Productions at Radley

Date Production Performed by
1880 Terence: Andria. Act 5 recitation
1881 Terence: Phormio
1882 Terence: Adelphi
1883 Terence: Andria
1884 Plautus: Trinummus
1885 unknown (prob. Phormio)
1886 Terence: Adelphi
1887 Terence: Andria
1888 Plautus: Trinummus
1889 Terence: Phormio
1889 The critic by Sheridan school
1890 Terence: Adelphi
1891 Terence: Andria
1892 Plautus: Trinummus
1892 The school for scandal school
1893 Terence: Phormio
1894 Terence: Adelphi
1895 Terence: Andria
1896 Plautus: Trinummus
1897 Plautus: Aulularia
1898 Plautus: Captivi
1899 Terence: Andria
1900 Aristophanes: Frogs school
1901 Plautus: Aulularia
1902 Plautus: Captivi
1902 Heir at law by Colman school
1903 Terence: Andria
1904 Plautus: Rudens
1905 Aristophanes: Wasps
1906 Aristophanes: Frogs
1907 Plautus: Rudens
1908 Euripides: Cyclops
1909 Plautus: Aulularia
1910 no play
1911 Aristophanes: Wasps
1916 RCLS read Euripides: Bacchae in trans.
1917 Declamations Aristophanes: Peace – scenes read
1918 RCLS read Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus in trans
1919 RCLS read Euripides: Trojan Women in trans.
1919 RCLS read Euripides: Iphigeneia in Tauris in trans
1920 no play
1921 RCLS read Aeschylus: Agamemnon in trans
1921 RCLS read Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus in trans
1923 Man in a bowler hat Dons’ Play
1924 Lost silk hat with St Patrick’s Day by Sheridan Dons’ Play
1924 The critic by Sheridan RCADS
1925 Buried cable with Ghost of Jerry B. Dons’ Play
1925 RCADS founded
1926 Pick of Oakham Dons’ Play
1926 The gods of the mountains by Lord Dunsany & A collection will be made by Arthur Eckersley RCADS
1926 Macbeth by Shakespeare RCADS
1926 RCADS read Journey’s end by RC Sherriff RCADS
1927 Waiting & The cure (Dons’ sketches with plays by boys) Dons’ Play
1927 Short plays RCADS
1927 A night at an inn by Lord Dunsany & The mock doctor by Henry Fielding (with sketches by Dons) RCADS
1928 Dons plays – with Dancing melodrama Dons’ Play
1928 Arms and the man by G Bernard Shaw RCADS
1928 R.U.R. by Karel Capek RCADS
1929 Sketches with Two gentlemen of Soho Dons’ Play
1929 The devil’s disciple by G Bernard Shaw RCADS
1929 RCADS acting competition RCADS
1930 Ici on parle francais, with Crimson coconut Dons’ Play
1930 RCADS acting competition RCADS
1931 Thread of scarlet, with A collection will be made Dons’ Play
1931 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper RCADS
1932 Dons plays – with Dancing melodrama 2 Dons’ Play
1932 She stoops to conquer by Oliver Goldsmith RCADS
1933 RCLS read Euripides: Medea in trans
1933 Dons’ plays with Browne with an E Dons’ Play
1933 Hamlet by Shakespeare RCADS
1933 RCADS acting competition RCADS
1934 The white chateau by Reginald Berkeley RCADS
1934 Various sketches Dons’ Play
1935 Les dons s’amusent, with On Dartmoor Dons’ Play
1935 Captain Brassbound’s conversion RCADS
1936 Folies des dons with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Dons’ Play
1936 The lady with the lamp by Reginald Berkeley RCADS
1936 RCADS & RCLS read King Lear RCADS
1936 RCADS acting competition RCADS
1937 King Lear by Shakespeare RCADS
1937 First Drama Festival Socials
1937 Ca c’est Radley with Russian salad Dons’ Play
1937 RCADS & RCLS read A midsummer night’s dream RCADS
1938 Delices des dons Dons’ Play
1938 Second Drama Festival Socials
1938 School for scandal by Sheridan RCADS
1938 Comus by John Milton RCADS
1939 First Junior Drama Festival Socials
1939 Not cricket Dons’ Play
1939 Clive of India by WP Lipscombe & RK Minney RCADS
1939 Third Drama Festival Socials
1940 Second Jumior Drama Festival Socials
1940 Julius Caesar by Shakespeare RCADS
1940 Various sketches Dons’ Play
1940 Fourth Drama Festival Socials
1940 Eastbourne College Marionette Society founded & continued after evacuation to RC
1941 Fifth Drama Festival Socials
1941 A man’s house by John Drinkwater RCADS
1941 Various sketches Dons’ Play
