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- 1990-1995 (Création/Production)
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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:
Centenary Celebration Show, 19-22 September 1990 (includes press review);
'The Haunted Through Lounge and Recessed Dining Nook at Farndale Castle' (McGillivray & Zerlin) (includes photographs);
'A Christmas Carol' Musical Version (Dickens adap. Bedloe) 13-15 December 1990 (includes press review and photographs);
'Blithe Spirit' (Noel Coward) 28 Feb. 1-2 March 1991;
All England Theatre Festival, Preliminary Round at York, 15-16 March 1991 (includes adjudicator's report);
All England Theatre Festival, England Final at York, 1 June 1991;
'And a Nightingale Sang' (C P Taylor) 2-4 May 1991 (includes photograph);
Annual Report for ACM 1991;
'Breeze Block Park' (W Russell) 10-12 October 1991;
'Robinson Crusoe' (J Morley) 19-21 December 1991 (includes photographs);
Invitation Card and Menu for 80th Birthday Dinner at Merchant Adventurer's Hall, 8 February 1992 (includes correspondence);
'Mansfield Park' (J Austen) 27-29 February 1992 (includes press review);
All England Theatre Festival, Preliminary Round at York, 13-14 March 1992 (includes adjudicator's report);
All England Theatre Festival, NE Divisional Final at Pickering, 11 April 1992 (includes adjudicator's report);
'Out of Sight ... Out of Murder' (F Carmichael) 30 April, 1 May 1992 (includes press review and photograph);
'Celebration' (Waterhouse & Hall) 2-4 July 1992 (includes photograph);
Annual Report for ACM 1992 (includes press cutting);
'The Roses of Eyam' (D Taylor) 15-18 October 1992 (includes press review);
'Jack and the Beanstalk' (J Morley) 15-19 December 1992 (includes press review and photographs);
'Veronica's Room' (I Levin) 25-27 February 1993 (includes press review, photograph and ticket);
All England Theatre Festival, Preliminary Round at York, 20 March 1993 (includes adjudicator's report);
All England Theatre Festival, N E Divisional Final at Sedgefield, 1 May 1993 (includes adjudicator's report);
'Two and Two Make Sex' (Harris & Darbon) 29-30 April, 1 May 1993 (includes press review and photographs);
Annual Report for ACM 1993;
'When We are Married' (J B Priestley) 14-16 October 1993 (includes photographs);
'Puss in Boots' (J Morley) 15-18 December 1993 (includes press review, photographs and cartoon);
'Lock Up Your Daughters' (Adap.B Miles) 24-26 February 1994 (includes press review, photographs and ticket);
'Seeds of Doubt' (P Gordon) 28-30 April 1994 (includes press review);
Annual Report for AGM 1994;
'Salt of the Earth' (J Godber) 13-15 October 1994 (includes press review, photographs and ticket);
'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' (J Morley) 14-17 December 1994 (includes press review and photographs);
'Rebecca' (D du Maurier) 23-25 February 1995 (includes press review, photographs and ticket. Also includes membership card for the society for the season 1994-95);
'Deadly Nightcap' (F Durbridge) 27-29 April 1995 (includes press review, photographs and ticket);
Annual Report for ACM 1995.
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