Productions

Web master F J Parker

Launceston Amateur Dramatic Society
150 Years Entertaining Local Families
1857 - 2010

Year

Title of Production

Date

Awards

 

 

 

 

1856

 

 

 

1857

A Grand Concert by Amateurs

21 Dec

 

1858

Grand Vocal & Instrumental Concert

30 Dec

 

1859

Concert of Sacred Music

11 April

 

1859

Vocal Music, Scenes from Shakespeare

27 Nov

 

1859

Twelfth Night, French Comedy
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

14 Dec

 

1860

Concert, Instrumentalist & Vocalists

9 Feb

 

1860

Concert

24 April

 

1860

Comic Drama Good for Nothing &
Merchant of Venice

20 Dec

 

1861

Concert

21 Jan

 

1861

King Henry VIII, Taming the Shrew,
Julius Caesar, The Census

19 Dec

 

1862

Concert

27 Oct

 

1863

Merchant of Venice, Dream of Eugene Aram

16 May

 

1864

Concert

16 June

 

 

Mr Bull and his Footman
Esop and the Frenchman

25 Dec

 

1865

Earl of Warwick, Cherry Bounce

21 Dec

 

1866

Heir at Law, French Comedy, Cato

12 Dec

 

1867

Selections from:
Merchant of Venice, The Poor Traveller, The Fall of Wolsey, The Boots at the Holly Tree, Lord Drun’reary, The Bloomsbury Christening, Hamlet, Hard Times, Othello

7 Jan

 

1868

Selections from:
Christmas Carol, Hamlet Act 1 scene 2 & 3, Barnaby Rudge, Macbeth, Dr Marigold, Character Sketch, The Bloomsbury Christening, Hamlet Act 3 scene 3,

24 Feb

 

 

Henry IV, Coriolanus, Le Mariage Force, The Area Bella

17 Dec

 

1869

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, King John, Shocking Events

16 Dec

 

1870

Ticklish Times, Urgent Private Affair

20/01

 

1870

Battle of Flodden, The Two Plums, Man of the World

21 March

 

1870

Dramatic Entertainment

25/26 May

 

1871

 

 

 

1872

Dramatic Entertainment

9/10 Jan

 

1873

 

 

 

1874

Concert

9 April
 

 

1875

Rambles to Rome

19 Dec

 

1876

 

 

 

1877

Concert

25 Jan

 

1977

Musical Entertainment

12 Dec

 

1878

The Vulgar Little Boy, Musical Entertainment

26 Feb

 

1978

How I Zeed the Queen, Humorous Sketch

18 March

 

1879

Dickens Christmas Carol

9 Jan

 

1879

Music,Readings, Vocal and Instrumental Entertainment

22 Dec

 

1880

A Musical Soiree

22 March

 

1880

Harvest Home

29 Nov

 

1881

TableauxVivants

26 April

 

1881

Good for Nothing, Slasher and Crasher

14 July

 

1881

Reading and Music

20 Dec

 

1882

Concert

2 March

 

1882

The Pickwick Trial

14 Dec

 

1883

Navel Engagement, Cut off with a Shilling

1 May

 

1883

Entertainment, Melodies, Readings

12 Dec

 

1884

The Chimney Corner, The Rough Diamond

12 April

 

1884

Concert

8 Dec

 

1885

Called Back, The Ironmaster

28 Feb
2/3 March

 

1886

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

4/6 Jan

 

1886

Bengal Tiger, Urgent Private Affairs

16 Sept

 

1886

The Breach of Promise Case

18 Nov

 

1886

The Rose Maiden (Choral Group)

16 Dec

 

1887

Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe
The Disputed Valentine

3 Feb

 

1887

May Queen (Choral Group)

14 April

 

1887

Freezing a Mother in Law

21 July

 

1887

Opening of Town Hall
Grand Concert

27 Oct

 

1877

The Magic Mirror

8 Dec

 

