PAST PRODUCTIONS BY TITLE
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| Play | Date |
| 3 into 1 – | Feb 2007 |
| 3 into 1 – | Nov 2004 |
| 39 Steps (The) – Patrick Barlow (adapted by) John Buchan & Alfred Hitchcock | Apr 2015 |
| Abandonment – Kate Atkinson | Apr 2006 |
| Abigail’s Party – Mike Leigh | Apr 1983 |
| Absurd Person Singular – Alan Ayckbourn | Oct 2015 |
| Accrington Pals (The) – Peter Whelan | Apr 1995 |
| Aladdin – Norman Robbins | Jan 2006 |
| Aladdin – | Jan 1989 |
| Aladdin – Martin Blinkhorn & Roy Albans. Adapted Carole Whitehill & Richard Westcott. | Jan 1978 |
| Aladdin – Martin Blinkhorn and Roy Albans | Jan 1966 |
| Aladdin – Martin Blinkhorn and Roy Albans | Jan 1955 |
| Alice in Wonderland /Through the Looking Glass – | Jan 1981 |
| All For Mary – Kay Bannerman, Harold Brooke | Oct 1957 |
| All My Sons – Arthur Miller | Jul 1997 |
| Allotment (The) – Gillian Plowman | Jun 2017 |
| Amadeus – Peter Shaffer | Nov 2010 |
| An Ideal Husband – Oscar Wilde | Sep 1951 |
| An Inspector Calls – J B Priestley | Mar 2013 |
| An Inspector Calls – J B Priestley | Oct 1985 |
| An Inspector Calls – J B Priestley | Mar 1962 |
| Angels In Love – Hugh Mills | Nov 1958 |
| Anniversary (The) – Bill Macilwraith | Dec 1971 |
| Arsenic and Old Lace – Joseph Kesselring | Feb 1993 |
| Arsenic and Old Lace – Joseph Kesselring | Jan 1949 |
| As You Like It – William Shakespeare | Jul 1981 |
| Audience with Murder – Roger Leach & Colin Wakefield | Nov 2018 |
| Babes In The Wood – Paul Reakes | Nov 2009 |
| Babes In The Wood – | Jan 1956 |
| Barefoot in the Park – Neil Simon | Apr 2005 |
| Beauty and the Beast – | Dec 1952 |
| Bedroom Farce – Alan Ayckbourn | Oct 2014 |
| Bell, Book and Candle – John Van Druten | Apr 1963 |
| BFG (The) – Roald Dahl Adapted by David Wood | Jan 2004 |
| Black Comedy and Dock Brief – Peter Shaffer and John Mortimer | Apr 1979 |
| Blithe Spirit – Noël Coward | Nov 2003 |
| Blithe Spirit – Noël Coward | Mar 1947 |
| Blue Remembered Hills – Dennis Potter | Nov 1997 |
| Bonaventure – Charlotte Hastings | Oct 1956 |
| Brassed Off – Paul Allen & Mark Herman | Mar 2011 |
| Breaking the Code – Hugh Whitemore | Apr 2008 |
| Breath Of Spring – Peter Coke | Apr 1960 |
| Cabaret – John Van Druten and Stories by Christopher Isherwood | Nov 1991 |
| Caesar and Cleopatra – George Bernard Shaw | Nov 1980 |
| Calendar Girls – Tim Firth | Nov 2013 |
| Calendar Girls Cancelled due to flood – Tim Firth | Nov 2012 |
| Canary Cage (The) – Diana Raffle | Jun 2015 |
| Candied Peel – Falkland L Cary | Jan 1946 |
| Caucasian Chalk Circle (The) – Bertolt Brecht | Jul 1995 |
| Caught in the Net – Ray Cooney | Feb 2017 |
| Caught Napping – Geoffrey Lumsden | Apr 1972 |
| Charley’s Aunt – Brandon Thomas | Apr 1981 |
| Charley’s Aunt – Brandon Thomas | Mar 1957 |
| Cherry Orchard (The) – Anton Chekhov | Apr 1970 |
| Chicago – Maurine Dallas Watkins adapted by David Thompson | Dec 1992 |
| Christmas Carol (A) – Adapted for the stage by Tony Neale, from the story by Charles Dickens | Jan 2000 |
| Cider with Rosie – Laurie Lee, adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans | Jul 2002 |
