List of productions of the University of Canterbury Drama Society

This article contains a list of productions staged by the University of Canterbury Drama Society, from most to least recent, with authors and directors, if known. The list is not complete, with the most obvious gap in information being between the years of 1969 and 1991. If anyone has knowledge of what DramaSoc did during this period, please add this information to the article.
2009
*' - long-form improv (dir. Scott Koorey)
*Mojo Mickybo - by Owen McCafferty (dir. Erin Harrington)
2008
*That Comedy Show - improvised and stand-up comedy (dir. Jeff Clark)
*The Graduate - Harry Gibson, adapted from the book by Charles Webb and the film by Mike Nichols (dir. Emma Cusdin & Hamish Parkinson)
*Othello - William Shakespeare (dir. Todd Dixon)
*"3some" - Various authors
2007
*Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (dir. Ben Allan)
*' - Terry Johnson, adapted from the book by Irvine Welsh (dir. Rob Tilby & Helen Prior)
*3some with 4play - Various authors
2006
*3some - Various authors
*Courting Temptation - Written and Directed by David Allen
2005
*The Frogs - Aristophanes (rewritten and directed by Brendon Bennetts)
*The Tempest - Shakespeare (dir. Scott Koorey)
*Delusion of Darkness - Steve Patterson (dir. Erin Harrington)
*3some - Various authors
2004
*Lysistrata - Aristophanes (adapted by Scott Koorey from a translation by George Theodoridis; directed by Koorey & Karen Healey)
*' - Lewis Carroll, adapted (and directed) by Lisa Norriss
*3some with 4play - Various authors
2003
*Hybrid Pilfer - Various authors (dir. Lisa Norriss)
*Romeo & Juliet - Shakespeare (dir. Karen Healey & Andrew Johnson)
*Cosi - Louis Nowra (dir. Christina Stachurski)
*One Night Stand - Various authors (dir. various)
*3some with 4play - Various authors
2002
*Fou - improvised
*Raiders of the Lost Script - devised and directed by Andrew Johnson and Jeff Clark
*Richard III - Shakespeare (dir. Melanie Camp)
*3some - Various authors
2001
*Twelfth Night - Shakespeare (dir. Erin Harrington)
*Popcorn - Ben Elton (dir. Jonathan Hodge)
*3some - Various authors
2000
*Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare (dir. Aaron Boyce)
*The Crucible - Arthur Miller (dir. Natasha Gunn)
*That Improv Show - Improvised
*Suite - Various authors
1999
*A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare (dir. Melanie Camp & Scott Koorey)
*Lovelock's Dream Run - David Geary (dir. Louisa James)
*Carthaginians - Frank McGuinness (dir. Melanie Camp)
1998
*Ophelia Thinks Harder - Jean Betts and William Shakespeare (dir. Melanie Camp)
*Daughters of Heaven - Michelanne Forster (dir. Louisa James & Stephen Brinkhurst)
*The Hangman - Joseph Musaphia (dir. Natasha Gunn)
1997
*Casina, or, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Wedding - Plautus (dir. Kirk Moore)
*The Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare (dir. Kate Hindin)
*The Paper Creche - Chris Girdler (dir. Chris Girdler)
*An Inspector Calls - J. B. Priestley (dir. Kate Coleman)
1996
*Seedgrown - Sarah Axcel
*High on Play - Chris Girdler (dir. Chris Girdler)
*Antigone - Sophocles (dir. Lucette Hindin)
*An Echo of My Trance - Simon Gibson
1995
*Badjelly the Witch - Spike Milligan (dir. Lucette Hindin & Andrew Johnson)
*Ngaio's Will - Various authors (dir. various)
1994
*Shakespeare Who? - Shakespeare excerpts
*Ectopia - Sarah Axcell
*Road - Jim Cartwright (dir Chris Boje)
1993
*Lysistrata - Aristophanes
1990-1991
*Unknown (Society in recess 1991)
1989
* Still Life by Emily Mann, dir Mark Mullen
* The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht trans. John Willett, dir June Harvest.
