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- 1966-1979 (Creation)
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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:
'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass' (Carroll/Pearn) 11-14 May 1966;
'The Shop at Sly Corner' (E Percy) 10-12 November 1966;
'The Browning Version' and 'Harlequinade' (T Rattigan) 2-4 February 1967;
'Wolf's Clothing' (K Home) 6-8 April 1967;
'Tonight's the Night', Song & Dance Show, 17-20 May 1967;
'The Gazebo' (A Coppel) 2-4 November 1967;
'The Sound of Murder' (W Fairchild) 1-3 February 1968;
'The Amorous Prawn' (A Kimmins) 4-6 April 1968;
'Sweet Corn', A Revue, 15-18 May 1968;
'Chase Me Comrade' (R Cooney) 7-9 November 1968;
'Trap for a Lonely Man' (R Thomas) 30-31 January, 1 February 1969;
'Semi-Detached' (D Turner) 27-29 March 1969;
'Tonight's the Night', Song & Dance Show, 14-17 May 1969;
'Boeing Boeing' (M Camoletti) 23-25 October 1969;
'Little Women' (P Claphan) 18-20 December 1969;
'Look Back in Anger' (J Osborne) 19-21 March 1970;
'An Intimate Revue', 13-16 May 1970;
'The Mystery of the Mary Celeste' (L du Garde Peach) 22-24 October 1970;
'Hay Fever' (Noel Coward) 17-19 December 1970;
'Spring and Port Wine' (B Naughton) 18-20 March 1971;
'Good Night Mrs Puffin' (A Lovegrove) 21-23 October 1971;
'Gaslight' (P Hamilton) 16-18 March 1972;
'Wuthering Heights' (Bronte/Dawson) 10-13 May 1972;
'The Militants' (N Holland) 19-21 October 1972 and Press Review;
'The Geese are Getting Fat' (A Watkyn) 7-9 December 1972;
'Suspect' (Percy & Denham) 1-3 March 1973;
'The Haven' (R & A Goetz) 3-5 May 1973;
'A Letter from the General' (M McLaughlan) 25-27 October 1973 (includes press review);
'The Man Most Likely To' (J Rayburn) 13-15 December 1973 (includes press review);
'Wait Until Dark' (F Knott) 28 February, 1-2 March 1974;
'Daughter of the Left Hand' (N Holland) 2-4 May 1974;
'Doctor Brent's Household' (H Percy) 24-26 October 1974 (includes press review);
'Gigi' (C & A Loos) 12-14 December 1974 (includes press review);
'Once in a Blue Moon' (J Dole) 6-8 March 1975 (includes press review);
'Open to Murder' (P A Gent) 1-3 May 1975 (includes press review);
'Hedda Gabler' (H Ibsen) 23-25 October 1975 (includes press review);
'All in Good Time' (B Naughton) 11-13 December 1975 (includes press review);
'The Day After the Fair' (F Harvey) 4-6 March 1976 (includes press review);
'They Came to a City' (J B Priestley) 6-8 May 1976 (includes press review);
'The Servant' (P Naughton) 21-23 October 1976 (includes press review);
'Relatively Speaking' (A Ayckbourn) 2-4 December 1976 (includes press review and photographs);
'Loot' (J Orton) 3-5 March 1977 (includes press review and ticket);
'Tartuffe' (Moliere adap.M Malleson) 5-7 May 1977;
'Suddenly at Hone' (F Durbridge) 20-22 October 1977;
'Sweeney Todd the Barber' (Adap. B J Burton) 15-17 December 1977 (includes press review);
'The Lion in Winter' (J Goldman) 2-4 March 1978 (includes press review and photograph);
'Move Over Mrs Markham' (Cooney & Chapman) 4-6 May 1978 (includes press review, photograph and ticket;
'Crown Matrimonial' CR Ryton) 19-21 October 1978;
'Who Killed Santa Claus?"' (T Freely) 14-16 December 1978 (includes photograph);
'Don't Just Lie There, Say Something' (M Pertwee) 8-10 March 1979 (includes photographs);
'Absurd Person Singular' (A Ayckbourn) 10-12 May 1979 (includes ticket).
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