| Cinderella – Justin Clinch | Nov 2023 |
| Cinderella – Martin Blinkhorn | Jan 2003 |
| Cinderella – John Crocker and Eric Gilder | Jan 1983 |
| Cinderella – Martin Blinkhorn | Jan 1973 |
| Cinderella – Martin Blinkhorn | Jan 1962 |
| Cinderella – Martin Blinkhorn | Jan 1954 |
| Comedy of Errors – William Shakespeare | Jul 1987 |
| Communicating Doors – Alan Ayckbourn | Apr 2010 |
| Confusions – Alan Ayckbourn | Apr 1989 |
| Contractions – Mike Bartlett | Jun 2019 |
| Cripple of Inishmaan (The) – Martin McDonagh | Jul 2018 |
| Crucible (The) – Arthur Miller | Nov 2016 |
| Crucible (The) – Arthur Miller | Apr 1964 |
| Daisy Pulls It Off – Denise Deegan | Apr 1992 |
| Dancing at Lughnasa – Brian Friel | Mar 2002 |
| Dangerous Corner – J B Priestley | Oct 1949 |
| Dear Brutus – J M Barrie | Oct 1950 |
| Dear Charles – Alan Melville | Mar 1961 |
| Death Knell – James Cawood | May 2019 |
| Dial M for Murder – Frederick Knott | Jul 2003 |
| Dick Turpin & Black Bess – | Jan 1998 |
| Dick Whittington – | Jan 1984 |
| Dick Whittington – | Jan 1958 |
| Ding Dong – Marc Camoletti & Tudor Gates | May 2012 |
| Dinner With The Family – Jean Anouilh | Oct 1964 |
| Doll’s House (A) – Henrik Ibsen | Dec 1994 |
| Don’t Blame it on the Boots – N J Warburton | Jun 2013 |
| Dracula – Bram Stoker adapted by Jane Thornton & John Godber | Jul 2015 |
| Dresser (The) – Ronald Harwood | Jul 2007 |
| Dumb Waiter (The) – Harold Pinter | Jul 2016 |
| Dumb Waiter (The) – Harold Pinter | 1989 |
| Entertaining Mr. Sloan – Joe Orton | Mar 1977 |
| Extraordinary Revelations of Orca the Goldfish (The) – David Tristram | Jul 2016 |
| Fairy Queen Who Lost Her Crown (The) – Nick Baldwin | Jan 1970 |
| Fallen Angels – Noël Coward | Jun 1974 |
| Flashing Stream (The) – Charles Morgan | Oct 1952 |
| Fools Rush In – Kenneth Horne | Mar 1949 |
| Forty Years On – Alan Bennett | Nov 1973 |
| from Beyond the Fringe (The Sermon) – part of 3 into 1 – Alan Bennett | Nov 2004 |
| from Confusions (Gosforth’s Fete) – part of 3 into 1 – Alan Ayckbourn | Nov 2004 |
| from Visiting Hour (Plaster and Waiting) – part of 3 into 1 – Richard Harris | Nov 2004 |
| Fumed Oak – Noel Coward | Oct 2007 |
| GamePlan – Alan Ayckbourn | Feb 2019 |
| Garden Party (The) – Hazel Wyld and Jimmie Chinn | Jul 2011 |
| Gaslight – Patrick Hamilton | Nov 1998 |
| George and Margaret – Gerald Savory | May 1946 |
| George Dillon – John Osborne and Anthony Creighton | Oct 1965 |
| Getting Dark – Joe Graham | Jun 2023 |
| Ghost of a Chance – Brian J Burton | Jun 2014 |
| Ghost Train (The) – Arnold Ridley | Nov 1976 |
| Ghosts – Henrik Ibsen adapted by Mike Poulton | Jul 2019 |
| Gingerbread Man (The) – David Wood | Jan 1991 |
| God of Carnage – Yasmina Reza | Mar 2014 |
| Goodbye Charles – Gabriel Benjamin Davis | Sep 2025 |
| Goodnight Mrs Puffin – Arthur Lovegrove | Nov 1987 |
| Government Inspector (The) – Nikolai Gogol. Translated and adapted by Alistair Beaton | Apr 1976 |
| Grand National Night – Campbell and Dorothy Christie | Apr 1950 |
| Habeus Corpus – Alan Bennett | Apr 1994 |
| Hamlet of Stepney Green – Bernard Kops | Nov 1967 |