1941 Pride and prejudice by Helen Jerome RCADS
1941 Third Junior Drama Festival Socials
1941 RC Marionette Society founded
1941 The sword in the stone – rehearsed not performed RC Marionette Society
1942 Sixth Drama Festival Socials
1942 Abraham Lincoln by John Drinkwater & The happy journey by Thornton Wilder RCADS
1942 Various sketches Dons’ Play
1942 The tempest by Shakespeare (informal, outside photos misidentified as ‘As you like it’?) RCADS
1942 The sword in the stone by TH White (adapted) RC Marionette Society
1943 Aladdin by AC Rawlinson Dons’ Play
1943 The rivals by Sheridan RCADS
1943 Seventh Drama Festival Socials
1943 The rose and the ring by WM Thackeray (adapted) RC Marionette Society
1943 performance by Waldo/Lanchester Marionettes Mr Lanchester
1944 Dons’ plays (includes Dick Whittington at Radley) Dons’ Play
1944 Strife by John Galsworthy RCADS
1944 Eighth Drama Festival Socials
1944 The storie of St George by NS Despicht Eastbourne C Marionette Soc
1944 performance by Waldo/Lanchester Marionettes Mr Lanchester
1945 Henry IV pt. 1 by Shakespeare RCADS
1945 Folies de la Victoire (Includes Dick Whittington at Radley and The bacchanals) Dons’ Play
1945 Ninth Drama Festival Socials
1945 appreciation of R Haddon, Secretary of RCADS & SP RCADS
1945 The Bacchae by Euripides unknown
1945 Ambrose Applejohn’s adventure RCJDS
1946 On Radley on! (Includes Early adventures of Dick Whittington by AC Rawlinson & DHCD Borgnis) Dons’ Play
1946 Hamlet Bradfield College
1946 Electra by Sophocles the school
1946 Macbeth by Shakespeare RCJADS
1946 Le malade imaginaire by Moliere Modern Sixth A
1946 The will by JM Barrie & She stoops to conquer by William Goldsmith RCADS
1946 Variety show RC Marionette Society
1947 Centenary moonshine (includes Coal) Dons’ Play
1947 Richard of Bordeaux by Gordon Daviot RCJADS
1947 Radly retrospect RCADS
1947 Twelfth Drama Festival Socials
1947 Bastien and Bastienne by Mozart RC Marionette Society
1948 Philoctetes by Sophocles Classical side
1948 ITDA (includes The admirable Philly) Dons’ Play
1948 An enemy of the people by Henrik Ibsen RCADS
1948 The beggar’s opera by John Gay RC Marionette Soc
1948 performance by Waldo/Lanchester Marionettes Mr Lanchester
1949 Radley oddities (includes Boink by TEE Cocks) Dons’ Play
1949 Le medecin malgre lui by Moliere unknown
1949 Twelfth night by Shakespeare RCADS
1949 Thirteenth Drama Festival Socials
1949 Hansel and Gretel by Humperdinck RC Marionette Society
1949 The devil’s disciple by G Bernard Shaw RCJDS
1950 Lady Precious Stream by SI Hsiung RCJADS
1950 Euripides: Alcestis
1950 King Lear by Shakespeare RCADS
1950 Plunder by Ben Travers Dons’ Play
1950 Fourteenth Drama Festival Socials
1950 The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan RC Marionette Soc
1951 Trachiotomy or Kiss me Hercie RC Marionette Soc
1951 Trachiniae by Sophocles the school
1951 Everyman & The critic by Sheridan RCADS
1951 The dons oblige (includes Operation Henley by AKB & Dead Cert by TEEC) Dons’ Play
1951 Fifteenth Drama Festival Socials
1951 Badger’s Green RCJDS
1952 Dons will be dons (includes What a racket by TEEC Dons’ Play
1952 Spithead story by AK Boyd RCADS
1952 Oedipus by RN Cottrell, Medrington Trophy Winner
1952 formalisation of drama at Radley
1952 RCADS read Venus observed by Christopher Fry RCADS
1953 Dons dare (includes Fool moon by TEE Cocks Dons’ Play
1953 Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare RCJADS
1953 The firstborn by Christopher Fry RCADS
1953 Haddon Cup first awarded to King’s Social ‘for services to drama’
1953 The magic flute by Mozart RC Marionette Society
1954 The beggar’s opera, John Gay RC Marionette Soc
1954 Clouds by Aristophanes the school
1954 Too many cuckoos (includes Who killed cock robin? by TEE Cocks) Dons’ Play
1954 The alchemist by Ben Jonson RCADS
1955 Wet rot (includes Atoll story by TEE Cocks) Dons’ Play