* Huis Clos by Jean Paul Satre (dir. J. Edward Davis)
* Playlunch series, including:
** Futurian! About Klebnikhov (devised and dir. Bea Cheer)
** Play School (devised and dir. Steven Arnold)
** The Audition (written and dir. Kirstyn Peterson).
** Henry X part VIII by Michael Green (dir. Michael Dickison).
** Blood of the Lamb (excerpts) by Bruce Mason (dir. Steven Arnold).
** Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet (dir. Matt Gould).
** Line, by Israel Horowitz (dir. Caroline Stacey).
** Quintana by Blair French (dir. Mark Mullen).
* The Trojan Women, by Euripides, trans and dir. Robin Bond. (co-production with University drama dept.)
1988
* Out of the Flying Pan and Mutatis Mutandis by David Campton. (Dir. Michael Dickison) State Trinity Theatre.
* The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertold Brecht (dir. Barry Empson).
*After the Rain - John Griffith Bowen
1951
*The Rose without a Thorn - Clifforn Bax
*Kate Kennedy - Gordon Bottomly
1950
*The Old Man of the Mountains - Norman Nicholson
*The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare
1949
*Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe
*Bottom's Dream - Bob Gormack
*The Corridors of the Soul - Nikolai Evreinov
*Salomé - Oscar Wilde
*Everyman - anonymous
*A Phoenix Too Frequent - Christopher Fry
*Huis Clos (No Exit) - Jean-Paul Sartre
Australian Tour
Performed at the Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Albert Hall, Canberra, and Union Theatre, Melbourne University
*Othello - Shakespeare (dir. Ngaio Marsh)
*Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello (Dir. Ngaio Marsh)
1948
*The Axe - Allen Curnow
*The Flies - Jean-Paul Sartre
1947
*The Interior - Maurice Maeterlinck
*The Little Man - John Galsworthy
*Saul - Alexander Lernet-Holenia
*Great Catherine - George Bernard Shaw
*A Change for the Worse - James Bridie
*Riders to the Sea - J. M. Synge
*The Way of the World - William Congreve
1946
*What They Say? - James Bridie
*Macbeth - Shakespeare (toured to Auckland & Wellington)
*The Land of Heart's Desire - W.B. Yeats
*The Axe (reading) - Allen Curnow
1945
*Hamlet - Shakespeare (toured to Wellington and Auckland)
*Othello - Shakespeare (toured to Wellington and Auckland)
*The Stepmother - Arnold Bennett (triple bill with the following two plays)
**The Proposal - Anton Chekov
**Symphony in Illusion - J. Wallace Bell
*A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare
*Henry V - Shakespeare
1944
*Hamlet - Shakespeare (toured to Dunedin)
*Othello - Shakespeare (toured to Dunedin)
1943
*Golden Boy - Clifford Odets
*Mirror to Elizabeth - T. C. Morris
*Ceeso - Lord Dunsany
*The Flaw - Cyril Roberts
*Fumed Oak - Noël Coward
*Where's That Bomb? - "Two London Busdrivers"
*Sanseneise Impromptu - Bob Gormack
*Clay - Eric Bradwell
1942
*' - John Pearman
*Trifles - Susan Glaspell
*The Bathroom Tap - Colin Byrd
*The Waxen Man - Mary Reynolds
*The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
1941
*Hands Across the Sea - Noel Coward
*World Without Men - Philip Johnson
*The Mask - H. M. Harwood and F. Tennyson Jesse
*The Bear - Anton Chekov
*Libel - Edward Wooll
*Outward Bound - Sutton Vane
*Unto such Glory - Paul Green
1940
*Ali the Cobbler - Martin Shepherd
*Veiled Menace - Ella Adkins
*Fancy Free - Stanley Houghton
*Denouement - Leonard J. Hines
*Two Gentlemen of Soho - A. P. Hebert
*Quality Street - J. M. Barrie
*The Man in Half-Moon Street - Barre Lyndon
*The Dear Departed - Stanley Houghton
*Anti-clocwise - Muriel & Sydney Box
*The Stepmother - Arnold Bennett
*The Young Idea - Noel Coward
1939
*Paradise Enow - James Bridie
*Official Announcement - Eleanor Elder
*Punch and Go - John Galsworthy