| Hans, the Witch and the Gobbin – Alan Cullen | Jan 1977 |
| Happiest Days of Your Life (The) – John Dighton | Jan 1952 |
| Hay Fever – Noël Coward | Feb 1995 |
| Hay Fever – Noël Coward | Oct 1955 |
| Hay Fever – Noël Coward | Apr 1945 |
| Herbal Bed (The) – Peter Whelan | May 2001 |
| Here We Come Gathering – Philip King and Anthony Armstrong | Oct 1953 |
| Hippo Dancing – Robert Morley | Apr 1959 |
| Hitman (The) – part of 3 in 1 2007 – JCW Brook | Feb 2007 |
| Hobson’s Choice – Harold Brighouse | Apr 1997 |
| Hobson’s Choice – Harold Brighouse | Nov 1969 |
| Hollow (The) – Agatha Christie | Apr 2016 |
| Hollow (The) – Agatha Christie | Apr 1966 |
| Home, I’m Darling – Laura Wade | Jul 2024 |
| Hostage (The) – Brendan Behan | Nov 1963 |
| Hotel Paradiso – Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres Translation by Peter Glenville | Apr 1978 |
| Hound of the Baskervilles (The) – Arthur Conan Doyle (Sir), adapted by Simon Williams | Nov 2005 |
| How Are They at Home? – J B Priestley | Jan 1947 |
| How He Lied to her Husband (Part of Divertissement) – George Bernard Shaw | Jul 1954 |
| How The Other Half Loves – Alan Ayckbourn | Apr 1984 |
| Importance of Being Earnest (The) – Oscar Wilde | Nov 1959 |
| In Room five Hundred and Four – part of 3 in 1 2007 – Jimmie Chinn | Feb 2007 |
| Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime – David Tristram | Mar 2025 |
| It Runs in the Family – Ray Cooney | Feb 2016 |
| Jack and the Beanstalk – Jeff Clarke | Jan 2005 |
| Jack and the Beanstalk – Ronald Parr | Jan 1963 |
| James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl Adapted by David Wood | Nov 2011 |
| Journeys End (Excepts from) – R C Sherriff | Nov 1953 |
| Katherine Howard – William Nicholson | Jul 2005 |
| Kiss on the Bottom (A) – Frank Vickery | Feb 2009 |
| Ladies in Retirement – Edward Percy & Reginald Denham | Sep 1946 |
| Lady Audley’s Secret – Brian J Burton | Nov 1977 |
| Lady Windermere’s Fan – Oscar Wilde | Apr 1967 |
| Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme – Molière | Jul 1989 |
| Lion In Winter (The) – James Goldman | Mar 1975 |
| Little Red Riding Hood – K O Samuel | Jan 1953 |
| Live Like Pigs – John Arden | Oct 1970 |
| Look After Lulu – Noël Coward | Nov 1968 |
| Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime – Constance Cox Based on the story by Oscar Wilde | Feb 2008 |
| Love In Idleness – Terence Rattigan | Jan 1950 |
| Lover (The) – Harold Pinter | 1989 |
| Lovers’ Leap – Bill Daily | Jan 1948 |
| Lovesong – Abi Morgan | Jul 2017 |
| Macbeth – William Shakespeare | Feb 1999 |
| Magistrate (The) – Arthur Wing Pinero | Nov 1981 |
| Major Barbara – Bernard Shaw | Nov 1975 |
| Mayor of Casterbridge (The) – Thomas Hardy | Jul 1999 |
| Memory of Water (The) – Shelagh Stephenson | Jul 2014 |
| Men of the World – John Godber | Jul 2008 |
| Merchant Of Venice (The) – William Shakespeare | Jul 1991 |
| Merchant Of Venice (The) – William Shakespeare | Jul 1982 |
| Merrie England – Edward German | Aug 2000 |
| Merry Wives of Windsor – William Shakespeare | Jul 1978 |
| Merry Wives of Windsor – William Shakespeare | Jul 1965 |
