stewart Robertson
​
Taura Henderson

1975
February

May
​



June



​July


​​

September
​
​
November
Eh!

One act plays:
       The Altruist in Spite of Himself
       All Hallows Eve
       Black Banner Day

One act plays:
       Used Car for Sale
       The First Date

One act plays:
       They Play That at Funerals Don't They?
       He Who Dances
       Treed

The Fantasticks

​
​Love Rides the Rails
Henry Living


Marie Bullock
Bill Black
K M Henderson


Lewis J Carlino
Sheila Stowe


Marjorie Brooke-White
Dorothy Rice
Craig Harrison

Tom Jones and
​Harvey L Schmidt
​
Morland Cary
Alex Henderson


Peter Hart
Helen White
Gladys Thin


Alex Henderson



Elizabeth Hawes
Stewart Robertson
Alex Henderson

Dir: Brian Deavoll
MD: Eric Cornwall
Ch: Berryl MacLeod
​Taura Henderson

1976
January

March

April




​July

​​August




September
​
​December
Temptation Sordid

Burning Bright

One act plays:
       Dundonalds Return
       Identakit
       Family Business

Knightsbridge

One act plays:
       One Season's King
       Suddenly Last Summer
       Adaption

Crime on Goat Island

​The House of Blue Leaves
Winifred Phelps

John Steinbeck


W N Black
Marjorie Brooke-White
W N Black

John Mortimer


George MacEwan Green
Tennessee Williams
Elaine May

Ngo Betti

​John Guare
Alex Henderson

Brian Davis


Gladys Thin
June McFarlane
Les Bush

Alex Henderson


Alex Henderson
Gladys Thin
Stewart Robertson

Taura Henderson

​Brian Deavoll

1977
February

March




April

May

​June

​​August




September

September​

November

​
​November
The House of Blue Leaves

One Act Plays:
       Sequence of Events
       Neither Here nor There
       The Fourth Chippendale

Albert *

There's a Girl in my Soup

The Collector *

One Act Plays:
       Black Comedy
       The Tiger
       Picnic on the Battlefield

Happy Birthday Wanda June

Next *

Lock up Your Daughters

​
The Bare Facts *
John Guare


George MacEwan Green
Oliver Wymark
K Ruddiman

Richard Harris

Terence Frisby

Naftali Yavin


Peter Schaffer
Murray Scisgal
Fernando Arrakal

Kurt Vonnegut

Terrence McNally

Bernard Miles

​
​Janet Monroe
Brian Deavoll


Alex Henderson
Stewart Robertson
Craig Dixon and Pat McLauchlan
Gladys Thin

Alex Henderson

Michael West


Gladys Thin
Alison Alston
Andrew J Davidge

Stewart Robertson

Alex Henderson

​Dir: Gladys Thin
MD: Ranald McDonald
Ch: Jean Jones
Alex Henderson
                   * Dinner theatre production presented at the Wine Cellar Restaurant 

1978
March

March


April

May

July




September

September​

November
The Happy Apple

Run to the Round House Nellie, He Can't Corner You There *

Something to Talk About *

Anagrams

One Act Plays:
       No Why
       When the Bough Breaks
       Life of Hercules - Page One

The Perils of Priscilla *

​The Sea

​Blue Beard
Jack Pulman

Schubert Fendrick


Eden Phillpotts

Barbara Hedley


John Whiting
Alistair Campbell
Thomas Cruden

Schubert Fendrick

Edward Bond

​Trudy West
Stewart Robertson

Gladys Thin


Alison Alston

Alex Henderson


Andrew Davidge
Alison Alston
Gladys Thin

Alex Henderson

David Eddy

​Taura Henderson
                   * Dinner theatre production presented at the Wine Cellar Restaurant 

