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Note that more information about most of these items is available by clicking its title<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1988
Murder in the Cathedral <\/a><\/strong>: T.S. Eliot

1989
Habeus Corpus<\/strong> : Alan Bennett
Jacque<\/strong>s: Eug\u00e8ne Ionesco
The Sea<\/strong>: Edward Bond

1990
The Canterbury Tales<\/strong>: Geoffrey Chaucer
Plenty<\/a><\/strong>: David Hare

1991
Double or Quits <\/strong> Review - with Alton Operatic & Dramatic Society<\/em>
A Family Affair<\/strong>: Alexander Ostrovsky     

1992
Nicholas Nickleby<\/strong>: Charles Dickens
Blood Wedding<\/strong>: <\/a> Frederico Garcia Lorca

1993
The Women of Troy<\/strong>: Euripides (masked)
Steel Magnolias<\/strong>: Robert Harling

1994
Pack of Lies<\/strong>: Hugh Whitmore
The Lady\u2019s Not for Burning <\/strong>: Christopher. Fry

1995
Daily Lives<\/strong>   Programme of diary readings
The Birthday Party\/Party Time <\/strong>: Harold Pinter
The Taming of the Shrew<\/strong> : William Shakespeare

1996
Bloody Poetry <\/strong>: Howard Brenton
The Stalled Ox and other stories<\/strong> : Saki

1997
Becket <\/strong>: Jean Anouilh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1998
Mary Stuart<\/strong><\/a>: Friedrich Schiller
Our Country\u2019s Good<\/a><\/strong> : Timberlake Wertenbaker

1999
The Food of Love <\/strong>- programme of Shakespeare songs
Seven Ages of Man<\/strong> - Programme of readings based on the stages of life.
Out of the Darkness<\/strong>  - Millennium production including two mediaeval plays - Abraham<\/em> and Lancelot of Denmark<\/em>, music by Hildegarde of Bingen and mediaeval plainsong.

2001
Don Carlos<\/strong><\/a>: Friedrich Schiller
Mixed Doubles<\/strong> - Entertainment on the theme of Marriage

2003
Pygmalion<\/a><\/strong>: George Bernard Shaw
Home<\/strong> : David Storey

2004
Passages from India<\/strong>: A programme of readings about India compiled by Maurice Hopkins      
The Fire Raisers<\/strong>: Max Frisch        

2005
The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/strong><\/a>: William Shakespeare
Sea Voices<\/strong>: A musical anthology of the theme of the Sea

2006
Under Milk Wood<\/strong>: Dylan Thomas
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2007
A Man for All Seasons<\/a><\/strong>: Robert Bolt

2008
Kindertransport<\/a><\/strong> : Diane Samuels
Born to be an Heroine?<\/strong> : Programme of extracts and music inspired by Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey<\/em>
Salome<\/strong><\/a>: Oscar Wilde - preformed in Alton and then at the Edinburgh Fringe<\/em>

2009
Wonderful Life<\/strong> An illustrated celebration of the anniversary of Charles Darwin devised and written by James & Lesley Willis
Moll Flanders - The Musical<\/a><\/strong>: Luckham & Lowe (after Daniel Defoe)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010
Great Expectations<\/a><\/strong> : Neil Bartlett, after Charles Dickens
Medea<\/a><\/strong> : Euripides (masked)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011
Blue Remembered Hills<\/a><\/strong>: Dennis Potter (All female cast, playing children)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012
The Brilliance in the Room<\/a> <\/strong>Programme of readings from Dickens devised by Maurice Hopkins
The 39 Steps<\/a><\/strong>: Patrick Barlow, after Simon Corble & Nobby Dimon, after John Buchan<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013
The Tempest<\/strong><\/a>: William Shakespeare
Talking Heads<\/strong> Six Alan Bennet monologues<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014
1914 - From Illusion to Confusion <\/strong>Music and readings on 1914 - The Year of Sarajevo<\/em> devised by Michael Biddiss
An Enemy of the People<\/strong><\/a>: Henrik Ibsen, translated by Michael Biddiss<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015
The Wind in the Willows<\/a><\/strong>: by our own Simon Applegarth after Kenneth Grahame
King Lear<\/strong><\/a> : William Shakespeare<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016
The Waste Land<\/strong> : T.S.Eliot<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017
An Excursion to Sanditon<\/strong>- extracts from the unfinished Jane Austen<\/em> devised by Michael Biddiss
Sweet Fanny Adams<\/strong> -play for voices <\/em>: Tim Guilding<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018
The Way of the World<\/a><\/strong> : William Congreve<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019
Luther<\/a><\/strong>: John Osborne
Macbeth<\/a><\/strong>: William Shakespeare<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022
ZigZag - Gilbert White and the Natural History of Selborne<\/a><\/strong> Play for voices: Simon Applegarth
Top Girls<\/a><\/strong>: Caryl Churchill<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023
The Plagu<\/a>e -<\/strong> Neil Bartlett (after La Peste <\/em>by Albert Camus)
The Cherry Orchard<\/a><\/strong>: Anton Chekhov<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024
Alton Arts Festival<\/a> <\/strong>- Passages from plays we have performed over our 35 years
Breaking the Code<\/strong> - the story of Alan Turing<\/a>: Hugh Whitmore<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025
Railway Readings<\/strong>: a programme of readings to mark the 200th anniversary of the first railway, devised by Lesley Willis
Things I know to be True<\/a><\/strong>: Andrew Bovell<\/p>\n\n\n\n



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