| Merry Wives of Windsor (The) – William Shakespeare | Jul 1993 |
| Midsummer Night’s Dream (A) – William Shakespeare | Jul 2000 |
| Midsummer Night’s Dream (A) – William Shakespeare | Jul 1988 |
| Midsummer Night’s Dream (A) – William Shakespeare | Jul 1977 |
| Miser (The) – Molière | Dec 2001 |
| Mother Courage – Bertolt Brecht | Nov 1978 |
| Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare | Apr 1996 |
| Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare | Jul 1980 |
| Murder Has Been Arranged (A) – Emlyn Williams | Oct 1947 |
| My Boy Jack – David Haig | Feb 2018 |
| My Love is for Francis (Part of Divertissement) – Martin Blinkhorn | Jul 1954 |
| My Three Angels – Sam and Bella Spewack | Nov 1982 |
| Nell Gwynn – Jessica Swale | Feb 2020 |
| Neville’s Island – Tim Firth | Jul 2010 |
| Noises Off – Michael Frayn | Apr 1990 |
| Not Now Darling – Ray Cooney and John Chapman | May 1973 |
| Not Quite Sunset – Dorothy Burrows | Oct 2008 |
| Odd Couple (The) – Neil Simon | Nov 1983 |
| Odd Couple (The) (Female Version) – Neil Simon | Jul 2013 |
| Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe (The) – Trudy West | Jan 1960 |
| Oliver – Lionel Bart | Jan 1987 |
| On Approval – Frederick Lonsdale | Oct 1970 |
| On Golden Pond – Ernest Thompson | Apr 2004 |
| One for the Road – Willy Russell | May 2002 |
| Our Country’s Good – Timberlake Wertenbaker | Mar 1994 |
| Our Country’s Good – Timberlake Wertenbaker | Nov 2024 |
| Our Day Out – Willy Russell | Oct 1990 |
| Out of Order – Ray Cooney | Feb 2022 |
| Outside Edge – Richard Harris | Apr 1985 |
| Owl and The Pussycat (The) – Sheila Ruskin and David Wood | Jan 1972 |
| Pack of Lies – Hugh Whitemore | Feb 2015 |
| Pack of Lies – Hugh Whitemore | Oct 1989 |
| Peas – David Tristram | Jul 2016 |
| Penny for a Song (A) – John Whiting | Apr 1965 |
| People – Alan Bennett | Apr 2018 |
| Peter Pan – | Jan 1985 |
| Peter Pan – Sir James Barrie | Jan 1964 |
| Physicists (The) – Friedrich Durrenmatt | Oct 1972 |
| Pied Piper – | Jan 1959 |
| Pinocchio – Brian Way | Jan 1986 |
| Pinocchio – Brian Way | Jan 1974 |
| Pirates Of Penzance – W S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan | Jun 1961 |
| Play’s the Thing (The) – Ferenc Molnar from P.G. Wodehouse | Nov 1995 |
| Plaza Suite – Neil Simon | Feb 1980 |
| Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner (The) – David Wood | Jan 1976 |
| Pocket Dream (The) – Sandi Toksvig & Elly Brewer | May 2007 |
| Present Laughter – Noël Coward | Mar 1968 |
| Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (The) – Muriel Spark / Jay Presson Allen | Apr 1986 |
| Princess and the Swineherd (The) – Nicholas Stuart Gray | Jan 1968 |
| Puck – Hannah O’Donnell | Jul 2025 |
| Quartet – Ronald Harwood | Feb 2010 |
| Railway Children (The) – Dave Simpson | Jan 1990 |
| Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier | Nov 1966 |
| Regina Monologues (The) – Rebecca Russell and Jenny Wafer | Jun 2016 |
| Relapse (The) – John Vanbrugh | Jul 1998 |
| Relatively Speaking – Alan Ayckbourn | Apr 1982 |
| Ride A Cock Horse – Martin Blinkhorn | Jan 1971 |
| Ride A Cock Horse – David Mercer | Jan 1961 |
