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