*Suppressed Desires - Susan Glaspell
*X=O - John Drinkwater
*Sunday Costs Five Pesos - Josephina Niggli
*A Well Remembered Voice - J. M. Barrie
1938
*The Lady from the Sea - Henrik Ibsen
1937
*A Marriage Proposal - Anton Chekov
*Dangerous Corner - J. B. Priestley
*Hay Fever - Noel Coward
*Half an Hour - J. M. Barrie
*Duet in Floodlight - J. B. Priestley
*For Services Rendered - Somerset Maugham
*Moonshine - Arthur Hopkins
*The Crystal - Thomas Turner
*The Mask - H. M. Harwood and F. Tennyson Jesse
*Weatherwise - Noel Coward
*Masses and Man - Ernst Toller
1936
*Arms and the Man - G. B. Shaw
*Night Must Fall - Emlyn Williams
*Cupboard Love - Eliot Crawshay Williams
*' - John Pearmain
*The Glittering Gate - Lord Dunsany
*I Gioconda - Patricia Saunders
*Witch's Brew - Dorothy Macardle
*Easter Evening - Edward & Theodosia Thompson
*The Warrior's Husband - Julian Thompson
*Augustus in Search of a Father - Harold Chapin
*Twentieth Century Lullaby - Cedric Mount
*Macbeth - Shakespeare
*The Bear - Chekov
*Love in the Ape House - F. Sladen Smith
1935
*Murder Trial - Sydney Box
*Villa for Sale - Sacha Guitry
*X=O - John Drinkwater
*Ariadne or 'Business First - A.A. Milne
*Catherine Parr - Maurice Baring
*The Hordle Poacher - Bernard Gilbert
*A Farewell Supper - Arthur Schnitzler
*There's Always Juliet - John Van Druten
*Spinsters of Lushe
*Trifles - Susan Glaspell
*Relief Workers - Dorothy Maginess
*Get Out of Your Cage - Mary Plowman
*E & OE - eliot Crawshay Williams
*When the Whirlwind Blows - Essex Dane
*The Small Hour - Barrington Gates
*Women at War - Edward Percy
*Symphony in illusion - James Wallace Bell
*Twelfth Night - Shakespeare
*Suppressed Desires - Susan Glaspell
*The Sister's Tragedy - Richard Hughes
*Exit Sir Derek - Henrey Jellet & Ngaio Marsh
1934
*The Happy Journey to Trenton & Camden - Thornton Wilder
*Becky Sharp - Olive Conway
*' - Arthur Schnitzler
1933
*The Stoker - Harold Brighouse
*The Constant Lover - St John Hankin
*Such Things Only Happen in Books - Thornton Wilder
*Godstowe Nunnery - Laurence Binyon
*A Marriage Has Been Arranged - Alfred Sutro
*Eldorado - Bernard Gilbert
*Reunion - John Deane
*Post Mortem - unknown
1932
*Riders to the Sea - J. M. Synge
*The Sun - John Galsworthy
*Wind o' the Moors - L. du Garde Peach
*Fame and the Poet - Lord Dunsany
*Pierrot in Hospital - Gilbert Cannan
*Relief Workers - Dorothy Maginness
*Hanrahan's Oath - Lady Gregory
*The Maker of Dreams - Oliphant Down
*The Loevly Miracle - Philip Johnson
*Michael - Miles Malleson
*The Shadow of the Glen - J. M. Synge
*Legend - Philip Johnson
*Cloudbreak - A. O. Roberts
*Pan in Pimlico - Helen Simpson
*X=O - John Drinkwater
*Suppressed Desires - Susan Glaspell
*The Storm - John Drinkwater
*The Matter of Husbands - Ferenc Molnar
*In the Park - Gilbert Cannan
*The Spartan Girl - A. J. Talbot
1930
*Woman's Honour - Susan Glaspell
*Hallmarked - John Galsworthy
*Lonesome-Like - Harold Brighouse
*For Love of Appin - Alan Mulgan
*The Man on the Kerb - Alfred Sutro
*The House With the Twisty Windows - Mary Pakington
1929
*The Twelve Pound Look - J. M. Barrie
*The Man in the Bowler Hat - A. A. Milne
*The Philosopher of Butterbiggins - Harold Chapin
*The Locked Chest - John Masefield
*A Night at an Inn - Lord Dunsany
*The Sister's Tragedy - Richard Hughes
1928
*The Queen of Cornwall - Thomas Hardy
1927
*The Devil's Disciple - G.B.Shaw
*Good Friday - John Masefield
*The Cat and the Cherub - C.B. Fernald
1926
*The Devil's Disciple - G.B. Shaw (toured to Rangiora, Ashburton and Timaru)
1923
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1922
*The Man of Destiny - G.B. Shaw<ref name="strange" />
1921
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