| Ring Round The Moon – Jean Anouilh | Jul 1983 |
| Ring Round The Moon – Jean Anouilh | Oct 1961 |
| Rivals (The) – Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Jul 1985 |
| Robinson Crusoe and the Pirates – Paul Reakes | Nov 2007 |
| Role Play – Alan Ayckbourn | May 2009 |
| Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare | Apr 2023 |
| Rookery Nook – Ben Travers | Mar 1956 |
| Ruddigore – W S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan | Jul 1960 |
| Running Riot – Derek Benfield | Oct 1988 |
| Saloon Bar – Frank Harvey | Oct 1984 |
| Say Something Happened – part of 3 into 1 – Alan Bennett | Nov 2004 |
| School for Scandal – Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Jul 1992 |
| Season’s Greetings – Alan Ayckbourn | Nov 2017 |
| Season’s Greetings – Alan Ayckbourn | Jul 2001 |
| See How They Run – Philip King | Oct 1986 |
| See How They Run – Philip King | Jan 1951 |
| Semi-Detached – David Turner | Nov 1974 |
| Separate Tables – Terence Rattigan | Nov 1999 |
| Servant of Two Masters (The) – Carlo Goldoni adapted by David Turner and Paul Lapworth | Jul 1986 |
| Sex, Drugs and Rick ‘n’ Noel – David Tristram | Jul 2006 |
| She Stoops to Conquer – Oliver Goldsmith | Jul 1994 |
| Sinbad The Sailor – Pauline Stuart | Jan 1969 |
| Sleeping Beauty – | Jan 1957 |
| Slight Ache (A) – Harold Pinter | 1989 |
| Snatching of Horrible Harold/Stevie (The) – | Apr 1991 |
| Spider’s Web – Agatha Christie | May 2022 |
| Steel Magnolias – Robert Harling | Apr 2000 |
| Stepping Out – Richard Harris | Nov 2000 |
| Taking Steps – Alan Ayckbourn | Apr 1993 |
| Tale of Two Cities (A) – Matthew Francis, adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens | Jul 2004 |
| Taming Of The Shrew – William Shakespeare | Oct 1971 |
| Taming of the Shrew (The) – William Shakespeare | Jul 1984 |
| Tempest (The) – William Shakespeare | Apr 2017 |
| Ten Little Niggers – Agatha Christie | Apr 1952 |
| The Donahue Sisters – Geraldine Aron | Jun 2010 |
| The Hollow Crown – Devised by John Barton | Nov 1979 |
| The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – | Jan 1996 |
| The Orchestra/The Real Inspector Hound – Jean Anouilh Translated by Miriam John/Tom Stoppard | Nov 1993 |
| The Proposal – Anton Chekhov | Sep 2024 |
| The Thrill of Love – Cancelled due to Flooding – This play has not been rescheduled – Amanda Whittington | Nov 2019 |
| The Trench – Steve Hatt | Sep 2012 |
| The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Joan Aiken | Nov 2022 |
| The Woman who Cooked her Husband – Debbie Isitt | Nov 2021 |
| Theatrical Feast (A) – One-act plays by David Tristram and Harold Pinter | Jul 2016 |
| Thieves’ Carnival – Lucienne Hill | Apr 1974 |
| Things I Know to be True – Andrew Bovell | Jul 2023 |
| Three Sisters (The) – Anton Chekhov | Apr 1988 |
| Through The Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll | Jan 1965 |
| Tilly of Bloomsbury – Ian Hay | Mar 1948 |
| Time and the Conways – J B Priestley | Mar 1951 |
| Tinder Box (The) – Hans Christian Andersen | Nov 2008 |
| Toad Of Toad Hall – adapted from the story by A A Milne | Jan 1979 |