1888

HMS Pinafore

18 Jan

 

1888

Creation & Favourite Operas (Choral Group)

11 April

 

1888

Whitebait at Greenwich

8 Nov

 

1889

Artful Dodger

26 Feb

 

1899

Ancient Mariner

12 Dec

 

1890

Little Red Riding Hood

6-8 Feb

 

1890

After Dinner & Six and Eight Pence

17 April

 

1890

Elijah (Choral Group)

13 Nov

 

1890

Sinbad the Sailor

25 Dec

 

1891

Princess Toto

6 May

 

1891

Borrowed Plumes

10 Dec

 

1892

The Messiah (Choral Group)

29 Feb

 

1892

Dramatic Recital

4 Oct

 

1893

Aladdin

20-21 Jan

 

1893

Woman of Samaria (Choral Group)

6 April

 

1893

Black & White Concert

2 Nov

 

1894

Red Riding Hood and Little Bo Peep

18-20 Jan

 

1894

Songs of the West

9 Oct

 

1895

The Forty Thieves

8-9 Feb

 

1895

Chamber Concert

21 Nov

 

1896

Grand Concert

13 Feb

 

1896

Little Bo Peep

13-14 March

 

1896

The Awakening of the Flowers

12 Nov

 

1897

 

 

 

1898

 

 

 

1899

Sarah’s Young Man

16 Nov

 

1900

In Possession & Ali Baba

18 Jan

 

1900

Ancient Mariner (Choral Group)

1 Feb

 

1901

Cinderella

18-19 Jan

 

1901

Saul (Choral Group)

1 Feb

 

1902

Beauty and the Beast

24-25 Jan

 

1902

St Cecilia’s Day (Choral Group)

6 Feb

 

1902

Easter Concert (Choral Group)

4 April

 

1902

Browne with an E

27 Nov

 

1903

Babes in the Wood

9-10 Jan

 

1903

The Messiah (Choral Group)

19 Feb

 

1904

Robinson Crusoe

15-16 Jan

 

1904

The Pied Piper of Hamelin (Choral Group)

7 April

 

1905

Dick Whittington

6-7 Jan

 

1905

Hiawatha’s Departure

2 Feb

 

1905

The May Queen (Choral Group)

27 April

 

1905

Such is Fame

23 Nov

 

1906

Robinson Crusoe

12 Jan

 

1906

Samson (Choral Group)

15 Feb

 

1906

The Spirit of the Year

17 Dec

 

1907

Aladdin

11-12 Jan

 

1907

TheEri-King’s Daughter & Banner of Saint George (Choral Group)

7 Feb

 

1908

Babes in the Wood

8-9 Feb

 

1908

St Paul (Choral Group)

20 Feb

 

1908

Florette

3 March

 

1908

Love’s Alarms

21 May

 

1909

Cinderella

22-23 Jan

 

1909

Elijah (Choral Group)

18 Feb

 

1910

Lay of the Last Minstrel

3 Feb

 

1910

Two Naughty Old Ladies

19 April

 

1911

The Merry Widow

7 Jan

 

1911

MrsGorringe’s Necklace

4 May

 

1912

Bride of Dunkerron (Choral Group)

8 Feb

 

1912

HMS Pinafore

22-23 May

 

1913

Hiawatha (Choral Group)

30 Jan

 

1913

Pirates of Penzance  7-8 May   

22/23 May

 

1914

The Messiah (Choral Group)

19 Feb

 

1914

Mikado

7-8 May

 

1915

Concert (Lord Roberts’ Memorial Fund)

26 Dec

 

1916

 

 

 

1917

The Empire’s Honour (British Red Cross)

15 Feb

 

1917

Grand Concert (Choral Group)

8 March

 

1917

Our Day - Tubby and Gawks

25 Oct

 

1918

Jackdaw of Rheims (Choral Group)

7 Feb

 

 

Our Day - Concert

24 Oct

 