1955 A sleep of prisoners by Christopher Fry RCADS
1955 Eighteenth Drama Festival Socials
1956 Black and white blues by Peter Cook RC Marionette Soc
1956 Definitely don-u (Includes Fun and games) Dons’ Play
1956 Love’s labour’s lost by Shakespeare RCADS
1956 [Nineteenth] Drama Festival Socials
1957 Medea by Euripides Classical side
1957 Dons’ plays (includes Great Western by PDL Way) Dons’ Play
1957 Pygmalion by G Bernard Shaw RCJADS
1957 St. Patrick’s Day by Sheridan RCJDS
1957 [Twentieth] Drama Festival Socials
1957 Hassan RC Marionette Society
1958 Dons choice (includes The merchant of Greenwich by TEE Cocks) Dons’ Play
1958 Samson Agonistes by John Milton RCADS
1958 Edward the Second by Christopher Marlowe RCADS
1958 [Twenty first] Drama Festival Socials
1958 The yeomen of the guard by Gilbert & Sullivan RC Marionette Society
1959 Caesar and Cleopatra by G Bernard Shaw RCJADS
1959 Dons choice (includes The merchant of Greenwich by TEE Cocks) Dons’ Play
1959 [Twenty second] Drama Festival Socials
1959 The frogs by Aristophanes Classical Side
1960 RC Drama Festival Socials
1960 Dig dem dons Dons’ Play
1960 Revudesdons Dons’ Play
1960 Our town by Thornton Wilder RCADS
1960 [Twenty third] Drama Festival Socials
1960 For better, for worse RC Marionette Society
1960 unnamed Greek play
1961 RC Drama Festival Socials
1961 Hamlet by Shakespeare RCJADS
1961 Euripides: Phoenissae
1961 It’s that moon again by TEE Cocks Dons’ Play
1961 [Twenty fourth] Drama Festival Socials
1962 A man born to be king by Dorothy L Sayers (extracts) performed in Radley Church RCADS
1962 King Lear by Shakespeare RCADS
1962 Not cricket & Two under the eight Dons’ Play
1962 [Twenty fifth] Drama Festival Socials
1963 Aristophanes: Birds
1963 Babes in the woods Dons’ Play
1963 Beaknicks in England present … unknown
1963 Social plays Socials
1964 Julius Caesar by Shakespeare RCADS
1964 Arms and the man by G Bernard Shaw RCADS
1964 Shakespeare Quatercentenary recital Donald Wolfit & Rosalind Iden
1964 Social plays Socials
1965 Euripides: Bacchae
1965 Ross by Terence Rattigan RCADS
1965 Social plays Socials
1965 unnamed RC Marionette Society
1966 Terence: Phormio in trans. Performed by a boarding house
1966 The beggar’s opera by John Gay RCADS with RCMS & St Helen’s
1966 RCADS Drama Festival Socials
1966 Le malade imaginaire by Moliere Shells
1966 The MIkado by Gilbert & Sullivan RC Marionette Soc
1967 A man for all seasons by Robert Bolt RCADS
1967 Two medieval farces Removes
1967 reading of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas unknown
1967 RCADS Drama Festival Socials
1967 Lady Audeley’s secret RC Marionette Soc
1968 Aristophanes: Frogs
1968 Othello by Shakespeare RCADS
1968 RCADS Drama Festival Socials
1968 Faustus fantasy RC Marionette Soc
1969 Peter Panto by PDL Way Dons’ Play
1969 Euripides: Cyclops & Sophocles: Ichneutae both in trans
1969 The importance of being earnest by Oscar Wilde RCADS
1969 reading of Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas unknown
1969 RCADS Drama Festival Socials
1969 Maria Marten RC Marionette Soc
1969 Breath by Samuel Becket unknown
1970 Hamlet by Shakespeare RCADS
1970 RCADS Drama Festival Socials
1970 Haddon Cup Juniors/Socials
1970 Toad RC Marionette Soc
1971 Death of a salesman by Arthur Miller RCADS with St Helen’s
1971 RCADS Drama Festival Socials
1971 Haddon Cup Juniors/Socials
1971 Potted lobster RC Marionette Soc
1972 Seneca: Oedipus in trans school with St Helen’s
1972 Horse play Dons’ Play
1972 The royal hunt of the sun by Peter Shaeffer RCADS
1972 RCADS Drama Festival Socials
1972 Haddon Cup Juniors/Socials
1972 Jonah RC Marionette Soc
1973 Inherit the wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee RCADS
1973 Drama Festival Socials
1973 The ghosts of Berkeley Square RC Marionette Soc
1974 Conduct unbecoming by Barry England RCADS
1974 RCADS Drama Festival Socials
1974 Haddon Cup Juniors/Socials
1974 Potted lobster RC Marionette Soc