1979
February

​May

July



August

November

​November
​Writer's Cramp

A Song at Twilight

One Act Plays:
       Ephemera Two Zero
       Lysistrata

Old King Cole

Sweet Bird of Youth

​Off the Rails
John Byrne

Noel Coward


Joe V Graber
Aristophanes, Trans-lated by Dudley Fitts
​Ken Campbell

Tennessee Williams

John Waterhouse
Alex Henderson

Alison Alston


Alex Henderson
Gladys Thin

David Eddy

Gladys Thin

​Alex Henderson

1980
March

June



​December
The Loves of Cass McGuire

One Act Plays:
       The Bald Prima Donna
       The Lesson

​The Royal Astrologers
Brian Friel


Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco

​Willis Hall
Alison Alston


Don McAra
David Bridges

​David Bridges

1981
March

May

September

​November
The Enquiry

Hayfever

Everything in the Garden

​Waltz of the Toreadors
​Charlotte Hastings

Noel Coward

Giles Cooper

​Jean Anouilh
Guus de Koster

Alison Alston

Mary de Koster

​Brian Brodie

1982
March

June

August




​September

​November
The One Day of the Year

Love on the Dole

One Act Plays:
       Next
       
​       The Boat

Bodies

​The Poet and the Women
​Alan Seymour

Walter Greenwood, adapted by Ronald Gow

Terrence McNally

​Jill Shearer

​James Saunders

​Aristophanes
Guus de Koster

David Bridges


​Michele Harrodon-Graham
Barry Southam

Barry Grant

​Juliet Robinson

1983
January

March

May

June

July





September

November

​December
A Talent to Amuse

Equus

Missionary Positions

Alphabetical Order

One Act Plays (in conjunction with Riccarton Players):
       Cocaloony Key (Elmwood)
       A Slight Accident (Elmwood)
       The American Dream (Riccarton)

Crown Matrimonial

Playboy of the Western World

​A Talent to Amuse (a repeat season)
John Jeffries

Peter Shaffer

Barry Southam

Michael Frayn



Tennessee Williams
James Saunders
Edward Albee

Royce Ryton

J M Synge

​John Jeffries
John Jeffries

Claire Marsh

Barry Southam

David Bridges



Elizabeth O'Connor
Barry Grant
Doug Clarke

Barry Grant

Dawn Somerville

​John Jeffries

1984
March

April

May



August

​October
Veronica's Room

The House of Bernada Alba

Cabaret

​
​
Abigail's Party

​The Constant Wife
Ira Levin

Fererico Garcia Lora

Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb

​
​Mike Leigh

​Somerset Maugham
Claire Marsh

David Bridges

Dir: Barry Grant
MD: Sue Eason & John Jeffries
Ch: Debbie Davids
Elizabeth Moody

June Harvest

1985
February

April

May

June

July




August

October

​November
Hitler Dances

Confusions

The Tale of the Red Dragon

Present Laughter

One Act Plays:
       California Greasepaint
       Escape
       Tennessee

Middle Age Spread

Your Bed or Mine?

​Clouds
Howard Brenton

Alan Ayckbourn

Alfred Bradley

Noel Coward


Barry Southam
Barry Southam
Romulus Linney

Roger Hall

Barry Southam

​Michale Frayn
Doug Clarke

Claire Marsh

June Harvest

John Jeffries


Doug Shields
Carolyn Davies
Barry Grant

Moreen Eason

Barry Southam

​Barry Grant

1986
March

April

May

June

July




September

​November
Butterflies are Free

Stage Struck

Old King Cole

Pass the Butler

One Act Plays:
       The Inhabitants
       Wild Card
       Ritual for Dolls

Like Father Like Daughter

​Pardon Me, Prime Minister
Leonard Gershe

Simon Gray



Eric Idle


Olwen Wymark
Barry Southam
George MacEwan Green

​Barry Southam

Edward Taylor and
John Graham
Andrew Davidge

Claire Marsh

Heather Giles

Doug Clarke


Alison Erikson
Barry Southam
Andrew Davidge

Barry Southam

​Thomas Brown

1987
​February

April

May

June

August

October

​December
Lucky for Some

Brimstone and Treacle

The Incredible Vanishing

That Scoundrel Scapin

Marmalade Aitkins in Space

Measure for Measure

​Fifty Fifty
John Dole

Dennis Potter

Denise Boffey

Moliere

Richard Davis

William Shakespeare

​Roger Hall
​Doug Clarke

Annabelle Corbett

Chris Stachurski

Paul Harrington

David Thomas

Doug Clarke

​Pat Harris

1988
February

April

May

October

​November​
Boeing, Boeing

Where Has Tommy Flowers Gone?

The Wizard of Oz, the Original Story

Female Transport

​The Good Doctor
Marc Canoletti

Terrance McNally

Doug Clarke

Steve Gooch

​Neil Simon
David Thomas

Pat Harris

Heather Giles

Doug Clarke

​Rozena Hallum and Lin Clark

1989
January

March

May

June

​July

​
November​
David Niven: His Life and Stories

Golden Moments - A Victorian Soiree

The Dancing Donkey

Abelard and Heloise

NZ Laughs - One Act Plays: *
       A Kind of Image (Elmwood)

​Hot Water
Barry Grant

Pat Harris

Eric Voss

Ronald Millar


Barry Grant

​Roger Hall
Barry Grant

Dir: Pat Harris
MD: Terry McGowan
Nicola Wellbourn

Lin Clark and
Rozena Hallum



​Ann Bartlett
                     * Joint with Peripatetic Players and St Christopher's Drama Group

1990
​May

July



August

October

November
Skungpoomery

One Act Plays:
       The Gin Game
       The Old Man and the Sea (a reading)

