List of Productions of the University of Canterbury Drama Society

This article contains a list of productions staged by the University of Canterbury Drama Society, from most to least recent, with authors and directors, if known. The list is not complete, with the most obvious gap in information being between the years of 1969 and 1991. If anyone has knowledge of what DramaSoc did during this period, please add this information to the article.

2008

*"That Comedy Show" - improvised and stand-up comedy (dir. Jeff Clark)
*"The Graduate" - Harry Gibson, adapted from the book by Charles Webb and the film by Mike Nichols (dir. Emma Cusdin & Hamish Parkinson)
*"Othello" - William Shakespeare (dir. Todd Dixon)
*"3some" - Various authors

2007

*"Catch 22" - Joseph Heller (dir. Ben Allan)
*"Trainspotting" - Terry Johnson, adapted from the book by Irvine Welsh (dir. Rob Tilby & Helen Prior)
*"3some with 4play" - Various authors

2006

*"3some" - Various authors
*"Courting Temptation" - Written and Directed by David Allen

2005

*"The Frogs" - Aristophanes (rewritten and directed by Brendon Bennetts)
*"The Tempest" - Shakespeare (dir. Scott Koorey)
*"Delusion of Darkness" - Steve Patterson (dir. Erin Harrington)
*"3some" - Various authors

2004

*"Lysistrata" - Aristophanes (adapted by Scott Koorey from a translation by George Theodoridis; directed by Koorey & Karen Healey)
*"Alice in Wonderland" - Lewis Carroll, adapted (and directed) by Lisa Norriss
*"3some with 4play" - Various authors

2003

*"Hybrid Pilfer" - Various authors (dir. Lisa Norriss)
*"Romeo & Juliet" - Shakespeare (dir. Karen Healey & Andrew Johnson)
*"Cosi" - Louis Nowra (dir. Christina Stachurski)
*"One Night Stand" - Various authors (dir. various)
*"3some with 4play" - Various authors

2002

*"Fou" - improvised
*"Raiders of the Lost Script" - devised and directed by Andrew Johnson and Jeff Clark
*"Richard III" - Shakespeare (dir. Melanie Camp)
*"3some" - Various authors

2001

*"Twelfth Night" - Shakespeare (dir. Erin Harrington)
*"Popcorn" - Ben Elton (dir. Jonathan Hodge)
*"3some" - Various authors

2000

*"Much Ado About Nothing" - Shakespeare (dir. Aaron Boyce)
*"The Crucible" - Arthur Miller (dir. Natasha Gunn)
*"That Improv Show" - Improvised
*"Suite" - Various authors

1999

*"A Midsummer Night's Dream" - Shakespeare (dir. Melanie Camp & Scott Koorey)
*"Lovelock's Dream Run" - David Geary (dir. Louisa James)
*"Carthaginians" - Frank McGuinness (dir. Melanie Camp)

1998

*"Ophelia Thinks Harder" - Jean Betts and William Shakespeare (dir. Melanie Camp)
*"Daughters of Heaven" - Michelanne Forster (dir. Louisa James & Stephen Brinkhurst)
*"The Hangman" - Joseph Musaphia (dir. Natasha Gunn)

1997

*"Casina, or, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Wedding" - Plautus (dir. Kirk Moore)
*"The Comedy of Errors" - Shakespeare (dir. Kate Hindin)
*"The Paper Creche" - Chris Girdler (dir. Chris Girdler)
*"An Inspector Calls" - J. B. Priestley (dir. Kate Coleman)

1996

*"Seedgrown" - Sarah Axcel
*"High on Play" - Chris Girdler (dir. Chris Girdler)
*"Antigone" - Sophocles (dir. Lucette Hindin)
*"An Echo of My Trance" - Simon Gibson

1995

*"Badjelly the Witch" - Spike Milligan (dir. Lucette Hindin & Andrew Johnson)
*"Ngaio's Will" - Various authors (dir. various)

