Year

Production

Author

Director

2026

Black Comedy

Peter Shaffer

Pip Rolls

2025

Enchanted April

Matthew Barber

Bernie Kimble

Murder at the Fête

Pip Rolls

Pip Rolls

The Actress

Peter Quilter

Debbie Nichols

2024

Last Tango in Little Grimley/Lockdown in Little Grimley

David Tristram

Bernie Kemble

From Here to the Library

Jimmie Chinn

Anne Henderson  (rehearsed reading)

Alfred the Great/The Spanish Armanda

Pip Rolls

Pip Rolls (rehearsed reading)

The Nightingales

Peter Quilter

Lesley Crowther-Smith

2023

Molly’s Calling

Pip Rolls

Pip Rolls

Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders

Derek Webb

Lesley Crowther-Smith

2022

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens/Pip Rolls

Pip Rolls (rehearsed reading)

Under Milkwood

Dylan Thomas/Pip Rolls

Pip Rolls (rehearsed reading)

Playgoers

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading)

What Really Happened

Pip Rolls

Pip Rolls (rehearsed reading)

2020-2021
Platinum

Break due to Covid

2019

Good Things

Liz Lockhead

Debbie Nichols

The Music Lovers

Reggie Oliver after Georges Feydeau

Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading)

Curtain up on Murder

Bettine Manktelow

Gill Gibbins

2018

Ladies Who Lunch

Tudor Gates

Gill Lucas

Dear Diva

Jan Harris

Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading)

Vintage Hitchcock – A Live Radio Play

Joe Landry

Lars Sawyer

2017

Waiting for the Train

Pip Rolls

Pip Rolls

I Spy

John Mortimer

Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading)

A Touch of Danger

Francis Durbridge

Debbie Nichols

2016

Over my Dead Body

Derek Benfield

Debbie Nichols

Mother Figure and Between Mouthfuls

Alan Ayckbourn

Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading)

Bedroom Farce

Alan Ayckbourn

Sharon Laws

2015

Teahouse of the August Moon

John Patrick

Gill Lucas

Knightsbridge

John Mortimer

Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading)

Murder in Play

Simon Brett

Lesley Crowther-Smith

2014

Our Man in Havana

Clive Francis

Gill Lucas

Pastiche

Nick Hall

Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading)

Yes, Prime Minister

Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn

David Wilson

2013

Semi-Detached

David Turner

Gill Lucas

A Provincial Lady

Ivan Turgenev

Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading)

Take Away The Lady

Jimmie Chinn

Gill Lucas

2012

Rumours

Neil Simon

Lesley Parker

Relative Values

Noel Coward

Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading)

Dangerous Corner

J. B. Priestley

Gill Gibbins

2011

The Drunkard with The Heath Players

Brian J. Burton

Margaret Hunter

An Inspector Calls

J.B. Priestley

Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading)

The Titfield Thunderbolt

Philip Goulding

Gill Lucas

2010

Diamond

Come on, Jeeves

P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton

Gill Gibbins

Say Who You Are

Keith Waterhouse

Margret Hunter (rehearsed reading)

The Weekend

Michael Palin

Wendy Phillips

2009

Ghost Train

Arnold Ridley

Yaz Leighton

2008

Vanity Fair

Constance Cox

Gill Lucas

The Scottish Play

Graham Holiday

Wendy Phillips

2007

Racing Demon

David Hare

Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading)