1919

A Most Natural Misunderstanding
A Marriage Has Been Arranged
The Ninth Walt and The Marriage Failure

20 Jan

 

1919

The Deacon’s Masterpiece (Choral Group)

27 Feb

 

1919

A Christmas Carol

31 July

 

1920

The Messiah (Choral Group)

12 Feb

 

1920

Quality Street

20 May

 

1920

The Messiah (Choral Group)

2 Dec

 

1921

The Revenge (Choral Group)

10 Feb

 

1921

Grand Concert

4 Dec

 

1922

A Tabloid 

9 Feb

 

1922

Elijah (Choral Group)

23 Feb

 

1922

Yesterday, To-Day and Tomorrow

23 Nov

 

1923

Robinson Crusoe

1-3 Feb

 

1923

MerrieEngland (Choral Group)

8 Feb

 

1923

Broadcasting

3 Dec

 

1924

Robison Crusoe

22-23 Jan

 

1924

The Creation (Choral Group)

27 March

 

1924

A Scratch Rehearsal

20-21 May

 

1925

Lord Richard in the Pantry

1/2 Apl

 

1926

Spreading the News

18 Nov

 

1927

Aladdin

24-26 Feb

 

1927

The Ghost Train

21 Sept

 

1927

Renewal  of Opera meetings

 

 

1928

Pirates of Penzance  

20/22 Nov

 

1929

AmbroseApplejohn’s Adventure

11/12 Feb

 

1929

Tons of Money  

9/10 Oct

 

1929

The Mikado

19/22 Nov

 

1930

AskBeccles

28 Apl

 

1930

Mr. Pym Passes By

8/9 Oct

 

1930

Iolanthe

2/5 Dec

 

1931

Launceston Pageant

21/23 July

 

1931

The Lord of the Manor

12/13 Dec

 

1931

H.M.S. Pinafore

28/31 Oct

 

1932

Double or Quits

31/1 Apl

 

1933

Murder on the Second Floor

12/13 Oct

 

1933

The Tonics

 

 

1934

BaaBaaBlacksheep

12/14 Apl

 

1934

The Tonics

 

 

1934

TheBarrets of Wimpole Street

24/26 Oct

 

1935

The Mock Beggar &
She Passed Through Lorraine

28/1 Mar

 

1935

The Thirteenth Chair

29/30 Oct

 

1935

Tonics

 

 

1935

Divisional Final

 

 

1936

Journey’s End

30/1 Dec

 

1937

The Ghost Train

11/13 Nov

 

1937

Shall We Join The Ladies

06 Mar

 

1937

Dorothy

25/27 Nov

 

1937

Grand Carol Concert

`9 Dec

 

1938

Happy Days

25/26 Oct

 

1938

Grand Carol Concert

18 Dec

 

1939

Family Album

11 Mar

Regional Finals
Globe Plymouth

1939

Pirates of Penzance

20/22 Apl

 

1940

Nothing But the Truth

25/26 Jan

 

1940

Grand Variety

19/20 Feb

 

1940

LauncestonCarolare

March

 

1941

Liskeard Wartime Entertainers

Feb

 

1941

TheWholeTown’s Talking

15 May

 

1942

LauncestonCarolare

Dec

 

1943

 

 

 

1944

 

 

 

1945

Victory Concert

May

 

1945

Act of Thanksgiving

Nov

 

1945

Carol Concert

23 Dec

 

1946

Love From a Stranger

4/5 Mar

 

1946

Concert

28 May

 

1946

Carol Concert

18 Dec

 

1947

Quiet Weekend

6/7 Feb

 

1947

Concert

20 May

 

1947

Messiah

18 Dec

 

1948

The Middle Watch

18/20 Mar

 

1949

No Medals

17/19 Mar

 

1949

Pink String and Sealing Wax

10/12 Nov

 

1950

Fools Rush In

20/22 Apl

 