The White Liars

Shock Treatment

A Christmas Carol
Ken Campbell


D L Coburn
Ernest Hemmingway

Peter Shaffer

Richard O'Brien

​Mervyn Glue
Heather Giles


Hallum & Clark
Hallum & Clark

Ann Bartlett

Dir: Doug Clarke

​Brian Brodie

1991
​April

May

July



August

October

​December
Prisoners of Mother England

Gaslight

One Act Plays: *
       No Why
       A Kind of Missle

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Yerma

​Our Town
Roger Hall

Patrick Hamilton


John Whiting
Barry Grant

William Shakespeare

Federico Garcia Lorca

Thornton Wilder
Doug Clarke

Ann Bartlett


Richard Muller
Barry Grant

Lex Matheson

Gregory Smith

​Gregory Smale
                     * Joint production with Scarab Theatre, who performed Bars by Gillian Gould and Kate Hood, directed by Kate Hamilton

1992
March

April

May

July



September

​November
Habeas Corpus

Shakers

Cinderella

One Act Plays:
       Flying
       Deep End

The Winters Tale

​Christmas Crackers
Alan Bennett

Jon Godber and
Jane Thornton
Roger Hall


Barry Grant
Bruce Goodman

William Shakespeare

​Willis Hall
Barry Grant

Doug Clarke

Heather Giles


Barry Grant
Julie Armstrong

Lex Matheson

​Tom Vavasour

1993
​April

May

August




​December
Accidental Death of an Anarchist

School for Clowns

One Act Plays:
       Jigsaw
       Secundus
       One Warrior's War

Not Now, Darling
Dario Fo

F K Waechter


Bruce Goodman
Bruce Goodman
Barry Grant

​Ray Cooney and
​John Chapman
Tom Vavasour

Lex Matheson


Bruce Goodman
Lex Matheson
Barry Grant

Barry Grant

1994
​April

May

​November
On Golden Pond

The Adventures of Awful Knawful!

​Wind in the Branches of the Sassafras
Ernest Thompson

Peter Flannery and
​Mick Ford
Rene de Obaldia
Ann Bartlett

Barry Grant

​Barry Grant

1995
​March

May
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
​
Goldisnowerellahood
Dale Wasserman
​
Bronwyn Elsmore
Tom Vavasour
​
Heather McMenamin

1996
February

April

September

​November
Old King Cole

Rosancrantz and Guilderstern are Dead

Ten Times Table

​Outside Edge
Ken Campbell

Tom Stoppard

Alan Ayckbourn

​Richard Harris
​Ian Beswick

Tom Vavasour

Barry Grant

​Heather Giles

1997
March

May

July





October

​November
The Magic Hand

Noises Off

Winter Shorts - One Act Plays:
       The New Quixote
       Fault
       Open Home
       Chook Chook

Wyrd Sisters

​Abducting Diane
Phillip Mann

Michael Frayn


Michael Frayn
Tim Barcode
Marilyn Ollett
Fiona Farrell

Stephen Briggs

​Dario Fo
Adrienne Watson

Barry Grant


Marilyn Ollett
Sam Fisher
Marily Ollett
Barry Grant

Tom Vavasour

​Sam Fisher

1998
March

May

July




October

November
Death by Chocolate

The Cemetery Club

Winter Shorts:
       Uncle Jimmy
       No Clues at Tudor Close
       Oh, Kaikoura!

Amadeus

Two plays:
       Boris
       ​The Real Inspector Hound
Barry Grant

Ivan Menchell


James Stewart
Tim Barcode
Barry Grant

Peter Shaffer


​Barry Grant
Tom Stoppard
Barry Grant

Peter Meikle


James Stewart
Katherine Coleman
Barry Grant

Peter Meikle


Tamzin Darragh
Sam Fisher

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

There are some full length plays and seasons of one act plays from the early to mid 1950s for which we don't know the dates, or even the exact year.  Research is continuing, but if you can help, please email us at hello@elmwoodplayers.org.nz.
TBA
​1950s






















​1990s
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One Act Plays:
       The Illusionist
       Master Dudley
       The Ghost of Albert Edward

One Act Plays:
       Queen's Token
       The Vixen and the Grapes
       No Weeds for the Widow

One Act Plays:
       The Bishop's Candlesticks
       In a Glass Darkly
       The Spinsters of Lavender Lane

One Act (as part of other sketches & speeches):
       Red Sky at Night

One Act Plays:
       Roundabout
       The Foolishness of God
       The Telephone Never Rings

One Act Plays:
       Man Unknown
       Church Street
       Wedding Eve

The Sacred Flame
​
The Late Edwina Black

​One Act Plays:
       Sequence of Events
       The Thymes of Emma
       Albert























​
Victor Lucas
Lennox Robinson
Pearl Wren​

Somerset Maugham

​Somerset Maugham


George MacEwan Green
David Thomas
Richard Harris

























Hunter Bell
Pearl Wren​

George Benson

​Eric Bates


Doug Clarke
David Thomas
Andrew Davidge

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