Out of Order

Ray Cooney

Gill Lucas

2006

Toad of Toad Hall
with The Heath Players

A.A. Milne

Margaret Hunter

The Casting Couch

Sue Bradshaw and Wendy Phillips

Sue Bradshaw

Last Tango in Walton on the Hill

David Tristram

Wendy Phillips

2005

The Unvarnished Truth

Royce Ryton

Margaret Hunter

The Railway Children

E. Nesbitt

Wendy Phillips

2004

Daisy Pulls It Off

Denise Deegan

Gill Lucas

Situation Comedy

John Mortimer and Brian Cooke

Shelagh Bliss

2003

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

Margaret Hunter

Local Affairs

Richard Harris

Gill Lucas

2002

The Junipere Affair

Pip Rolls

Pip Rolls

The Hollow

Agatha Christie

Gill Padbury

2001

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

Margaret Hunter

I Remember Mama

John van Druten

Gill Lucas

2000

Gold

Dear Octopus

Dodie Smith

Margaret Hunter

Ladies Who Lunch

Tudor Gates

Gill Lucas

1999

Close to the Wind

Richard Everett

Shelagh Bliss

Tiptoe Through the Tombstones

Norman Robbins

Gill Lucas

1998

Habeus Corpus

Alan Bennett

Gill Lucas

Clerical Errors

Georgina Reid

Gill Lucas

1997

Death and the Maiden

Georgina Reid

Jean Smith

Second from Last in the Sack Race

Michael Birch

Gill Lucas

1996

The Slipper and the Rose with The Heath Players

Adapted by Pip Burley

Margaret Hunter

Murder for the Asking

Derek Benfield

Gill Lucas

1995

White Sheep of the Family

L. du Garde Peach

Jean Smith

The Café Betchworth Festival entry

Neville Watchurst

Gill Lucas

1994

The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov

Steve Trasler

1993

When The Cat’s Away

John Mortimer and Brian Cooke

Sylvia Currie

The Creature Creeps

Jack Sharkey

Marq English

1992

Teahouse of the August Moon

John Patrick

Gill Lucas

1991

Dangerous Obsession

N. J. Crisp

Andrew Cottingham

An Engagement with Coward

Noel Coward

Jean Smith

Come into the Garden, Maud Betchworth Festival entry – best supporting actor: Robin Hunter

Noel Coward

Jean Smith

1990

Ruby

Hunchback of Notre Dame

Ken Hill

Margaret Hunter

At the Changing of the Year

Malcolm Young

Dave Baker

A Respectable Funeral

Betchworth Festival entry

Jimmie Chinn

Dave Baker

1989

Nightmare

Norman Robbins

Jean Smith

A Chorus of Disapproval

Alan Ayckbourn

Gill Lucas

Epitaph for a Hard Man

Evelyn Hood

Gill Lucas

1988

The Odd Couple

Neil Simon

Andrew Cottingham

Pack of Lies

Hugh Whitemore

Les Schroeder

One Plus One Makes Three

Betchworth Festival entry

Peter Colum

Gill Lucas

1987

Outside Edge

Richard Harris

Jean Smith

The Diary of Anne Frank

Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

Steve Peacock

1986

Sweeney Todd

Brian J. Burton

Gill Lucas

Bedroom Farce

Alan Ayckbourn

Les Schroeder

1985

Trelawny of the Wells

Arthur Pinero

Margaret Hunter

Bye Bye Blues

Betchworth Festival entry

James Saunders

Les Schroeder

1984

Ring Round the Moon

Jean Anouilh

Gill Lucas

Post Horn Gallop

Tony Benfield

Tony Burch

Random Moments in a May Garden

Betchworth Festival entry

James Saunders

Les Schroeder

1983

The Beaux’ Strategem

George Farquhar

Margaret Hunter

Habeus Corpus

Alan Bennett

Gill Lucas

The Mayor of Torontal

Betchworth Festival entry

Gweneth Jones

Doreen Perry

1982

Dracula

Ken Hill

Margaret Hunter

A Murder Has Been Arranged

Emlyn Williams

Jean Smith

1981

Lock Up Your Daughters

Henry Fielding

Gill Lucas

Confusions

Alan Ayckbourn

Gill Lucas

Gosforth’s Fete

Betchworth Festival entry

Alan Ayckbourn

Gill Lucas

1980

The Curse of the Werewolf

Ken Hill

Margaret Hunter

A Kind of Justice

Betchworth Festival entry

Margaret Wood

Gill Lucas

Sunday Costs Five Pesos

Josefina Niggli

Gill Lucas

The Red Velvet Goat

Josefina Niggli

Jean Smith

1979

For Better, For Worse

Arthur Watkyn

Robin Easther

The Man Most Likely To

Joyce Rayburn

Jean Smith

The Orchestra

Betchworth Festival entry

Jean Anouilh

Gill Lucas

1978

Dear Charles

Alan Melville

Margaret Hunter

A Phoenix Too Frequent

Christopher Fry

Gill Lucas

The Pool by the Dragon Gate

Stage Cup

E. M. Andrews

Margaret Hunter

1977

Vivat! Vivat, Regina!

Robert Bolt

Su Johnson

Night Watch

Lucille Fletcher

Gill Lucas

1976

Lumken Bunkum

Peter Bensted

Peter Bensted

Black Comedy

Peter Shaffer

Pat Curtis

Cabaret

Christopher Isherwood

Pat Curtis

1975

Silver

How the Other Half Loves

Alan Ayckbourn

Geoffrey Curtis

Candlelight – a revue

–

Pat Curtis

1974

An Inspector Calls

J. B. Priestley

Geoffrey Wright

What Shall We Tell Caroline?

