 THE GAGE PLAYERS |
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| AMATEUR DRAMATIC SOCIETY, WALTON ON THE HILL | |||
| Year | Production | Author | Director |
| 1950 | The Chiltern Hundreds | William Douglas Home | Ivor Buckley and Dorothy Rae |
| 1951 | Love in Idleness | Terence Rattigan | Dorothy Rae |
| On Monday Next | Phillip King | Dorothy Rae | |
| 1952 | The Goldfish | Isabel Andrews | Cyril Sawyer |
| Fumed Oak | Noel Coward | Heather Rae | |
| The Rose and Crown | J. B. Priestley | Ivor Buckley | |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| Queen Elizabeth Slept Here | Talbot Rothwell | Dorothy Rae | |
| 1953 | G. I. Bride | Rae Varran | Dorothy Rae |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| Murder at the Vicarage | Agatha Christie | Ivor Buckley | |
| Little Lambs Eat Ivy | Noel Langley | Dorothy Rae | |
| 1954 | Barbara’s Wedding | J. M. Barrie | Dorothy Rae |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| The Barton Mystery | Walton Hacker | Margaret Smith | |
| The Paragon | Roland and Michael Pertwee | David Clatworthy | |
| 1955 | A Certain Man | Leslie Walker | Dorothy Rae |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| Love’s a Luxury | Guy Paxton and E. V. Hoile | Norman Clatworthy | |
| Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw | Dorothy Rae | |
| 1956 | The Skipper’s Entanglement | F. Morton Howard | Florence Culver |
| Browne with an ‘E’ | Leopold Montague | Vivienne Hale | |
| An Hour’s Light Entertainment | – | Lilian Tyers | |
| Still Life | Noel Coward | Dorothy Rae | |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| Tons of Money | Will Evans and Arthur Valentine | Norman Clatworthy | |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | Dorothy Rae | |
| 1957 | Sganarelle or The Imaginary Cuckold | Moliere | Dorothy Rae |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| Ring Round the Moon | Jean Anouilh | Vera Sweet | |
| 1958 | The Laboratory | David Campton | Dorothy Rae |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| One Evening at Nero’s | A. J. Talbot | Ted Perrett | |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| Master Dudley | Phillip Johnson | Vivienne Hale | |
| The White Sheep of the Family | L. du Garde Peach and Ian Hay | Dorothy Rae and Vivienne Hale | |
| Separate Tables | Terence Rattigan | Norman Clatworthy | |
| 1959 | The Life of Hercules | Thomas Cruden | Norman Clatworthy |
| Stage Cup | |||
| Book of the Month | Basil Thomas | Vera Sweet | |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | William Shakespeare | Dorothy Rae | |
| 1960 | The Farce of the Devil’s Bridge | Henri Gheoh | Vera Sweet |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| Breath of Spring | Peter Cook | Cyril Sawyer | |
| A Murder has been Arranged | Emlyn Williams | Cyril Sawyer | |
| 1961 | Mother Goose | Dorothy Rae | Dorothy Rae |
| The Curious Savage | John Patrick | Dorothy Rae | |
| 1962 | The Neighbours | Yves Cabrol | Dorothy Rae |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| 1962 | Quiet Weekend | Esther McCracken | Mabel Alexander |
| Bell, Book and Candle | John van Druten | Mabel Alxander | |
| 1963 | The Pen of My Aunt | Gordon Daviot | Ivor Buckley |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| The Late Miss Cordell | Philip Johnson | Vera Sweet | |
| April Dawn | Philip Johnson | Christopher Evans | |
| Dock Brief | John Mortimer | Mary Butler | |
| The Chalk Garden | Enid Bagnold | Mabel Alexander | |
| 1964 | The Rats | Agatha Christie | Vera Sweet |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| 1965 | The Heiress | Ruth and Augustus Goetz | Dorothy Rae |
| 1966 | The Pigeon with the Silver Foot | Pam H. Johnson and C. P. Shaw | Vera Sweet |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| 1967 | She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith | Vera Sweet |
| Hay Fever | Noel Coward | Dorothy Howard | |
| 1968 | Public Eye | Peter Shaffer | Dorothy Howard |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| Private Ear | Peter Shaffer | Sheila Poole | |
| 1969 | Flowering Cherry | Robert Bolt | Geoffrey Wright |
| The Irregular Verb ‘to love’ | Hugh and Margaret Williams | Sheila Poole | |
| 1970 | Boeing Boeing | Marc Camelotti | Ivor Buckley |
| April Dawn | Phillip Johnson | Marion Darby | |
| The Real Inspector Hound | Tom Stoppard | Christopher Evans | |
