
PAST PRODUCTIONS
Since 1961 Burnt Ash Drama Association has presented a varied and exciting programme of productions ranging from drama to comedy, musical to farce stopping at one-act plays, reviews and original works.
1961 “Quiet Weekend” by Esther McCracken
1961 “Price Of fame” by Wilfred Massey
1962 “Make It Murder” by Jack Last
1962 “The Reluctant Debutante” by William Douglas-Home
1964 “Little Lambs Eat Ivy” by Noel Langley
1964 “Friends And Neighbours” by Austin Steele
1965 “The Chiltern Hundreds” by William Douglas-Home
1966 “The Sound Of Murder” by William Fairchild
1966 “Semi-Detached” by David Turner
1967 “The Private Ear and The Public Eye” by Peter Shaffer
1967 “The Happiest Days Of Your Life” by John Dighton
1968 “Out Of The Crocodile” by Giles Cooper
1968 “Pink String And Sealing Wax” by Roland Pertwee
1969 “We Must Kill Toni” by Ian Stuart Black
1969 “The Big Killing” by Philip Mackie
1970 “Hay Fever” by Noel Coward. (Joint production with Whitfield Players)
1970 “On Monday Next” by Philip King
1971 “The Winslow Boy” by Terence Rattigan
1971 “Someone Waiting” by Emlyn Williams
1972 “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller
1972 “Everything In The Garden” by Giles Cooper
1973 “A Man For All Seasons” by Robert Bolt
1973 “The Real Inspector Hound” by Tom Stoppard and “Miss Julie” by August Strindberg
1974 “Night Must Fall” by Emlyn Williams
1974 “Ring Round the Moon” by Jean Anouilh adapted by Christopher Fry.
1975 “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams.
1975 “Plaza Suite” by Neil Simon
1975 “Blithe Spirit” by Noel Coward
1976 “Crime On Goat Island” by Ugo Betti
1976 “The Odd Couple” by Neil Simon
1976 “Separate Tables” by Terence Rattigan
1977 “Time And Time Again” by Alan Ayckbourn
1977 “Waltz of the Toreadors” by Jean Anouilh adapted by Lucienne Hill
1977 “The Roses Of Eyam” by Don Taylor
1978 “Dark Of The Moon” by Howard Richardson and William Berney
1978 “She Stoops to Conquer” by Oliver Goldsmith
1978 “Round And Round The Garden” by Alan Ayckbourn
1979 “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare
1979 “Absent Friends” by Alan Ayckbourn
1979 “The Curious Savage” by John Patrick
1980 “Ghosts” by Henrik Ibsen.
1980 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare
1980 “The Importance Of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde.
1981 “Just Between Ourselves” by Alan Ayckbourn
1981 “The Long And The Short And The Tall” by Willis Hall
1981 “Outside Edge” by Richard Harris
1982 “Hedda Gabler” by Henrik Ibsen
1982 “A View From The Bridge” by Arthur Miller.
1982 “The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie” by Jay Presson Allan adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark
1983 “Enter A Free Man” by Tom Stoppard
1983 “London Assurance” by Dion Boucicault
1983 “Sisterly Feelings” by Alan Ayckbourn
1984 “The Dresser” by Ronald Harwood
1984 “The Gingerbread Lady” by Neil Simon
1984 “On The Razzle” by Tom Stoppard (Joint production with Whitfield Players)
1985 “Whose Life is it Anyway” by Brian Clark
1985 “On The Razzle” by Tom Stoppard
1985 “The Poker Session” by Hugh Leonard
1986 “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” by Constance Cox
1986 “Abigail’s Party” by Mike Leigh
1986 “The Family Dance” by Felicity Browne
1987 “Pack Of Lies” by Hugh Whitemore
1987 “The King’s Mare” by Jean Canolle
1987 “Billy Liar” by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hill
1988 “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams
1988 “Outside Edge” by Richard Harris
1988 “A Month Of Sundays” by Bob Larbey
1989 “Quatermaine’s Terms” by Simon Gray
1989 “Thieves Carnival” by Jean Anouilh
1989 “Oh What A Lovely War” by Joan Littlewood (Joint Production with Whitfield Players)
1990 “The Ghost Train” by Arnold Ridley
1990 “Veronica’s Room” by Ira Levin
1990 “Season’s Greetings” by Alan Ayckbourn
1991 “Journey’s End” by R.C. Sherriff.
1991 “Molly” by Simon Gray
1991 “The Bed Before Yesterday” by Ben Travers
1992 “The Great Coarse Acting Show” by Michael Green
1992 “Whose Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee
1992 “A Man For All Seasons” by Robert Bolt
1993 “Habeas Corpus” by Alan Bennett
1993 “The Killing Of Sister George” by Frank Marcus
1993 “Ten Times Table” by Alan Ayckbourn
1994 “Hobson’s Choice” by Harold Brighouse
1994 “Gaslight” by Patrick Hamilton
1994 “On The Razzle” by Tom Stoppard
1995 “Tons Of Money” by Will Evans and Valentine, adapted by Alan Ayckbourn
1995 “The Three Sisters” by Anton Checkov
1995 “The Second Great Coarse Acting Show” by Michael Green
1996 “Table Manners” by Alan Ayckbourn
1996 “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen.