1950

Chiltern Hundreds

30 N 2 Dec

 

1950

Variety Concert

7/8 Nov

 

1950

Tony Draws a Horse

29/30 Nov

 

1951

Night Must Fall

5/7 Apl

 

1952

This Happy Breed

20/22 Mar

 

1952

See How They Run

4/6 Dec

 

1953

One Wild Oat

16/18 Apl

 

1953

Coronation Show

2 Jun

 

1954

Bonaventure

26/28 Nov

 

1954

Travellers Joy

25/27  Mar

 

1954

Murder at the Vicarage

2/4 Dec

 

1955

Vanity Fair

17/19 Mar

 

1955

Festival Certificate

14/21 May

 

1955

Farmer’s Wife

24/26 Nov

 

1956

Busman’s Honeymoon

22/24 Mar

 

1956

Will Any Gentleman

22/24 Nov

 

1956

1937 Photo Dorothy

 

 

1957

Simon and Laura

28/30 Mar

 

1957

1929 Tons of Money

 

 

1957

The Pigeon With The Silver Foot

June

 

1957

The Sacred Flame

5/7 Dec

 

1958

The Happiest Days of Your Life

27/28 Mar

 

1958

1912 H M S Pinafore

 

 

1958

Hollow Ground

19 Apl

 

1958

Theatre Festival

 

 

1958

House by the Lake

4/6 Dec

 

1959

Sailor Beware

19/22 Mar

 

1959

1949 No Medals

 

 

1959

Night was our Friend

19/21 Nov

 

1960

Reluctant Heroes

24/26 Mar

 

1960

Green Room

14 Sept

 

1960

The Return of Peggy Atherton

8/10 Dec

 

1961

The White Sheep of the Family

23/25 Mar

 

1961

Festival Certificate

 

 

1961

The Rape of the Belt

23/25 Nov

 

1961

Play Readings

61/62

 

1962

The Indifferent Shepherd

22/24 Mar

 

1962

Start Youth Group

 

 

1962

The Geese Are Getting Fat

22/24 Nov

 

1963

Amorous Prawn

21/23 Mar

 

1963

Play Festival

 

 

1963

The Unexpected Guest

21/23 Nov

 

1963

Play Readings

63/64

 

1964

Spring 1600

19/21 Mar

1st Prize
County 3 Act Play

1964

Play Festival

 

 

1964

Come Blow Your Horn

19/21 Nov

 

1965

Wild Horses

25/27 Mar

 

1965

The Red Velvet Goat  Youth Group
Play Festival

18 Jun

 

1965

The Noble Spaniard

25/27 Nov

Prize

1965

Play Readings

65/66

 

1966

Daddy Longlegs

24/26 Mar

 

1966

Certificate & Adjudication

 

 

1966

Gaslight

24/26 Nov

 

1966

Play Readings

 

 

1967

Busybody

6/8 Apl

Prize

1967

Play Festival Certificate

 

 

1967

Witch Errant

23/25 Nov

 

1968

The Importance of Being Earnest

21/23 Mar

 

1968

Play Festival

 

 

1968

Love in a Mist

14/16 Nov

 

1969

Cinderella (Pantomime)

8/11 Jan

 

1969

The Miracle Worker

27/29 Mar

3rd Prize

1969

Tale of Fire & Black Comedy

20/22 Nov

 

1970

Sleeping Beauty (Pantomime)

14/17 Jan

 

1970

The Manor of Northstead

Mar

 

1970

The Captives

Nov

 

1970

Play Readings

70/71

 

1971

Dick Whittington (Pantomime)

13/16 Jan

 

1971

The Laboratory

14 May
& 3 Jun

 

1971

She Stoops to Conquer

25/27 Mar

 

1971

Elizabethan Fayre

3 Jun

 

1971

Say Who You Are

26 Nov

3rd Prize

1972

Jack & the Beanstalk (Pantomime)

