Dossier RPL/8/5 - Bundle of performance programmes

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RPL/8/5

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Bundle of performance programmes

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  • 1979-1985 (Création/Production)

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1 bundle

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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:
'Anastasia' (Adap. G Bolton) 18-20 October 1979 (includes press review and photographs);
'Confessions' (A Ayckbourn) 13-15 December 1979 (includes press review and newspaper cutting);
'The Long and the Short and the Tall' (W Hall) 6-8 March 1980 (includes press review, press cutting and photographs);
'Lloyd George Knew My Father' (W Douglas-Home) 1-3 May 1980 (includes photograph);
Chairman's Report, AGM 1980;
'The Killing of Sister George' (F Markus) 16-18 October 1980 (includes press review and photograph); 'The Babes in the Wood' (Rutherford & Wilcock) 18-20 December 1980 (includes press review and photograph);
All England Theatre Festival, Preliminary Round at York, 20-21 February 1981 (includes photographs);
'The Bed Before Yesterday' (B Travers) 5-7 March 1981 (includes press review and photograph);
'A Man for all Seasons' (R Bolt) 30 April, 1-2 May 1981 (includes press review and photograph);
Annual Report for AGM 1981;
'Happy Birthday' (P Camoletti) 15-17 October 1981 (includes press review and photographs);
'Cinderella' (P Quartermain) 16-19 December 1981 (includes press review and photographs);
'Celebration' (Waterhouse & Hall) 4-6 March 1982 (includes press review and photographs);
Menu for 70th Birthday Dinner, 26 February 1982 (includes press cutting and photographs);
England Theatre Festival, Preliminary Round at York, 20 March 1982;
All England Theatre Festival, NE Divisional Final at York, 24 April 1982;
'The Servant of Two Masters' (C Goldoni) 29-30 April and 1 May 1982, (includes press review and photographs);
Annual Report for AGM 1982 (includes press photograph);
'Ten Times Table' (A Ayckbourn) 21-23 October 1982 (includes press review and photograph);
'Dick Whittington' (J Crocker) 15-18 December 1982 (includes press review and ticket);
All England Theatre Festival, Preliminary Round at York, 11 March 1983;
'Aunt Edwina' (W Douglas-Home) 28-30 April 1983 (includes press review and photographs);
'Whose Life Is It Anyway?' (B Clark) 3-5 March 1983 (includes press review and photographs);
Annual Report for AGM 1983;
'The Dame of Sark' (W Douglas-Home) 20-22 October 1983 (includes press review and photographs);
'Humpty Dumpty' (J Crocker) 14-17 December 1983 (includes press review and photographs);
'This Happy Breed' (Noel Coward) 1-3 March 1984 (includes press review and photographs);
All England Theatre Festival, Preliminary Round at York, 8 March 1984, and Photograph and Adjudicator's Report;
All England Theatre Festival, NE Divisional Final at York, 7 April 1984;
All England Theatre Festival, Northern Area Final at Oldham, 28 April 1984 (includes press cutting); All England Theatre Festival, England Final at Cheltenham Spa, 2 June 1984;
'The Dreamer' (R Harwood) 3-5 May 1984 (includes press review) Annual Report for AGM 1984;
'Lord Arthur Saville's Crime' (C Cox) 18-20 October 1984 (includes press review and photographs);
'Pinocchio' (J Morley) 12-15 December 1984;
'Rattle of a Simple Man' (C Dyer) 7-9 March 1985 (includes press review and photographs);
All England Theatre Festival, Preliminary Round at York, 16 March 1985 (includes press review), Photographs and Adjudicator's Report;
All England Theatre Festival, NE Divisional Final at York, 20 April 1985;
'Outside Edge' (H Harris) 2-4 May 1985 (includes press review and photographs);
Annual Report for ACM 1985.

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