1996 “The Country Wife” by William Wycherley
1997 “The Cherry Orchard” by Anton Chekhov
1997 “Deathtrap” by Ira Levin.
1997 “How The Other Half Loves” by Alan Ayckbourn
1998 “Loot” by Joe Orton
1998 “The Night Of The Iguana” by Tennessee Williams
1998 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare
1998 “Murder On The Nile” by Agatha Christie
1999 “Dancing At Lughnasa” by Brian Friel
1999 “See How They Run” by Philip King
2000 “The Sisters Rosensweig” by Wendy Wasserstein
2000 “The Browning Version” by Terrence Rattigan
2000 “Dancing At Lughnasa” by Brian Friel
2001 “Food For Thought” a fundraiser
2001 “Tom And Clem” by Stephen Churchett
2001 “It Could Be Any One Of Us” by Alan Ayckbourn
2002 “The Playboy Of The Western World” by J. M. Synge
2002 “Relative Values” by Noel Coward
2002 “On The Razzle” by Tom Stoppard
2003 “One Act Double Bill – Red Peppers And The Proposal” by Noel Coward and Anton Checkov
2003 “Dona Rosita The Spinster” by Federico Garcia Lorca translated by Gwynne Edwards
2003 “Supper Theatre - After Magritte” by Tom Stoppard
2003 “The Wind In The Willows” by Kenneth Grahame, adapted by Alan Bennett, Music by Jeremy Sams
2004 “Confusions” by Alan Ayckbourn
2004 “Uncle Vanya” by Anton Chekhov adapted by Brian Friel
2004 “Hard Times” by Stephen Jeffreys from the novel by Charles Dickens
2004 “Love To Keep Us Warm At Christmas” – a seasonal fundraiser
2005 “Our Country’s Good” by Timberlake Wertenbaker
2005 “Tom Jones” by Joan Macalpine from Henry Fielding’s novel
2005 “Christmas Extravaganza And Christmas Magic”
2006 “We’ll Eat Again – A Naafi Knees-Up” – a fundraiser
2006 “The American Clock” by Arthur Miller
2006 “A Month In The Country” by Brien Friel after Turgenev
2006 “A Time To Die!” – a murder/mystery fund raiser
2006 “Jack The Ripper” by Ron Pember and Denis de Marne
2007 “Valentine’s Masked Ball” – a fundraiser
2007 “Dark Of The Moon” by Howard Richardson and William Berney
2007 “When We Are Married” by J B Priestley
2007 “Twelfth Night” by William Shakespeare
2008 “David Copperfield” by Ian Mullins from the novel by Charles Dickens
2008 “Ladies In Retirement” by Edward Percy and Reginald Denham
2008 “Nicholas Nickleby Part One” by David Edgar from the novel by Charles Dickens
2008 “Christmas Quiz Night” – fundraiser
2009 “Bedroom Farce” by Alan Ayckbourn.
2009 “Melodies And Memories” – A fundraising evening with Diane Todd
2009 “The Government Inspector” by Nikolai Gogol
2009 “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw
2010 ”Don’t Dress For Dinner” by Marc Camoletti adapted by Robin Hawdon
2010 “The Grapes Of Wrath” by John Steinbeck, adapted by Tim Baker
2010 “Alphabetical Order” by Michael Frayn
2010 “Crackers At Christmas” – a seasonal fundraiser
2011 “Absurd Person Singular” by Alan Ayckbourn
2011 “The Diary Of Anne Frank” by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
2011 “A Christmas Carol” by Stephen Sharkey from the novel by Charles Dickens
2012 “Crime On Goat Island” by Ugo Betti
2012 “Treasure Island” by John Lloyd after Robert Louis Stevenson
2013 “Hard Times” by Stephen Jeffreys from the novel by Charles Dickens.
2013 The Bluebell Line War Weekend Show
2014 “David Copperfield Part One” by Phyllis Thomas
2014 The Bluebell Line War Weekend Show
2015 The Bluebell Line War Weekend Show
2015 “Jack The Ripper” by Ron Pember and Denis de Marne
2015 “Cinderella” by David Evans.
2016 “On The Razzle” by Tom Stoppard
2016 “Pack Of Lies” by Hugh Whitemore
2017 “Tom, Dick And Harry” by Michael and Ray Cooney
2017 “The Accrington Pals” by Peter Whelan
2017 “Flare Path” by Terence Rattigan
2018 “It Runs In The Family” by Ray Cooney
2018 “My Boy Jack” by David Haig
2018 “Time And Time Again” by Alan Ayckbourn
2019 “Aladdin” by David Evans
2019 “Blithe Spirit” by Noel Coward
2019 “The 39 Steps” adapted by Patrick Barlow
2020 “Steel Magnolias” by Robert Harling
2021 “Peter Pan” by David Evans
2022 “Snake In The Grass” by Alan Ayckbourn
2022 “Entertaining Angels” by Richard Everett
2023 “Plaza Suite” by Neil Simon
2023 “Dick Whittington” by David Evans
2024 "Picnic at Hanging Rock" by Tom Wright from the novel by Joan Lindsay
2024 "Birthday Club" by Phil Olson
2025 "Taking Sides" by Ronald Harwood