1975 The comedy of errors by Shakespeare RCADS
1975 The real inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard ‘boy-initiated’
1975 Landscape by Harold Pinter boy-initiated’
1975 Haddon Cup Juniors/Socials
1975 RCADS Drama Festival Socials
1975 Maria Marten RC Marionette Soc
1975 Birds by Aristophanes Classical Remove
1976 Oh, what a lovely war RCADS
1976 Haddon Cup Juniors/Socials
1976 RCADS Drama Festival Socials
1977 Case of the compromised question papers by PDL Way Dons’ Play
1977 A midsummer night’s dream by Shakespeare RCADS
1977 Toad RC Marionette Soc
1977 Dreams unknown
1978 Billy Budd by Louis O Coxe & Robert Chapman RCADS
1979 Lusimasque by PDL Way unknown
1981 Wrang Gailes way RC Marionette Soc
1981 Journey’s end by RC Sherriff Additional Subject Drama Group
1981 Dogg’s Hamlet by Tom Stoppard Additional Subject Drama Group
1982 The case of the seven-per-cent solution Dons’ Play
1982 Royal hunt of the sun by Peter Shaffer school
1982 Killed Additional Subject Drama Group
1983 The insect play by the Brothers Kapek school
1983 Kes by Barry Hines school
1983 Equus by Peter Shaffer school
1983 The dumb waiter by Harold Pinter Additional Subject Drama Group
1984 Macbeth by Shakespeare school
1984 The peace egg Additional Subject Drama Group
1984 The birthday party by Harold Pinter Additional Subject Drama Group
1984 Every good boy deserves favour Additional Subject Drama Group
1984 Good morning and welcome to the last day of the final test at the Berlin Oval Additional Subject Drama Group
1985 Maybe tomorrow by Jim Hare from Piers Paul Read’s ‘Alive’ school
1985 Not just for children Additional Subject Drama Group
1985 When the wind blows 2 6.2 boys
1985 The caretaker by Harold Pinter Additional Subject Drama Group
1986 Oh! what a lovely war school
1986 3 plays for coarse actors by Michael Green C Social
1986 Top table 6th Dramatists
1987 Amadeus by Peter Schaffer school
1987 The comedy of errors by Shakespeare school
1988 Cabaret school
1988 A sabbatical by Jim Hare E Social
1988 Haddon Cup Juniors/Social
1989 Waiting for Godot school
1989 The long and the short and the tall school
1989 The Browning version by Terence Rattigan F Social
1989 Journey’s end by RC Sherriff Additional Subject Drama Group
1989 The long, and the short and the tall by Willis Hall Additional Subject Drama Group
1989 The pirates of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan RC G&S Soc
1989 The pirates of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan RC G&S Soc
1989 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard school
1990 Caucasian chalk circle school
1990 One for the road by Harold Pinter Additional Subject Drama Group
1990 Forty years on by Alan Bennett Dons’ Play
1990 The Mikado by Gilbert & Sullivan RC G&S Soc
1991 Dead poets society school
1991 Jesus Christ Superstar by Rice & Webber school
1991 A stop in the desert Teatr Grupa Chwilowa
1991 Zoo story by Edward Albee Additional Subject Drama Group
1992 One flew over the cuckoo’s nest school
1992 HMS Pinafore by Gilbert & Sullivan RC G&S Soc
1992 One flew over the cuckoo’s nest – Edinburgh Fringe Performance school
1992 The miser by Moliere school
1992 HMS Pinafore RC G&S
1993 Conduct unbecoming by Barry England school
1993 The Blues brothers by Malcom Gunningham school
1993 The tale of mai by Harry Wallop – a play for Jim Hare Legacy Theatre’ (Addditional Subject Drama Group)
1993 Circus by Will Mufti Additional Subject Drama Group
1993 A midsummer night’s dream school
1994 Genesis by Jamie Campbell, Tom Crowther.   Film Four Non Dons (boys production)
1994 The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer (dir by G Catherwood) school
1995 Peter Pan by JM Barrie Dons’ Play
1995 Guys and dolls school
1995 Someone who’ll watch over me by Frank McGuinness. Film Quadrant (Boys production
1996 Macbeth by Shakespeare (dir by Moore & Reekes) school
