Recent productions from CADS
2024 - 2023 - 2022 - 2021 - 2020 - 2019 - 2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995
Recent productions include:
'The Little Mermaid' by Warren McWilliams
Two Short Comedies - 'Don't Blame it on the Boots' by Nick Warburton & 'Seven Movies' by Roy Maddox
May 2023
'Don't Blame it on the Boots' by Nick Warburton (Welwyn Drama Festival)
January 2023
'Sleeping Beauty' by Warren McWilliams
'The Blonde Bombshell' by Roy Maddox (Welwyn Drama Festival)
'Strangers on a Film' by Stephen Wyatt, adapted by Roy Maddox (Cambridge Festival of Drama/Royston Arts Festival)
May 2021
'Seven Movies' by Roy Maddox (Welwyn Drama Festival - online)
'CADaret! 2'- an online Christmas-themed cabaret recorded and posted to YouTube
September 2020
'CADaret!' - an online cabaret recorded and posted to YouTube
January 2020
Pantomime: 'Jack and the Beanstalk' by Tom Whalley
December 2019
'A Christmas Miscellany' - devised by Kathy Young for the Royston Museum
September 2019
'Flare Path' by Terence Rattigan
January 2019
Pantomime: 'Robinson Crusoe and the Pirates' by Tom Whalley
'Ghost Writer' by David Tristram
April 2018
'Romance is Dead' by Ben Lewis, adapted by Emma Daintrey
January 2018
Pantomime: 'Mother Goose' by Damien Trasler, David Lovesy, Steve Clark & Brian Two
'Pygmalion' by Bernard Shaw
January 2017
Pantomime: 'Red Riding Hood' by Peter Long & Keith Rawnsley
'Abigail's Party' by Mike Leigh
January 2016
Pantomime: 'Aladdin' by Ian Sims
'Black Comedy' by Peter Shaffer/'Light entertainment' devised by Kathy Young
January 2015
Pantomime: 'Cinderella' by Graham Barraclough
'The Fosdyke Saga' by Alan Plater & Bill Tidy
March 2014
'Turn to Face the Change' by Peter Hawes (Sawston Drama Festival)
February 2014
'Royston 1914'- devised by Kathy Young & Louise Atkins for the Royston Museum
January 2014
Pantomime: 'Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood' by Damian Trasler, David Lovesy & Steve Clark
'Little Shop of Horrors' by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken
April-May 2013
'Turn to Face the Change' by Peter Hawes (Cambridge & Welwyn Drama Festivals)
January/February 2013
Pantomime: 'Dick Whittington' by Damian Trasler, David Lovesy & Steve Clark
'Return to the Forbidden Planet' by Bob Carlton
January 2012
Pantomime: 'Knight Fever! An Arthurian Panto' by Damian Trasler, David Lovesy & Steve Clark
'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde
May 2011
'An Evening of Love' devised by Kathy Young & Louise Atkins'Caught in the Act' by Bruce Kane (Cambridge Drama Festival)
January 2011
June 2010
'The Golden Pathway Annual' by John Harding & John Burrows
January 2010
Pantomime: '1001 Arabian Nights (and a Matinee)' by Damian Trasler, David Lovesy & Steve Clark
2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995
'The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery' by David McGillivray & Walter Zerlin Jnr (Royston Arts Festival)
May 2009
'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare (performed in the open air)
January 2009
Pantomime: 'Puss in Boots' by Damian Trasler, David Lovesy & Steve Clark
June 2008
'Shakers Re-Stirred’ by John Godber & John Thornton (Welwyn Drama Festival)
April 2008
‘The Case of the Prince Formerly Known as Hamlet: a Justin Thyme Mystery’ by Bruce Kane (Cambridge Drama Festival)
January 2008
Pantomime: ‘Snow White & the Seven Dwarves’ by Jevan Green