| 1971 | The Proposal | Anton Chekhov | Geoffrey Wright |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| Eighty in the Shade | Clemence Dane | Margaret Hunter | |
| Lady Audley’s Secret | G. Hazelwood | Christopher Evans | |
| Passion, Poison and Petrification | George Bernard Shaw | Christopher Evans | |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| 1972 | Our Town | Thornton Wilder | Pat Curtis |
| 1973 | The Happy Marriage | John Clements | Sheila Poole |
| The Rape of the Belt | Benn Levy | Sheila Poole | |
| 1974 | Knightsbridge | John Mortimer | Pat Curtis |
| Gladly Otherwise | N. F. Simpson | Pat Curtis | |
| What Shall We Tell Caroline? | John Mortimer | Pat Curtis | |
| An Inspector Calls | J. B. Priestley | Geoffrey Wright | |
| 1975 | Candlelight – a revue | – | Pat Curtis |
| Silver | How the Other Half Loves | Alan Ayckbourn | Geoffrey Curtis |
| 1976 | Cabaret | Christopher Isherwood | Pat Curtis |
| Black Comedy | Peter Shaffer | Pat Curtis | |
| Lumken Bunkum | Peter Bensted | Peter Bensted | |
| 1977 | Night Watch | Lucille Fletcher | Gill Lucas |
| Vivat! Vivat, Regina! | Robert Bolt | Su Johnson | |
| 1978 | The Pool by the Dragon Gate | E. M. Andrews | Margaret Hunter |
| Stage Cup | |||
| A Phoenix Too Frequent | Christopher Fry | Gill Lucas | |
| Dear Charles | Alan Melville | Margaret Hunter | |
| 1979 | The Orchestra | Jean Anouilh | Gill Lucas |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| The Man Most Likely To | Joyce Rayburn | Jean Smith | |
| For Better, For Worse | Arthur Watkyn | Robin Easther | |
| 1980 | The Red Velvet Goat | Josefina Niggli | Jean Smith |
| Sunday Costs Five Pesos | Josefina Niggli | Gill Lucas | |
| A Kind of Justice | Margaret Wood | Gill Lucas | |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| The Curse of the Werewolf | Ken Hill | Margaret Hunter | |
| 1981 | Gosforth’s Fete | Alan Ayckbourn | Gill Lucas |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| Confusions | Alan Ayckbourn | Gill Lucas | |
| Lock Up Your Daughters | Henry Fielding | Gill Lucas | |
| 1982 | A Murder Has Been Arranged | Emlyn Williams | Jean Smith |
| Dracula | Ken Hill | Margaret Hunter | |
| 1983 | The Mayor of Torontal | Gweneth Jones | Doreen Perry |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| Habeus Corpus | Alan Bennett | Gill Lucas | |
| The Beaux’ Strategem | George Farquhar | Margaret Hunter | |
| 1984 | Random Moments in a May Garden | James Saunders | Les Schroeder |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| 1984 | Post Horn Gallop | Tony Benfield | Tony Burch |
| Ring Round the Moon | Jean Anouilh | Gill Lucas | |
| 1985 | Bye Bye Blues | James Saunders | Les Schroeder |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| Trelawny of the Wells | Arthur Pinero | Margaret Hunter | |
| 1986 | Bedroom Farce | Alan Ayckbourn | Les Schroeder |
| Sweeney Todd | Brian J. Burton | Gill Lucas | |
| 1987 | The Diary of Anne Frank | Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett | Steve Peacock |
| Outside Edge | Richard Harris | Jean Smith | |
| 1988 | One Plus One Makes Three | Peter Colum | Gill Lucas |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| Pack of Lies | Hugh Whitemore | Les Schroeder | |
| The Odd Couple | Neil Simon | Andrew Cottingham | |
| 1989 | Epitaph for a Hard Man | Evelyn Hood | Gill Lucas |
| A Chorus of Disapproval | Alan Ayckbourn | Gill Lucas | |
| Nightmare | Norman Robbins | Jean Smith | |
| 1990 | A Respectable Funeral | Jimmie Chinn | Dave Baker |
| Ruby | Betchworth Festival entry | ||
| At the Changing of the Year | Malcolm Young | Dave Baker | |
| Hunchback of Notre Dame | Ken Hill | Margaret Hunter | |
| 1991 | Come into the Garden, Maud | Noel Coward | Jean Smith |
| Betchworth Festival entry – best supporting actor: Robin Hunter | |||
| An Engagement with Coward | Noel Coward | Jean Smith | |
| Dangerous Obsession | N. J. Crisp | Andrew Cottingham | |
| 1992 | Teahouse of the August Moon | John Patrick | Gill Lucas |
| 1993 | The Creature Creeps | Jack Sharkey | Marq English |
| When The Cat’s Away | John Mortimer and Brian Cooke | Sylvia Currie | |
| 1994 | The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov | Steve Trasler |
| 1995 | The Café | Neville Watchurst | Gill Lucas |
| Betchworth Festival entry | |||
| White Sheep of the Family | L. du Garde Peach | Jean Smith | |
| 1996 | Murder for the Asking | Derek Benfield | Gill Lucas |
| The Slipper and the Rose | Adapted by Pip Burley | Margaret Hunter | |
| with The Heath Players | |||
