PAST PRODUCTIONS BY PLAYWRIGHT
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| Author | Play – Date |
| A A Milne with additional material by Martin Blinkhorn | Winnie the Pooh – Jan 1975 |
| Abi Morgan | Lovesong – Jul 2017 |
| Adapted for the stage by Tony Neale, from the story by Charles Dickens | Christmas Carol (A) – Jan 2000 |
| adapted from the story by A A Milne | Toad Of Toad Hall – Jan 1979 |
| Agatha Christie | Hollow (The) – Apr 2016 |
| Agatha Christie | Hollow (The) – Apr 1966 |
| Agatha Christie | Spider’s Web – May 2022 |
| Agatha Christie | Ten Little Niggers – Apr 1952 |
| Agatha Christie | Unexpected Guest (The) – Mar 2012 |
| Agatha Christie | Witness For The Prosecution – Mar 1969 |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Absurd Person Singular – Oct 2015 |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Bedroom Farce – Oct 2014 |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Communicating Doors – Apr 2010 |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Confusions – Apr 1989 |
| Alan Ayckbourn | from Confusions (Gosforth’s Fete) – part of 3 into 1 – Nov 2004 |
| Alan Ayckbourn | GamePlan – Feb 2019 |
| Alan Ayckbourn | How The Other Half Loves – Apr 1984 |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Relatively Speaking – Apr 1982 |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Role Play – May 2009 |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Season’s Greetings – Nov 2017 |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Season’s Greetings – Jul 2001 |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Taking Steps – Apr 1993 |
| Alan Ayckbourn | Way Upstream – Feb 1997 |
| Alan Bennett | Forty Years On – Nov 1973 |
| Alan Bennett | from Beyond the Fringe (The Sermon) – part of 3 into 1 – Nov 2004 |
| Alan Bennett | Habeus Corpus – Apr 1994 |
| Alan Bennett | People – Apr 2018 |
| Alan Bennett | Say Something Happened – part of 3 into 1 – Nov 2004 |
| Alan Cullen | Hans, the Witch and the Gobbin – Jan 1977 |
| Alan Melville | Dear Charles – Mar 1961 |
| Amanda Whittington | The Thrill of Love – Cancelled due to Flooding – This play has not been rescheduled – Nov 2019 |
| Andrew Bovell | Things I Know to be True – Jul 2023 |
| Anthony Shaffer | Whodunnit – May 2013 |
| Anton Chekhov | Cherry Orchard (The) – Apr 1970 |
| Anton Chekhov | The Proposal – Sep 2024 |
| Anton Chekhov | Three Sisters (The) – Apr 1988 |
| Arnold Ridley | Ghost Train (The) – Nov 1976 |
| Arthur Conan Doyle (Sir), adapted by Simon Williams | Hound of the Baskervilles (The) – Nov 2005 |
| Arthur Lovegrove | Goodnight Mrs Puffin – Nov 1987 |
| Arthur Miller | All My Sons – Jul 1997 |
| Arthur Miller | Crucible (The) – Nov 2016 |
| Arthur Miller | Crucible (The) – Apr 1964 |
| Arthur Wing Pinero | Magistrate (The) – Nov 1981 |
| Ben Travers | Rookery Nook – Mar 1956 |
| Bernard Kops | Hamlet of Stepney Green – Nov 1967 |
| Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara – Nov 1975 |
| Bertolt Brecht | Caucasian Chalk Circle (The) – Jul 1995 |
| Bertolt Brecht | Mother Courage – Nov 1978 |
| Bill Daily | Lovers’ Leap – Jan 1948 |
| Bill Macilwraith | Anniversary (The) – Dec 1971 |
| Bram Stoker adapted by Jane Thornton & John Godber | Dracula – Jul 2015 |
| Brandon Thomas | Charley’s Aunt – Apr 1981 |
| Brandon Thomas | Charley’s Aunt – Mar 1957 |
| Brendan Behan | Hostage (The) – Nov 1963 |
| Brian Friel | Dancing at Lughnasa – Mar 2002 |
| Brian J Burton | Ghost of a Chance – Jun 2014 |
| Brian J Burton | Lady Audley’s Secret – Nov 1977 |
| Brian Way | Pinocchio – Jan 1986 |