18/22 Jan

 

1972

Pygmalion

23/25 Mar

 

1972

Foiled & Counterfoiled (Victorian Melodrama)

22 Jun

 

1972

Tartuffe

23/25 Nov

 

1973

Babes in the Wood (Pantomime)

10/13 Jan

 

1973

Goodnight Mrs Puffin

22/24 Mar

1st Prize

1973

Trap for a Lonely Man

16 Nov

 

1974

Aladdin (Pantomime)

16 Jan

 

1974

Relatively Speaking

21 Mar

1st Prize

1974

How the Other Half Loves

26 Oct

 

1975

Pied Piper of Hamelin

14/18 Jan

 

1975

Murder Mistaken

13/15 Nov

 

1976

Queen of Hearts (Pantomime)

22 Jan

 

1976

Noah

29/30 Apl

3rd Prize

1976

Thark

21/25 Oct

 

1977

Red Riding Hood Little Bopeep (Pantomime)

18/21 Jan

 

1977

Boeing-Boeing

5/7 May

 

1977

When we are Married

13/17 Oct

2nd Prize

1978

William Tell (Pantomime)

17/21 Jan

Prize
Prize for Effects

1978

Billy Liar

4/6 May

 

1978

Mixed Doubles

No date

 

1978

Cinderella 2000 (Pantomime)

No date

 

1979

Book of the Month

29/30 Mar

 

1979

Move Over Mrs Markham

8/10 Nov

 

1980

Humpty Dumpty (Pantomime)

26 Jan

 

1980

The Murder of Maria Martin or The Red Barn

6/8 Nov

 

1981

Oliver (Musical)

24/28 Mar

 

1981

Hay Fever

28/30 Oct

1st Prize

1982

Wizard of Oz (Musical)

16/20 Mar

Best Musical

1982

Farmer’s Wife

3/6 Nov

2nd Prize

1983

All Things Bright & Beautiful

19/22 Oct

 

1984

Sinbad the Sailor (Pantomime)

25/28 Jan

 

1984

House Guest

21/243 Mar

Best Set

1984

Maytime Medley

12 May

 

1984

See How They Run

14/17 Nov

Prize

1985

Blithe Spirit

13/16 Mar

 

1985

Who Goes Bare

23/26 Oct

 

1986

Dracula Spectacula (Musical)

4/8 Feb

 

1986

Relationships (One Acts) Callington??

July

Best Musical

1986

Norman Daniel’s 50th Anniversary
with Lads (Cabaret)

13 Sept

 

1986

Ten Times Table

22/28 Oct

1st Prize

1987

Xmas Party

10 Jan

 

1987

Dazzle (Musical)

11/13 Feb

2nd Prize

1987

Concert in aid of Mencap

29/30 May

 

1987

The Anniversary

14/17 Oct

 

1987

Clarion Open Space write-up

3 June

 

1988

A Little Hotel on the Side

24/27 Feb

1st Prize

1988

Madam Tic-Tac

1/3 Dec

1st Prize

1989

Post Horn Gallop

15/18 Mar

 

1989

Everything in the Garden

8/11 Nov

 

1990

The End of the Pier Show

March

 

1990

The Hollow Crown (In aid of MacMillan Nurses)

Summer

 

1990

Habeas Corpus

7/10 Nov

 

1991

The Killing of Sister George

20/23 Mar

Best Set

1991

Aladdin (Pantomime In Aid of Children in Need

5/9 Nov

 

1992

No Sex Please We’re British

25/28 Mar

 

1992

Save My Child

 

 

1992

That’s Entertainment

 

 

1993

Outside Edge

24/27 Mar

2nd Prize

1993

Sold to the Gypsies

 

 

1993

Hollow Crown

 

 

1993

And So To Bed

17/20 Nov

Best Set

1994

Merely Players
(Words & Music from the Elizabethans)

 

 

