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Christmas 1923 – A group of city council employees decide to put on a short play in the Council House Canteen January 31 1924 – Interested council employees meet to discuss the idea of forming a theatre society February 14 1924 – The formation of the Municipal Players is officially announced | |||
DATES | PRODUCTION | AUTHOR | DIRECTOR |
1924 | In Honour Bound / Spreading the News / The Autocrat of the Coffee Stall | Sydney Grundy / Lady Gregory / Harold Chapin | Ernest Sandford / Bladon Peake / Herbert A. Thompson |
The Dear Departed / In The Zone / It’s the Poor that ‘elps the Poor | Stanley Houghton / Eugene O’Neill / Harold Chapin | Ernest Sandford / Herbert A. Thompson / Bladon Peake | |
The Case of Lady Camber | Horace Annesley Vachell | Herbert A. Thompson | |
1925 | Postal Orders / Les Romanesques | Roland Pertwee / Edmond Rostand | Herbert A. Thompson / Bladon Peake |
The Autocrat of the Coffee Stall / Les Romanesques | Harold Chapin / Edmond Rostand | Herbert A. Thompson / Bladon Peake | |
Playgoers / The Monkey’s Paw / The Romantics | Arthur Pinero / W. W. Jacobs and Louis N. Parker / Bladon Peake | Ernest Sandford / Herbert A. Thompson / Bladon Peake | |
The Proposal / The Price of Coal / St. Simeon Stylites | Anton Chekhov / Harold Brighouse / Herbert Sladen-Smith | Leonard Crabtree / M. H. Weston / Maud M. Johnson | |
1926 | Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw | C. Garrett Holden |
The Constant Lover / The Veil | St. John Hankin / Bladon Peake | Ernest Sandford / Bladon Peake | |
Phipps / Candida | Stanley Houghton / George Bernard Shaw | Unknown / Bladon Peake | |
At Mrs Beam’s | C. K. Munro | Leonard Crabtree | |
A Merry Death | Nicholas Evreinov | T. E. Smith | |
1927 | Gallant Cassian / A Merry Death / Thirty Minutes in a Street | Arthur Schnitzler / Nicholas Evreinov / Beatrice Mayor | Dorothy C. Ardagh and Stanley G. Hawes / Bernard Waters / Miss N. G. Cowdy |
The Circle of the Sword / Pity the Blind / Before the Dawn | H. S. Fothergill / Bladon Peake / Norman H. Leaker | Cecil M. Abbott and Miss K. Hughes / Walter V. Roe / Thomas C. Kemp | |
Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | Thomas C. Kemp | |
1928 | The Stepmother / The Far-away Princess / The Poetasters of Ispahan | Arnold Bennett / Hermann Sudermann / Clifford Bax | Leonard Crabtree / S. G. Hawes / Carol R. Levitas |
Not Exactly / The Harvest of Faith | Bernard Waters / Thomas C. Kemp | Bernard Waters / Thomas C. Kemp | |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | William Shakespeare | Thomas C. Kemp | |
1929 | Madame Pepita | G. Martinez Sierra | Bladon Peake |
The Suicides in the Rue Sombre / The Wall | Leonard Merrick, adapated by Norman H. Leaker / Thomas C. Kemp | Norman H. Leaker / Thomas C. Kemp | |
The Dark Lady of Sonnets / The Countess Cathleen | George Bernard Shaw / W. B. Yates | Norman H. Leaker / Bladon Peake |
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