| Brian Way | Pinocchio – Jan 1974 |
| Campbell and Dorothy Christie | Grand National Night – Apr 1950 |
| Carlo Goldoni adapted by David Turner and Paul Lapworth | Servant of Two Masters (The) – Jul 1986 |
| Charles Morgan | Flashing Stream (The) – Oct 1952 |
| Charlotte Hastings | Bonaventure – Oct 1956 |
| Constance Cox Based on the story by Oscar Wilde | Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime – Feb 2008 |
| Daphne du Maurier | Rebecca – Nov 1966 |
| Dave Simpson | Railway Children (The) – Jan 1990 |
| David Haig | My Boy Jack – Feb 2018 |
| David Mercer | Ride A Cock Horse – Jan 1961 |
| David Tristram | Extraordinary Revelations of Orca the Goldfish (The) – Jul 2016 |
| David Tristram | Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime – Mar 2025 |
| David Tristram | Peas – Jul 2016 |
| David Tristram | Sex, Drugs and Rick ‘n’ Noel – Jul 2006 |
| David Turner | Semi-Detached – Nov 1974 |
| David Wood From the book by Philippa Pearce | Tom’s Midnight Garden – Nov 2006 |
| David Wood | Gingerbread Man (The) – Jan 1991 |
| David Wood | Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner (The) – Jan 1976 |
| Debbie Isitt | The Woman who Cooked her Husband – Nov 2021 |
| Denise Deegan | Daisy Pulls It Off – Apr 1992 |
| Dennis Potter | Blue Remembered Hills – Nov 1997 |
| Derek Benfield | Running Riot – Oct 1988 |
| Devised by John Barton | The Hollow Crown – Nov 1979 |
| Diana Raffle | Canary Cage (The) – Jun 2015 |
| Don West | Victim – Jul 2009 |
| Dorothy Burrows | Not Quite Sunset – Oct 2008 |
| Dylan Thomas | Under Milk Wood – 1989 |
| Edward German | Merrie England – Aug 2000 |
| Edward Percy & Reginald Denham | Ladies in Retirement – Sep 1946 |
| Emlyn Williams | Murder Has Been Arranged (A) – Oct 1947 |
| Emlyn Williams | Trespass – Oct 1954 |
| Emlyn Williams | Wind Of Heaven (The) – Nov 1960 |
| Ernest Thompson | On Golden Pond – Apr 2004 |
| Falkland L Cary | Candied Peel – Jan 1946 |
| Ferenc Molnar from P.G. Wodehouse | Play’s the Thing (The) – Nov 1995 |
| Frank Harvey | Saloon Bar – Oct 1984 |
| Frank Vickery | Kiss on the Bottom (A) – Feb 2009 |
| Frederick Knott | Dial M for Murder – Jul 2003 |
| Frederick Knott | Wait Until Dark – Apr 1971 |
| Frederick Lonsdale | On Approval – Oct 1970 |
| Friedrich Durrenmatt | Physicists (The) – Oct 1972 |
| from Kenneth Grahame`s book `The Wind in the Willows` | Toad Of Toad Hall – Jan 1967 |
| Gabriel Benjamin Davis | Goodbye Charles – Sep 2025 |
| Geoffrey Lumsden | Caught Napping – Apr 1972 |
| George Bernard Shaw | Caesar and Cleopatra – Nov 1980 |
| George Bernard Shaw | How He Lied to her Husband (Part of Divertissement) – Jul 1954 |
| Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres Translation by Peter Glenville | Hotel Paradiso – Apr 1978 |
| Gerald Savory | George and Margaret – May 1946 |
| Geraldine Aron | The Donahue Sisters – Jun 2010 |
| Gillian Plowman | Allotment (The) – Jun 2017 |
| Hannah O’Donnell | Puck – Jul 2025 |
| Hans Christian Andersen | Tinder Box (The) – Nov 2008 |
| Harold Brighouse | Hobson’s Choice – Apr 1997 |
| Harold Brighouse | Hobson’s Choice – Nov 1969 |
| Harold Pinter | Dumb Waiter (The) – Jul 2016 |
| Harold Pinter | Dumb Waiter (The) – 1989 |
| Harold Pinter | Lover (The) – 1989 |
| Harold Pinter | Slight Ache (A) – 1989 |
| Hazel Wyld and Jimmie Chinn | Garden Party (The) – Jul 2011 |
| Henrik Ibsen | Doll’s House (A) – Dec 1994 |
| Henrik Ibsen adapted by Mike Poulton | Ghosts – Jul 2019 |
| Hugh Hastings | Worm’s Eye View – Mar 1953 |
| Hugh Mills | Angels In Love – Nov 1958 |
| Hugh Whitemore | Breaking the Code – Apr 2008 |