John Mortimer

Pat Curtis

Gladly Otherwise

N. F. Simpson

Pat Curtis

Knightsbridge

John Mortimer

Pat Curtis

1973

The Rape of the Belt

Benn Levy

Sheila Poole

The Happy Marriage

John Clements

Sheila Poole

1972

Our Town

Thornton Wilder

Pat Curtis

1971

Passion, Poison and Petrification

Betchworth Festival entry

George Bernard Shaw

Christopher Evans

Lady Audley’s Secret

G. Hazelwood

Christopher Evans

Eighty in the Shade

Clemence Dane

Margaret Hunter

The Proposal

Betchworth Festival entry

Anton Chekhov

Geoffrey Wright

1970

The Real Inspector Hound

Tom Stoppard

Christopher Evans

April Dawn

Phillip Johnson

Marion Darby

Boeing Boeing

Marc Camelotti

Ivor Buckley

1969

The Irregular Verb ‘to love’

Hugh and Margaret Williams

Sheila Poole

Flowering Cherry

Robert Bolt

Geoffrey Wright

1968

Private Ear

Peter Shaffer

Sheila Poole

Public Eye

Betchworth Festival entry

Peter Shaffer

Dorothy Howard

1967

Hay Fever

Noel Coward

Dorothy Howard

She Stoops to Conquer

Oliver Goldsmith

Vera Sweet

1966

The Pigeon with the Silver Foot

Betchworth Festival entry

Pam H. Johnson and C. P. Shaw

Vera Sweet

1965

The Heiress

Ruth and Augustus Goetz

Dorothy Rae

1964

The Rats

Betchworth Festival entry

Agatha Christie

Vera Sweet

1963

The Chalk Garden

Enid Bagnold

Mabel Alexander

Dock Brief

John Mortimer

Mary Butler

April Dawn

Philip Johnson

Christopher Evans

The Late Miss Cordell

Philip Johnson

Vera Sweet

The Pen of My Aunt

Betchworth Festival entry

Gordon Daviot

Ivor Buckley

1962

Bell, Book and Candle

John van Druten

Mabel Alxander

Quiet Weekend

Esther McCracken

Mabel Alxander

The Neighbours

Betchworth Festival entry

Yves Cabrol

Dorothy Rae

1961

The Curious Savage

John Patrick

Dorothy Rae

Mother Goose

Dorothy Rae

Dorothy Rae

1960

A Murder has been Arranged

Emlyn Williams

Cyril Sawyer

Breath of Spring

Peter Cook

Cyril Sawyer

The Farce of the Devil’s Bridge

Betchworth Festival entry

Henri Gheoh

Vera Sweet

1959

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare

Dorothy Rae

Book of the Month

Basil Thomas

Vera Sweet

The Life of Hercules

Stage Cup

Thomas Cruden

Norman Clatworthy

1958

Separate Tables

Terence Rattigan

Norman Clatworthy

The White Sheep of the Family

L. du Garde Peach and Ian Hay

Dorothy Rae and Vivienne Hale

Master Dudley

Phillip Johnson

Vivienne Hale

One Evening at Nero’s

Betchworth Festival entry

A. J. Talbot

Ted Perrett

The Laboratory

Betchworth Festival entry

David Campton

Dorothy Rae

1957

Ring Round the Moon

Jean Anouilh

Vera Sweet

Sganarelle or The Imaginary Cuckold

Betchworth Festival entry

Moliere

Dorothy Rae

1956

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

Dorothy Rae

Tons of Money

Will Evans and Arthur Valentine

Norman Clatworthy

Still Life

Betchworth Festival entry

Noel Coward

Dorothy Rae

An Hour’s Light Entertainment

–

Lilian Tyers

Browne with an ‘E’

Leopold Montague

Vivienne Hale

The Skipper’s Entanglement

F. Morton Howard

Florence Culver

1955

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

Dorothy Rae

Love’s a Luxury

Guy Paxton and E. V. Hoile

Norman Clatworthy

A Certain Man

Betchworth Festival entry

Leslie Walker

Dorothy Rae

1954

The Paragon

Roland and Michael Pertwee

David Clatworthy

The Barton Mystery

Walton Hacker

Margaret Smith

Barbara’s Wedding

Betchworth Festival entry

J. M. Barrie

Dorothy Rae

1953

Little Lambs Eat Ivy

Noel Langley

Dorothy Rae

Murder at the Vicarage

Agatha Christie

Ivor Buckley

G. I. Bride

Betchworth Festival entry

Rae Varran

Dorothy Rae

1952

Queen Elizabeth Slept Here

Talbot Rothwell

Dorothy Rae

The Rose and Crown

Betchworth Festival entry

J. B. Priestley

Ivor Buckley

Fumed Oak

Noel Coward

Heather Rae

The Goldfish

Isabel Andrews

Cyril Sawyer

1951

On Monday Next

Phillip King

Dorothy Rae

Love in Idleness

Terence Rattigan

Dorothy Rae

1950

The Chiltern Hundreds

William Douglas Home

Ivor Buckley and Dorothy Rae