1994

Chorus of Disapproval

16/17 Nov

Prize

1995

Gosforth’s Fete (One Act Play Festival)

6 May

 

1995

Merely Players-A brief look at the 1920’s & 30’s

 

 

1995

VE Day Entertainment

 

 

1995

On the Razzle

15/18 Nov

2nd Prize

1996

The Whole Truth
(Youth Theatre One Act Play Festival)

 

Best Youth Performance

1996

Day of Reckoning (Melodrama)

 

 

1996

Merely Players
(Christmas Entertainment)

 

 

1996

Contrasts

 

 

1997

Share and Share Alike
(Youth Festival Musical)

30 Jan/1 Feb

Prize
Back Stage Crew

1997

Sound of Music (Musical)

11/15 Nov

 

1998

May Fever

7/9 May

 

1998

Bard Bytes  AGM

16 July

 

1998

Carousel (Musical)

10/14 Nov

 

1999

The Importance of Being Earnest

25/27 Mar

 

1999

The Poacher
One Act Play Festival)

7 Apl

 

1999

Stage Fright (Youth Group)

22 Sept

 

1999

Waiting in the Wings

18/20 Nov

 

2000

Nudes in Waning Light & Behind The Curtain (One Act Play Festival)

11 Apl

Wakeham Cup

2000

April Flowers

13/15 Apl

 

2000

Daisy Pulls It Off

11/14 Oct

 

2001

Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

11/14 July

3rd prize
Roy Crosley Award

2002

The New Sleeping Beauty (Pantomime)

23/26 Jan

 

2002

Thomasine Bonaventure

July

Jubilee Celebration

2003

Frankenstein the Panto

22/25 Jan

 

2003

Everybody’s Friend
(1 Act Play Festival St Austell)

Apl & 16 May

 

2003

Dream Jobs
(1 Act Play Festival St Austell & Falmouth)

12 Apl &
16 May

Bernard Douglas Award 2nd Regional Finals

2003

Round and Round the Garden

16/18 Oct

 

2004

Our Day Out

8/10 Jan

 

2004

AlloAllo

12/15 May

 

2004

Aspect of Youth

17 June

Youth Production

2005

Robinson Crusoe and the Pirates

26/29 Jan

Best Musical
Best Actress

2005

In Need of Care
AllEngland 1 Act Play Festival

7/8 Apl

Youth Production
Falmouth

2005

Tons of Money

12/14 May

 

2005

Blue Remembered Hills

24/26 Nov

 

2005

In Need of Care (Youth Group)

24/26 Nov

 

2006

Be My Baby (COAPF) St Austell

7 Apl

Youth Production
St Austell

2006

Fat Lady Sings ( COAPF) St Austell

7 Apl

 

2006

Stepping Out

11/13 May

 

2007

Oliver

24/27 Jan

 

2007

Key For Two

17/19 May

 

2007

Musical Extravaganza LADS 150 Years

29/30 June

 

2007

Jack and the Beanstalk

5/8 Dec

 

2008

Thumbelina Youth Production

13/14 March

 

2008

Pity About Kitty

28/29 March

Cornwall 1 Act Play Festival

2008

Pity About Kitty
Interior Design

12/13 Sept

 

2008

Christmas Carol

10/13 Dec

 

2009

Overtime

29/30 March

Cornwall 1 Act Play Festival

2009

Us and Them  Youth Production

29/30 March

Cornwall 1 Act Play Festival
Best Youth
Best Director

2009

Us and Them  Youth Production

14 May

Royal Cornwall
Showground

2009

Veronica’s Room

10/11 July

 

2009

Veronica’s Room  Milton Abbot Village Hall

14 Aug

 

2009

Veronica’s Room  North Hill Village Hall

15 Aug

 

2009

Pinocchio

15/17 Oct

 

2010

Annie Get Your Gun

27/30 Jan

 

2010

The Blind  (Cornwall One Act Play Festival)

26/27 March

St Austell

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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