1994

*"Shakespeare Who?" - Shakespeare excerpts
*"Ectopia" - Sarah Axcell
*"Road" - Jim Cartwright (dir Chris Boje)

1993

*"Lysistrata" - Aristophanes

1990–1991

*"Unknown" (Society in recess 1991)

1989

* "Still Life" by Emily Mann, dir Mark Mullen
* "The Good Person of Szechwan" by Bertolt Brecht trans. John Willett, dir June Harvest.
* "Huis Clos" by Jean Paul Satre (dir. J. Edward Davis)
* "Playlunch" series, including:
** "Futurian! About Klebnikhov" (devised and dir. Bea Cheer)
** "Play School" (devised and dir. Steven Arnold)
** "The Audition" (written and dir. Kirstyn Peterson).
** "Henry X part VIII" by Michael Green (dir. Michael Dickison).
** "Blood of the Lamb" (excerpts) by Bruce Mason (dir. Steven Arnold).
** "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" by David Mamet (dir. Matt Gould).
** "Line", by Israel Horowitz (dir. Caroline Stacey).
** "Quintana" by Blair French (dir. Mark Mullen).
* "The Trojan Women", by Euripides, trans and dir. Robin Bond. (co-production with University drama dept.)

1988

* "Out of the Flying Pan" and "Mutatis Mutandis" by David Campton. (Dir. Michael Dickison) State Trinity Theatre.
* "As You Like It" by William Shakespeare, dir. Robin Bond
* "Playlunch" series, including:
** "The Pedagogue" by James Saunders (dir. Michael Dickison).
** "Night Bird" by Claire Corridan. dir Matt Gould.
** "A Kind of Alaska" by Harold Pinter (dir. DRAM301 students)
** "Out of the Flying Pan" by David Campton. Dir Michael Dickison.
** "Extr-Act" (devised by Steven Arnold)
** "All's Well That Ends As You Like It" by Michael Green (dir N. Bruce Richards).
** "Play" by Samuel Beckett (dir. Tonia Novitz)
** "Venus Going South" by Blair French. dir Mark Mullen.
* "The Tragedy of King Real" by Adrian Mitchell and "The Brides" by Harry Kondoleon (double bill) dir. Caroline Stacey.

1987

*"Icarus's Mother" - Sam Shepard (dir. Mark Mullen) and "French Fries" (written and directed by Jackie Owens).
*"The Crucible" - Arthur Miller (dir. Tom Joel).
*"Gruzzlefummit" - Craig Thaine and "The Nobodies from Nowhere" (dir. Tony Lee).

1986

*"Ex-Miss Copper Queen On A Set Of Pills" - Megan Terry (dir. Sharon Matthews).
*"The Tragedy of Hamlet" - William Shakespeare and others. (dir. Sharon Matthews).
*"Batpoem" by Louise Johns (dir. Alistair Swale).
*"An Exceedingly Popular Play" - Rachel McAlpine (dir. Sam Beveridge).

1985

*"Gruzzlefummit" (dir Philip Simpson)
*"Lines to M" by Warren Dibble (dir. Sharon Matthews)
*"A Fragment:Benediction" by Kate Winstanley.
*"Concertina Guesthouse" (radio play) by Peter Dowling (dir. Brett Aldridge)
*"The Last Time Revue" (devised work) dir. Nick Kearney
*"Setting the Table" by Renee and "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes (double bill) dir. Elody Rathgen.
*"Krapp's Last Tape" - Samuel Beckett, "Lament for Three Women" - Karen Malpede, "Off & On" - Peter Dowling. (triple Bill).

