Dossier RPL/8/2 - Bundle of performance programmes

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RPL/8/2

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Bundle of performance programmes

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  • 1927-1937 (Création/Production)

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(1912-present)

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'Rowntree Players' is the oldest amateur theatre company in York and one of the oldest in the country. The company was established in 1912 as the 'Cocoa Works Dramatic Society' by workers from the Rowntrees Chocolate factory.

The first performances by the Society were staged in the factory's lecture hall, before moving to the Joseph Rowntree Theatre in 1935. To this day the majority of productions take place in the Joseph Rowntree Theatre.

The company is community-based and includes members of all ages and abilities from all over Yorkshire. It specialises in all genres of theatre productions, although it produced muscials infrequently compared to other types of theatre. The company continues to stage an annual pantomime.

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Includes programmes for the following performances:
'Clothes and the Woman', (C Paston) 30 Nov.1-3 December 1927;
'The Judge- of all the Earth' (S Schofield). Supported by 'The Play's the Thing', 11 November 1927 and Press Review;
'The Outsider' (D Br andon) 19-20 April 1928;
Triple Bill 'E & O.E' (C Williams), 'Amends', (Willians) and 'The Ghost of Jerry Bundler' (Jacobs & Rock) 12-13 October 1928;
'The Man with a Load of Mischief' (A Dukes) 6-9 March 1929;
'Ambrose Littlejohn's Adventure' (W Hackett) 17-20 April 1929 (also includes a ticket for the performance);
'Tons of Money' (Evans & Valentine) 16,18-19 October 1929;
'The Fourth Wall' (A A Milne) 4,6-7 December 1929;
'It Pays to Advertize' (W Hackett) 19,21-22 March 1930;
'A Damsel in Distress' (Hay & Wodehouse) 22,24-25 October 1930;
'The Barton Mystery' (W Hackett) 17,19-20 December 1930;
'When Knights were Bold' (C Marlow) 11-14 March 1931;
'The Cat and the Canary' (J Willard) 28,30-31 October 1931;
'Baa, Baa, Black Sheep' (Hay & Wodehouse) 10,12-13 February 1932;
'Michael & Mary' (A A Milne) 8-9 April 1932;
'Marry the Girl' (Arthurs & Miller) 18-19 November 1932;
'The Calendar' (E Wallace) 4-6 May 1933;
'The Ghost Train' (A Ridley) 16-18 November 1933;
'The Middle Watch' (Hay & King-Hall) 15-17 February 1934;
'The Green Goddess' (W Archer) 22-24 March 1934;
'The Case of the Frightened Lady' (E Wallace) 22-24 November 1934;
'The Young Idea' (Noel Coward) 30-31 January, 1-2 February 1935;
'East of Suez' (S Maugham) 20-23 March 1935;
'Ambrose Littlejohn's Adventure' (W Hackett) 27-30 November 1935;
'A Murder has been Arranged' (E Williams) 20-22 February 1936;
'Berkley Square' ( J L Balderston) 26-28 March 1936;
'The Midshipmaid' (Hay & King-Hall) 12-14 March 1936;
'The Wrecker' (Ridley & Merivale) 21-23 January 1937;
'The Flowers of the Forest' (J van Druten) 15-17 April 1937;
Triple Bill : 'Trial by Jury' (Gilbert & Sullivan), 'St Simeon Stylites' (Sladem & Smith) and 'The Lovely Miracle' (P Johnson), 29-30 April, 1 May 1937.

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