| 1997 | Second from Last in the Sack Race | Michael Birch | Gill Lucas |
| Death and the Maiden | Georgina Reid | Jean Smith | |
| 1998 | Clerical Errors | Georgina Reid | Gill Lucas |
| Habeus Corpus | Alan Bennett | Gill Lucas | |
| 1999 | Tiptoe Through the Tombstones | Norman Robbins | Gill Lucas |
| Close to the Wind | Richard Everett | Shelagh Bliss | |
| 2000 | Ladies Who Lunch | Tudor Gates | Gill Lucas |
| Gold | Dear Octopus | Dodie Smith | Margaret Hunter |
| 2001 | I Remember Mama | John van Druten | Gill Lucas |
| Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | Margaret Hunter | |
| 2002 | The Hollow | Agatha Christie | Gill Padbury |
| The Junipere Affair | Pip Rolls | Pip Rolls | |
| 2003 | Local Affairs | Richard Harris | Gill Lucas |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | Margaret Hunter | |
| 2004 | Situation Comedy | John Mortimer and Brian Cooke | Shelagh Bliss |
| Daisy Pulls It Off | Denise Deegan | Gill Lucas | |
| 2005 | The Railway Children | E. Nesbitt | Wendy Phillips |
| The Unvarnished Truth | Royce Ryton | Margaret Hunter | |
| 2006 | Last Tango in Walton on the Hill | David Tristram | Wendy Phillips |
| The Casting Couch | Sue Bradshaw and Wendy Phillips | Sue Bradshaw | |
| Toad of Toad Hall with The Heath Players |
A.A. Milne | Margaret Hunter | |
| 2007 | Out of Order | Ray Cooney | Gill Lucas |
| Racing Demon | David Hare | Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading) | |
| 2008 | The Scottish Play | Graham Holiday | Wendy Phillips |
| Vanity Fair | Constance Cox | Gill Lucas | |
| 2009 | Ghost Train | Arnold Ridley | Yaz Leighton |
| 2010 | The Weekend | Michael Palin | Wendy Phillips |
| Say Who You Are | Keith Waterhouse | Margret Hunter (rehearsed reading) | |
| Diamond | Come on, Jeeves | P. G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton | Gill Gibbins |
| 2011 | The Titfield Thunderbolt | Philip Goulding | Gill Lucas |
| An Inspector Calls | J.B. Priestley | Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading) | |
| The Drunkard | Brian J. Burton | Margaret Hunter | |
| with The Heath Players | |||
| 2012 | Dangerous Corner | J. B. Priestley | Gill Gibbins |
| Relative Values | Noel Coward | Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading) | |
| Rumours | Neil Simon | Lesley Parker | |
| 2013 | Take Away The Lady | Jimmie Chinn | Gill Lucas |
| A Provincial Lady | Ivan Turgenev | Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading) | |
| Semi-Detached | David Turner | Gill Lucas | |
| 2014 | Yes, Prime Minister | Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn | David Wilson |
| Pastiche | Nick Hall | Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading) | |
| Our Man in Havana | Clive Francis | Gill Lucas | |
| 2015 | Murder in Play | Simon Brett | Lesley Crowther-Smith |
| Knightsbridge | John Mortimer | Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading) | |
| Teahouse of the August Moon | John Patrick | Gill Lucas | |
| 2016 | Bedroom Farce | Alan Ayckbourn | Sharon Laws |
| Mother Figure and Between Mouthfuls | Alan Ayckbourn | Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading) | |
| Over my Dead Body | Derek Benfield | Debbie Nichols | |
| 2017 | A Touch of Danger | Francis Durbridge | Debbie Nichols |
| I Spy | John Mortimer | Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading) | |
| Waiting for the Train | Pip Rolls | Pip Rolls | |
| 2018 | Vintage Hitchcock – A Live Radio Play | Joe Landry | Lars Sawyer |
| Dear Diva | Jan Harris | Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading) | |
| Ladies Who Lunch | Tudor Gates | Gill Lucas | |
| 2019 | Curtain up on Murder | Bettine Manktelow | Gill Gibbins |
| The Music Lovers | Reggie Oliver after Georges Feydeau | Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading) | |
| Good Things | Liz Lockhead | Debbie Nichols | |
| 2020-2021 Platinum |
Break due to Covid | ||
| 2022 | What Really Happened | Pip Rolls | Pip Rolls (rehearsed reading) |
| Playgoers | Sir Arthur Wing Pinero | Christopher Slater (rehearsed reading) | |
| Under Milkwood | Dylan Thomas/Pip Rolls | Pip Rolls (rehearsed reading) | |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens/Pip Rolls | Pip Rolls (rehearsed reading) | |
| 2023 | Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders | Derek Webb | Lesley Crowther-Smith |
| Molly’s Calling | Pip Rolls | Pip Rolls | |
| 2024 | The Nightingales | Peter Quilter | Lesley Crowther-Smith |