| Hugh Whitemore | Pack of Lies – Feb 2015 |
| Hugh Whitemore | Pack of Lies – Oct 1989 |
| Ian Hay | Tilly of Bloomsbury – Mar 1948 |
| J B Priestley | An Inspector Calls – Mar 2013 |
| J B Priestley | An Inspector Calls – Oct 1985 |
| J B Priestley | An Inspector Calls – Mar 1962 |
| J B Priestley | Dangerous Corner – Oct 1949 |
| J B Priestley | How Are They at Home? – Jan 1947 |
| J B Priestley | Time and the Conways – Mar 1951 |
| J B Priestley | When We Are Married – Dec 2002 |
| J B Priestley | When We Are Married – Apr 1987 |
| J M Barrie | Dear Brutus – Oct 1950 |
| James Cawood | Death Knell – May 2019 |
| James Goldman | Lion In Winter (The) – Mar 1975 |
| Jane Thornton (adapted by) from the novel by Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights – Jul 2012 |
| JCW Brook | Hitman (The) – part of 3 in 1 2007 – Feb 2007 |
| Jean Anouilh | Dinner With The Family – Oct 1964 |
| Jean Anouilh | Ring Round The Moon – Jul 1983 |
| Jean Anouilh | Ring Round The Moon – Oct 1961 |
| Jean Anouilh Translated by Miriam John/Tom Stoppard | The Orchestra/The Real Inspector Hound – Nov 1993 |
| Jeff Clarke | Jack and the Beanstalk – Jan 2005 |
| Jessica Swale | Nell Gwynn – Feb 2020 |
| Jim Cartwright | Two – part of 3 in 1 2007 – Feb 2007 |
| Jimmie Chinn | In Room five Hundred and Four – part of 3 in 1 2007 – Feb 2007 |
| Joan Aiken | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase – Nov 2022 |
| Joe Graham | Getting Dark – Jun 2023 |
| Joe Orton | Entertaining Mr. Sloan – Mar 1977 |
| John Arden | Live Like Pigs – Oct 1970 |
| John Crocker and Eric Gilder | Cinderella – Jan 1983 |
| John Dighton | Happiest Days of Your Life (The) – Jan 1952 |
| John Godber | Men of the World – Jul 2008 |
| John Godber | Up ‘n’ Under – Oct 1996 |
| John Osborne and Anthony Creighton | George Dillon – Oct 1965 |
| John Van Druten | Bell, Book and Candle – Apr 1963 |
| John Van Druten and Stories by Christopher Isherwood | Cabaret – Nov 1991 |
| John Vanbrugh | Relapse (The) – Jul 1998 |
| John Whiting | Penny for a Song (A) – Apr 1965 |
| Joseph Kesselring | Arsenic and Old Lace – Feb 1993 |
| Joseph Kesselring | Arsenic and Old Lace – Jan 1949 |
| Justin Clinch | Cinderella – Nov 2023 |
| K O Samuel | Little Red Riding Hood – Jan 1953 |
| Kate Atkinson | Abandonment – Apr 2006 |
| Kay Bannerman, Harold Brooke | All For Mary – Oct 1957 |
| Kenneth Grahame adapted by Alan Bennett | Wind in the Willows (The) – Jan 2001 |
| Kenneth Horne | Fools Rush In – Mar 1949 |
| L Du Garde Peach & Ian Hay | White Sheep of the Family (The) – Mar 1954 |
| Laura Wade | Home, I’m Darling – Jul 2024 |
| Laurie Lee, adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans | Cider with Rosie – Jul 2002 |
| Lewis Carroll | Through The Looking Glass – Jan 1965 |
| Lionel Bart | Oliver – Jan 1987 |
| Lou Treleaven | Warm, Hot, Getting Hotter – Jun 2018 |
| Lucienne Hill | Thieves’ Carnival – Apr 1974 |
| Marc Camoletti & Tudor Gates | Ding Dong – May 2012 |
| Martin Blinkhorn | Cinderella – Jan 2003 |
| Martin Blinkhorn | Cinderella – Jan 1973 |
| Martin Blinkhorn | Cinderella – Jan 1962 |
| Martin Blinkhorn | Cinderella – Jan 1954 |
| Martin Blinkhorn | My Love is for Francis (Part of Divertissement) – Jul 1954 |
| Martin Blinkhorn | Ride A Cock Horse – Jan 1971 |
| Martin Blinkhorn & Roy Albans. Adapted Carole Whitehill & Richard Westcott. | Aladdin – Jan 1978 |
| Martin Blinkhorn and Roy Albans | Aladdin – Jan 1966 |
| Martin Blinkhorn and Roy Albans | Aladdin – Jan 1955 |
| Martin McDonagh | Cripple of Inishmaan (The) – Jul 2018 |