1984

* "Dogg's Hamlet" by Tom Stoppard (dir. Elizabeth o'Connor).
* "The Same Old Story" by Dario Fo and Franca Rame (dir. Judd Millner).
* One-Act play festival, featuring
** "Leonardo's Last Supper" by Peter Barnes (dir. Nick Kearney).
** "The Dumb Waiter" by Harold Pinter (dir. Tim Ellis).
** "Vampire" by Snoo Wilson (dir. Jo Malcolm/ Bryan Aitken).
* "Salve Regina" by Edward Bowman (dir. Judd Millner).
* "A Dream Play" by August Strindberg (for Radio) - dir. Brett Aldridge.
* "Conversations With a Golliwog" by Alexander Guyan (dir. Tim Fraser) [As a result of protest action, the word "golliwog" was removed from the title advertised for the season. ]
* "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" by Bertold Brecht (dir. Barry Empson).

1983

* "It's Only Natural" by Callum Hantler and Mark di Somma (musical)
* "Now We Are Six" by A.A. Milne (dir. Kim Marshall)
* "No Orchids for Miss Blandish" by Robert David McDonald (dir. Stuart Devenie)

1970–1982

*"Unknown"

1969

*"A Midsummer Night's Dream" - Shakespeare, dir. Ngaio Marsh.Grevers, R: "List of Productions": University of Canterbury Drama Society Archives Collection, Macmillan Brown Library, Christchurch.]
*"After the Rain" - John Griffith Bowen
*"Marat/Sade" - Peter Weiss, dir Mervyn Thompson

1967

*"Twelfth Night" - Shakespeare, dir Ngaio Marsh (first production in Ngaio Marsh Theatre).

1964

*"Julius Caesar" - Shakespeare, dir Ngaio Marsh - Civic Theatre, Christchurch.

1963

*Henry IV, Part 1 - Shakespeare

1962

*"Macbeth" - Shakespeare

1959

*"Antony and Cleopatra" - Shakespeare

1958

*"Hamlet" - Shakespeare

1957

*"Henry V" - Shakespeare

1956

*"King Lear" - Shakespeare

1953

*"Julius Caesar" - Shakespeare

1952

*"Mr Twemlow is not Himself" - Philip JohnsonStrange, Glyn: "The Little Theatre, golden years of the New Zealand stage", Clerestory Press, 2001. ISBN 0958370699]

1951

*"The Rose without a Thorn" - Clifforn Bax
*"Kate Kennedy" - Gordon Bottomly

1950

*"The Old Man of the Mountains" - Norman Nicholson
*"The Taming of the Shrew" - Shakespeare

1949

*"Doctor Faustus" - Christopher Marlowe
*"Bottom's Dream" - Bob Gormack
*"The Corridors of the Soul" - Nikolai Evreinov
*"Salomé" - Oscar Wilde
*"Everyman" - "anonymous"
*"A Phoenix Too Frequent" - Christopher Fry
*"Huis Clos ("No Exit") - Jean-Paul Sartre

Australian Tour

Performed at the Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Albert Hall, Canberra, and Union Theatre, Melbourne University
*"Othello" - Shakespeare (dir. Ngaio Marsh)
*"Six Characters in Search of an Author" - Luigi Pirandello (Dir. Ngaio Marsh)

1948

*"The Axe" - Allen Curnow
*"The Flies" - Jean-Paul Sartre

1947

*"The Interior" - Maurice Maeterlinck
*"The Little Man" - John Galsworthy
*"Saul" - Alexander Lernet-Holenia
*"Great Catherine" - George Bernard Shaw
*"A Change for the Worse" - James Bridie
*"Riders to the Sea" - J. M. Synge
*"The Way of the World" - William Congreve

1946

*"What They Say?" - James Bridie
*"Macbeth" - Shakespeare (toured to Auckland & Wellington)
*"The Land of Heart's Desire" - W.B. Yeats
*"The Axe" (reading) - Allen Curnow

1945

*"Hamlet" - Shakespeare (toured to Wellington and Auckland)
*"Othello" - Shakespeare (toured to Wellington and Auckland)
*"The Stepmother" - Arnold Bennett (triple bill with the following two plays)
**"The Proposal" - Anton Chekov
**"Symphony in Illusion" - J. Wallace Bell
*"A Midsummer Night's Dream" - Shakespeare
*"Henry V" - Shakespeare