1996 Donkey’s years
1996 Royal hunt of the sun by Peter Shaffer Juniors
1997 Taboo – starring Desmond Llewellyn.   Film Quadrant (Boys production
1997 The madness of George III school
1997 The Scarlet Pimpernel juniors
1998 Nicholas Nickleby school
1998 Harlequinade juniors
1998 Inside trading boy-initiated’
1999 Amadeus by Peter Schaffer school
1999 Everyman school
1999 The ghost train juniors
2000 The resistible rise of Arturo Ui school
2000 Arsenic and old lace boy-initiated’
2000 The yeomen of the guard by Gilbert & Sullivan Dons Play
2001 La cantatrice chauve Mod Langs
2001 Jesus Christ Superstar school
2002 Showstoppers school
2002 Showstoppers Dons Review
2002 Oh what a lovely war school
2002 The frogs by Aristophanes Shells
2002 Example 6th form
2003 Another country school
2003 Brokenville school
2003 Metamorphosis 6th form
2003 Oedipus 6th form
2003 Lord of the flies Shells
2004 Noises off by Michael Frayn Dons Play
2004 Journey’s end Removes
2004 Cabaret school
2005 The school for scandal school
2005 A midsummer night’s dream school
2006 The school for scandal school
2006 Richard III juniors
2006 Charlie and the chocolate factory boy initiated
2006 A few good men school
2007 Art Dons Play
2007 West Side story school
2007 Oliver Twist Removes
2007 Lord of the flies Shells
2007 The dons revue Dons Review
2008 The happiest days of your life by John Dighton Dons Play
2008 Scarlet Pimpernel Removes
2008 With intent Shells
2008 Richard III school
2009 The trial Removes
2009 Tom Brown’s schooldays Shells
2009 Les Miserables school
2010 Royal hunt of the sun by Peter Shaffer Removes
2010 Dick Barton, Special Agent Shells
2010 Daisy pulls it off Dons Play
2010 L’Hotel de Paris school
2011 Billy Budd by Louis O Coxe & Robert Chapman Removes
2011 The history boys 6.1
2011 Milligan Cup for Musical Theatre inaugurated
2011 Julius Caesar by Shakespeare Shells
2011 Sweeney Todd school
2012 Madness of King George III Removes
2012 Arcadia 6.1
2012 Treasure Island Shells
2012 The Laramie Project school
2013 Twelve angry men 6.1
2013 Oliver! Removes/Shells
2013 The wind in the willows Dons Play
2013 The international inspector school
2014 Red noses Removes
2014 Journey’s end by RC Sherriff 6.1
2014 The thwarting of Baron Bolligrew Shells
2014 The Producers school
undated Electra or Agamemnon unknown
undated Greek play – Frogs?
undated The admirable Philly by TEE Cocks RC Marionette Soc
undated play by Euripides the school
undated Ralph Roister Doister by Nicholas Udall Corpus Owlets (CCCC)
undated Iolanthe by Gilbert & Sullivan RC Marionette Soc
undated The pirates of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan RC Marionette Soc
undated Professor’s luck by IV 2b
undated A dream of fair women
undated Agamemnon
undated Twelfth night by Shakespeare (dir by G Catherwood) school
undated Doctor Faustus A & B Socials
undated Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare (Dir by Barry Webb) school
undated Le bourgeois gentilhomme by Moliere French Dept
undated Patience by Gilbert & Sullivan RC G&S Soc
undated Nosferatu by Stephen Rathbone school
undated A fishy business by Margaret Wood unknown
undated Zartan D Social
undated E Social Christmas Spectacular E Social
undated Absurb person singular by Alan Ayckbourn H Social
undated Tonight at 8.30 by Noel Coward F Social (Hastings)
undated The pirates of Penzance by Gilbert & Sullivan Johnson’s & Spens Socials
undated Come on, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse unknown
undated Loyd George knew my father by William Douglas Home unknown
undated And so ad infinitum by the Brothers Kapek RCADS
undated The threepenny opera by Bertholt Brecht RC Marionette Soc
undated Orphee by Jean Cocteau unknown
undated Trial by Jury by Gilbert & Sullivan school with St Helen’s
undated Trial by Jury by Gilbert & Sullivan RC Marionette Society
undated Sigmund Wily’s subterfuge by JPW Caldwell unknown