| Matthew Francis, adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens | Tale of Two Cities (A) – Jul 2004 |
| Maurine Dallas Watkins adapted by David Thompson | Chicago – Dec 1992 |
| Michael Frayn | Noises Off – Apr 1990 |
| Mike Bartlett | Contractions – Jun 2019 |
| Mike Leigh | Abigail’s Party – Apr 1983 |
| Molière | Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme – Jul 1989 |
| Molière | Miser (The) – Dec 2001 |
| Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman | You Can’t Take It With You – Mar 1955 |
| Muriel Spark / Jay Presson Allen | Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (The) – Apr 1986 |
| N J Warburton | Don’t Blame it on the Boots – Jun 2013 |
| Neil Simon | Barefoot in the Park – Apr 2005 |
| Neil Simon | Odd Couple (The) – Nov 1983 |
| Neil Simon | Odd Couple (The) (Female Version) – Jul 2013 |
| Neil Simon | Plaza Suite – Feb 1980 |
| Nicholas Stuart Gray | Princess and the Swineherd (The) – Jan 1968 |
| Nick Baldwin | Fairy Queen Who Lost Her Crown (The) – Jan 1970 |
| Nigel Balchin | Waiting for Gillian – Apr 1958 |
| Nikolai Gogol. Translated and adapted by Alistair Beaton | Government Inspector (The) – Apr 1976 |
| Noël Coward | Blithe Spirit – Nov 2003 |
| Noël Coward | Blithe Spirit – Mar 1947 |
| Noël Coward | Fallen Angels – Jun 1974 |
| Noël Coward | Hay Fever – Feb 1995 |
| Noël Coward | Hay Fever – Oct 1955 |
| Noël Coward | Hay Fever – Apr 1945 |
| Noël Coward | Look After Lulu – Nov 1968 |
| Noël Coward | Present Laughter – Mar 1968 |
| Noel Coward | Fumed Oak – Oct 2007 |
| Norman Robbins | Aladdin – Jan 2006 |
| Oliver Goldsmith | She Stoops to Conquer – Jul 1994 |
| One-act plays by David Tristram and Harold Pinter | Theatrical Feast (A) – Jul 2016 |
| Oscar Wilde | An Ideal Husband – Sep 1951 |
| Oscar Wilde | Importance of Being Earnest (The) – Nov 1959 |
| Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere’s Fan – Apr 1967 |
| Patrick Barlow (adapted by) John Buchan & Alfred Hitchcock | 39 Steps (The) – Apr 2015 |
| Patrick Hamilton | Gaslight – Nov 1998 |
| Paul Allen & Mark Herman | Brassed Off – Mar 2011 |
| Paul Reakes | Babes In The Wood – Nov 2009 |
| Paul Reakes | Robinson Crusoe and the Pirates – Nov 2007 |
| Pauline Stuart | Sinbad The Sailor – Jan 1969 |
| Peter Coke | Breath Of Spring – Apr 1960 |
| Peter Shaffer | Amadeus – Nov 2010 |
| Peter Shaffer and John Mortimer | Black Comedy and Dock Brief – Apr 1979 |
| Peter Whelan | Accrington Pals (The) – Apr 1995 |
| Peter Whelan | Herbal Bed (The) – May 2001 |
| Philip King | See How They Run – Oct 1986 |
| Philip King | See How They Run – Jan 1951 |
| Philip King | Without the Prince – Sep 1945 |
| Philip King and Anthony Armstrong | Here We Come Gathering – Oct 1953 |
| R C Sherriff | Journeys End (Excepts from) – Nov 1953 |
| Ray Cooney | Caught in the Net – Feb 2017 |
| Ray Cooney | It Runs in the Family – Feb 2016 |
| Ray Cooney | Out of Order – Feb 2022 |
| Ray Cooney and John Chapman | Not Now Darling – May 1973 |
| Rebecca Russell and Jenny Wafer | Regina Monologues (The) – Jun 2016 |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Rivals (The) – Jul 1985 |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | School for Scandal – Jul 1992 |
| Richard Harris | from Visiting Hour (Plaster and Waiting) – part of 3 into 1 – Nov 2004 |
| Richard Harris | Outside Edge – Apr 1985 |
| Richard Harris | Stepping Out – Nov 2000 |
| Roald Dahl Adapted by David Wood | BFG (The) – Jan 2004 |
| Roald Dahl Adapted by David Wood | James and the Giant Peach – Nov 2011 |
| Robert Harling | Steel Magnolias – Apr 2000 |