1944

*"Hamlet" - Shakespeare (toured to Dunedin)
*"Othello" - Shakespeare (toured to Dunedin)

1943

*"Golden Boy" - Clifford Odets
*"Mirror to Elizabeth" - T. C. Morris
*"Ceeso" - Lord Dunsany
*"The Flaw" - Cyril Roberts
*"Fumed Oak" - Noël Coward
*"Where's That Bomb?" - "Two London Busdrivers"
*"Sanseneise Impromptu" - Bob Gormack
*"Clay" - Eric Bradwell

1942

*"Old Moore's Almanac" - John Pearman
*"Trifles" - Susan Glaspell
*"The Bathroom Tap" - Colin Byrd
*"The Waxen Man" - Mary Reynolds
*"The Importance of Being Earnest" - Oscar Wilde

1941

*"Hands Across the Sea" - Noel Coward
*"World Without Men" - Philip Johnson
*"The Mask" - H. M. Harwood and F. Tennyson Jesse
*"The Bear" - Anton Chekov
*"Libel" - Edward Wooll
*"Outward Bound" - Sutton Vane
*"Unto such Glory" - Paul Green

1940

*"Ali the Cobbler" - Martin Shepherd
*"Veiled Menace" - Ella Adkins
*"Fancy Free" - Stanley Houghton
*"Denouement" - Leonard J. Hines
*"Two Gentlemen of Soho" - A. P. Hebert
*"Quality Street" - J. M. Barrie
*"The Man in Half-Moon Street" - Barre Lyndon
*"The Dear Departed" - Stanley Houghton
*"Anti-clocwise" - Muriel & Sydney Box
*"The Stepmother" - Arnold Bennett
*"The Young Idea" - Noel Coward

1939

*"Paradise Enow" - James Bridie
*"Official Announcement" - Eleanor Elder
*"Punch and Go" - John Galsworthy
*"Suppressed Desires" - Susan Glaspell
*"X=O" - John Drinkwater
*"Sunday Costs Five Pesos" - Josephina Niggli
*"A Well Remembered Voice" - J. M. Barrie

1938

*"The Lady from the Sea" - Henrik Ibsen

1937

*"A Marriage Proposal" - Anton Chekov
*"Dangerous Corner" - J. B. Priestley
*"Hay Fever" - Noel Coward
*"Half an Hour" - J. M. Barrie
*"Duet in Floodlight" - J. B. Priestley
*"For Services Rendered" - Somerset Maugham
*"Moonshine" - Arthur Hopkins
*"The Crystal" - Thomas Turner
*"The Mask" - H. M. Harwood and F. Tennyson Jesse
*"Weatherwise" - Noel Coward
*"Masses and Man" - Ernst Toller

1936

*"Arms and the Man" - G. B. Shaw
*"Night Must Fall" - Emlyn Williams
*"Cupboard Love" - Eliot Crawshay Williams
*"Old Moore's Almanac" - John Pearmain
*"The Glittering Gate" - Lord Dunsany
*"I Gioconda" - Patricia Saunders
*"Witch's Brew" - Dorothy Macardle
*"Easter Evening" - Edward & Theodosia Thompson
*"The Warrior's Husband" - Julian Thompson
*"Augustus in Search of a Father" - Harold Chapin
*"Twentieth Century Lullaby" - Cedric Mount
*"Macbeth" - Shakespeare
*"The Bear" - Chekov
*"Love in the Ape House" - F. Sladen Smith