Two one-act plays : ‘What’s for Pudding?’ by David Tristram & ‘Ghost Writer’ by Nick Warburton (Royston Arts Festival)
June 2007
‘The Allotment‘ by Gillian Plowman (Haverhill Drama Festival)
April 2007
‘A Separate Peace’ by Tom Stoppard (Cambridge Drama Festival)
December 2006
'The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of A Christmas Carol’ by David McGillivray & Walter Zerlin Jnr
September 2006
‘The Camlyist House Murder’ by Peter Salt
June 2006
Two one-act plays: ‘The Real Inspector Hound’ by Tom Stoppard & ‘The Cherry Sisters’ by Michael Green
April 2006
‘The Last Bread Pudding’ by Nick Warburton (Cambridge Drama Festival)
January 2006
Pantomime: ‘The Little Cabin Boy’ by Roy Maddox
Cabaret: The 1960s
June 2005
‘The Last Bread Pudding’ by Nick Warburton (Haverhill Drama Festival)
January 2005
Pantomime: ‘Robin Hood and his...er... Morris Men’ by Roy Maddox
2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995
‘The Hitch-Hiker’ by Lucille Fletcher (Haverhill Drama Festival)
Pantomime: ‘Beauty & the Beast’ by Judy Shone
Two one-act plays: ‘Swan Song’ by Anton Chekhov & ‘No Why’ by John Whiting (ADC Theatre, Cambridge)
Pantomime: ‘Goldilocks & the Three Bears‘ by John Morley
'The Dracula Spectacula Show' by John Gardiner & Andrew Parr
Pantomime: ‘Cinders: the True Story’ by David Tristram
‘Wyrd Sisters’ by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Briggs (ADC Theatre, Cambridge)
Pantomime: ‘Aladdin’ by Kathy Wholley
Two one-act plays: ‘The Hitch-Hiker’ & ‘Sorry Wrong Number’ by Lucille Fletcher (ADC Theatre, Cambridge)
Pantomime: 'Dick Turpin’ by Paul Reakes
2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995
‘The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4’ by Sue Townsend
Pantomime: ‘Sleeping Beauty’ by Kathy Wholley
'No Love Lost' by Rony Robinson
Pantomime: 'Little Red Riding Hood' by Derek Tomlinson
'Habeas Corpus' by Alan Bennet
Pantomime: 'Robinson Crusoe' by John Morley
Cabaret: 'CADS Comedy Revue'
Pantomime: 'Little Miss Muffet' by Paul Reakes
Pantomime: 'Jack and the Beanstalk' by Norman Robbins
2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995
Other productions have included:
- 'Two Men From Derby' by Barry Hines
- 'What Are You Doing Here?' by David Campton
- 'Ernie's Incredible Illucinations' by Alan Ayckbourn
- 'A Visit From Miss Prothero' by Alan Bennett
- 'Spring Song Singers' by Richard Tydeman
- 'Absent Friends' by Alan Ayckbourn
- 'Gosforth's Fete' by Alan Ayckbourn
- 'A Pack of Lies' by Hugh Whitemore
- 'Between Mouthfuls' by Alan Ayckbourn
- 'Irrisistable Albert' by John Turpin
- 'Blithe Spirit' by Noel Coward
- 'The Bride and Bachelor' by Ronald Millar
- 'Cinderella' by Wilfred Miller
- 'Mary Rose' by J M Barrie
- 'Fish Out of Water' by Derek Benfield
- 'Arms and the Man' by George Bernard Shaw
- 'I'll Get My Man' by Philip King
- 'Separate Tables' by Terence Rattigan
- 'All in Good Time' by Bill Naughton
- 'We Must Kill Toni' by Ian Stuart Black
- 'Goodnight, Mrs Puffin' by Arthur Lovegrove
- 'Ghost Train' by Arnold Ridley
- 'Gaslight' by Patrick Hamilton
- 'Mrs Willie' by Alan Melville
- 'Libel' by Edward Wooll
- 'Captain Carvallo' by Dennis Cannan
- 'Haul for the Shore' by Jean McConnell
- 'Something to Hide' by Leslie Sands
- 'White Sheep of the Family' by L Du Garde Peach & Ian Hay
- 'Candied Peel' by F L Cary
- 'Book of the Month' by Basil Thomas
- 'My Three Angels' by Samuel & Bella Spewack
- 'The Orchard Walls' by R F Delderfield