| Robert Morley | Hippo Dancing – Apr 1959 |
| Roger Leach & Colin Wakefield | Audience with Murder – Nov 2018 |
| Ronald Harwood | Dresser (The) – Jul 2007 |
| Ronald Harwood | Quartet – Feb 2010 |
| Ronald Parr | Jack and the Beanstalk – Jan 1963 |
| Sam and Bella Spewack | My Three Angels – Nov 1982 |
| Sandi Toksvig & Elly Brewer | Pocket Dream (The) – May 2007 |
| Sheila Ruskin and David Wood | Owl and The Pussycat (The) – Jan 1972 |
| Shelagh Stephenson | Memory of Water (The) – Jul 2014 |
| Sir James Barrie | Peter Pan – Jan 1964 |
| Steve Hatt | The Trench – Sep 2012 |
| Terence Rattigan | Love In Idleness – Jan 1950 |
| Terence Rattigan | Separate Tables – Nov 1999 |
| Terry Pratchett | Wyrd Sisters – May 2011 |
| Thomas Hardy | Mayor of Casterbridge (The) – Jul 1999 |
| Tim Firth | Calendar Girls – Nov 2013 |
| Tim Firth | Calendar Girls Cancelled due to flood – Nov 2012 |
| Tim Firth | Neville’s Island – Jul 2010 |
| Timberlake Wertenbaker | Our Country’s Good – Mar 1994 |
| Timberlake Wertenbaker | Our Country’s Good – Nov 2024 |
| Trudy West | Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe (The) – Jan 1960 |
| Vernon Sylvaine | Will Any Gentleman? – Nov 1962 |
| W S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan | Pirates Of Penzance – Jun 1961 |
| W S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan | Ruddigore – Jul 1960 |
| Warren Chetham | Young Mrs Barrington – Oct 1948 |
| William Nicholson | Katherine Howard – Jul 2005 |
| William Shakespeare | As You Like It – Jul 1981 |
| William Shakespeare | Comedy of Errors – Jul 1987 |
| William Shakespeare | Macbeth – Feb 1999 |
| William Shakespeare | Merchant Of Venice (The) – Jul 1991 |
| William Shakespeare | Merchant Of Venice (The) – Jul 1982 |
| William Shakespeare | Merry Wives of Windsor – Jul 1978 |
| William Shakespeare | Merry Wives of Windsor – Jul 1965 |
| William Shakespeare | Merry Wives of Windsor (The) – Jul 1993 |
| William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night’s Dream (A) – Jul 2000 |
| William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night’s Dream (A) – Jul 1988 |
| William Shakespeare | Midsummer Night’s Dream (A) – Jul 1977 |
| William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing – Apr 1996 |
| William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing – Jul 1980 |
| William Shakespeare | Romeo and Juliet – Apr 2023 |
| William Shakespeare | Taming Of The Shrew – Oct 1971 |
| William Shakespeare | Taming of the Shrew (The) – Jul 1984 |
| William Shakespeare | Tempest (The) – Apr 2017 |
| William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night – May 2014 |
| William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night – Jul 1990 |
| William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night – Jul 1979 |
| Willy Russell | One for the Road – May 2002 |
| Willy Russell | Our Day Out – Oct 1990 |
| Yasmina Reza | God of Carnage – Mar 2014 |
This List of Productions by Playwright page provides a list of past productions from over 70 years of theatre in Banbury. The list does not show an entry where Playwright details are not currently available. To assist members in planning the future programme, plays can also be listed in date or title 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 four full length plays a year, performed at The Mill Arts Centre. In addition we regularly take part in Drama Festivals in Oxfordshire. At our annual Season Preview each Autumn we present our forthcoming programme to Members and Gold Card Holders and perhaps 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.