1935

*"Murder Trial" - Sydney Box
*"Villa for Sale" - Sacha Guitry
*"X=O" - John Drinkwater
*"Ariadne or 'Business First'" - A.A. Milne
*"Catherine Parr" - Maurice Baring
*"The Hordle Poacher" - Bernard Gilbert
*"A Farewell Supper" - Arthur Schnitzler
*"There's Always Juliet" - John Van Druten
*"Spinsters of Lushe"
*"Trifles" - Susan Glaspell
*"Relief Workers" - Dorothy Maginess
*"Get Out of Your Cage" - Mary Plowman
*"E & OE" - eliot Crawshay Williams
*"When the Whirlwind Blows" - Essex Dane
*"The Small Hour" - Barrington Gates
*"Women at War" - Edward Percy
*"Symphony in illusion" - James Wallace Bell
*"Twelfth Night" - Shakespeare
*"Suppressed Desires" - Susan Glaspell
*"The Sister's Tragedy" - Richard Hughes
*"Exit Sir Derek" - Henrey Jellet & Ngaio Marsh

1934

*"The Happy Journey to Trenton & Camden" - Thornton Wilder
*"Becky Sharp" - Olive Conway
*"Episode (from Anatol)" - Arthur Schnitzler

1933

*"The Stoker" - Harold Brighouse
*"The Constant Lover" - St John Hankin
*"Such Things Only Happen in Books" - Thornton Wilder
*"Godstowe Nunnery" - Laurence Binyon
*"A Marriage Has Been Arranged" - Alfred Sutro
*"Eldorado" - Bernard Gilbert
*"Reunion" - John Deane
*"Post Mortem" - unknown

1932

*"Riders to the Sea" - J. M. Synge
*"The Sun" - John Galsworthy
*"Wind o' the Moors" - L. du Garde Peach
*"Fame and the Poet" - Lord Dunsany
*"Pierrot in Hospital" - Gilbert Cannan
*"Relief Workers" - Dorothy Maginness
*"Hanrahan's Oath" - Lady Gregory
*"The Maker of Dreams" - Oliphant Down
*"The Loevly Miracle" - Philip Johnson
*"Michael" - Miles Malleson
*"The Shadow of the Glen" - J. M. Synge
*"Legend" - Philip Johnson
*"Cloudbreak" - A. O. Roberts
*"Pan in Pimlico" - Helen Simpson
*"X=O" - John Drinkwater
*"Suppressed Desires" - Susan Glaspell
*"The Storm" - John Drinkwater
*"The Matter of Husbands" - Ferenc Molnar
*"In the Park" - Gilbert Cannan
*"The Spartan Girl" - A. J. Talbot

1930

*"Woman's Honour" - Susan Glaspell
*"Hallmarked" - John Galsworthy
*"Lonesome-Like" - Harold Brighouse
*"For Love of Appin" - Alan Mulgan
*"The Man on the Kerb" - Alfred Sutro
*"The House With the Twisty Windows" - Mary Pakington

1929

*"The Twelve Pound Look" - J. M. Barrie
*"The Man in the Bowler Hat" - A. A. Milne
*"The Philosopher of Butterbiggins" - Harold Chapin
*"The Locked Chest" - John Masefield
*"A Night at an Inn" - Lord Dunsany
*"The Sister's Tragedy" - Richard Hughes

1928

*"The Queen of Cornwall" - Thomas Hardy

1927

*"The Devil's Disciple" - G.B.Shaw
*"Good Friday" - John Masefield
*"The Cat and the Cherub" - C.B. Fernald

1926

*"The Devil's Disciple" - G.B. Shaw (toured to Rangiora, Ashburton and Timaru)

1923

*"The Man of Destiny" - G.B. Shaw
*"The Maker of Dreams" - Oliphant Down

1922

*"The Man of Destiny" - G.B. Shaw

1921

*"The Two Mr Wetherbys" - St John Hankin (dir. James Shelley)- the first play of The Canterbury College Drama Society

External links

* [http://www.dramasoc.org University of Canterbury Drama Society] Official site
* [http://www.musoc.org.nz University of Canterbury Musical Theatre Society] A sister society that grew out of Dramasoc, and specialises in musical theatre
* [http://www.ucsa.org.nz University of Canterbury Students Association] The organisational parent and physical home of the performing arts clubs on campus

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