| Toad Of Toad Hall – from Kenneth Grahame`s book `The Wind in the Willows` | Jan 1967 |
| Tom’s Midnight Garden – David Wood From the book by Philippa Pearce | Nov 2006 |
| Trespass – Emlyn Williams | Oct 1954 |
| Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare | May 2014 |
| Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare | Jul 1990 |
| Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare | Jul 1979 |
| Two – part of 3 in 1 2007 – Jim Cartwright | Feb 2007 |
| Under Milk Wood – Dylan Thomas | 1989 |
| Unexpected Guest (The) – Agatha Christie | Mar 2012 |
| Up ‘n’ Under – John Godber | Oct 1996 |
| Victim – Don West | Jul 2009 |
| Wait Until Dark – Frederick Knott | Apr 1971 |
| Waiting for Gillian – Nigel Balchin | Apr 1958 |
| Warm, Hot, Getting Hotter – Lou Treleaven | Jun 2018 |
| Way Upstream – Alan Ayckbourn | Feb 1997 |
| When We Are Married – J B Priestley | Dec 2002 |
| When We Are Married – J B Priestley | Apr 1987 |
| White Sheep of the Family (The) – L Du Garde Peach & Ian Hay | Mar 1954 |
| Whodunnit – Anthony Shaffer | May 2013 |
| Will Any Gentleman? – Vernon Sylvaine | Nov 1962 |
| Wind in the Willows (The) – Kenneth Grahame adapted by Alan Bennett | Jan 2001 |
| Wind Of Heaven (The) – Emlyn Williams | Nov 1960 |
| Winnie the Pooh – | Jan 1992 |
| Winnie the Pooh – A A Milne with additional material by Martin Blinkhorn | Jan 1975 |
| Without the Prince – Philip King | Sep 1945 |
| Witness For The Prosecution – Agatha Christie | Mar 1969 |
| Wizard Of Oz (The) – | Jan 1982 |
| Worm’s Eye View – Hugh Hastings | Mar 1953 |
| Wuthering Heights – Jane Thornton (adapted by) from the novel by Emily Brontë | Jul 2012 |
| Wyrd Sisters – Terry Pratchett | May 2011 |
| You Can’t Take It With You – Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman | Mar 1955 |
| Young Mrs Barrington – Warren Chetham | Oct 1948 |
This Productions by Title page provides a full list of past productions from 80 years of theatre in Banbury. To assist members in planning the future programme, plays can also be listed in date or playwright order. Some plays have, in a separate page, information which may include cast lists, photographs, a synopsis and other information relation to the show. Please click the play title to see this information.
Banbury Cross Players produce several full length plays a year, performed at The Mill Arts Centre. In addition we regularly take part in Drama Festivals in Oxfordshire and nearby. At our Season Preview event each Autumn we present our forthcoming programme to Members, Gold Card Holders and anyone interested. Perhaps we will perform a short one-act play. This is sometimes the play performed at the Drama Festival which many in the audience will have been unable to see previously. We take part in Banbury’s Canal Day each year and have performed at other interesting locations such as Wroxton Abbey, Upton House, Sulgrave Manor and The RSC Courtyard at Stratford. For each of our plays we hold a members’ audition and a separate open audition to encourage people from outside the group to come along and show their skills. Many new members start via an open audition.