Productions

Current Production

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Recent Productions

We do our best to offer the most varied possible programme from popular comedies to the classics – we welcome and encourage directors who are keen to explore ground-breaking contemporary pieces.

Production Archive

Below is a list of our many and varied past performances going back well over 60 years. Our aim is to constantly provide as wide a programme as possible that caters for both better known productions as well as providing a platform to Directors keen on exploring adventurous and creative modern theatre.

2023 – 2024

  • A Life Of Galileo

2021 – 2022

  • A Christmas Carol (Patrick Barlow adaptation)

2020 – 2021

  • A Christmas Carol

2018 – 2019

  • A Bolt From The Blue
  • Bothered and Bewildered
  • Going Green

2017 – 2018

  • Christmas Thieves
  • Ladies in Lavender
  • The Regina Monologues
  • Four Weddings and an Elvis

2016 – 2017

  • Ladies Day
  • The Man Who Came To Dinner
  • Run For Your Wife

2015 – 2016

  • A Man for All Seasons
  • Fawlty Towers
  • The Cat and the Canary

2014 – 2015

  • The Ladykillers
  • Christmas Assorted

2012 – 2013

  • It’s a Wonderful Life
  • Alice in Wonderland & Alice Through the Looking Glass
  • Dad’s Army

2011 – 2012

  • Animal Farm
  • ‘Allo ‘Allo

2010 – 2011

  • Jekyll and Hyde
  • Comedy of Errors

2009 – 2010

  • A Child’s Christmas in Wales
  • The Laramie Project,
  • Dinner

2008 – 2009

  • Daytime Television
  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream  

2007 – 2008

  • Lady in the Van
  • ‘Allo ‘Allo
  • The Room

2005 – 2006

  • The Rape of Lucrece
  • Failed Investments
  • The Hollow Crown
  • Caged Birds

2004 – 2005

  • Christmas Noel
  • The Birthday Party 

2003 – 2004

  • Absurd Person Singular
  • The Bear
  • Three Cheers for Mrs Butler
  • Bermondsey
  • The Last Yankee 

2002 – 2003

  • Our Country’s Good  

2001 – 2002

  • Rumours
  • Me and My Girl  

2000 – 2001

  • Wind in The Willows
  • Death and the Maiden    

1999 – 2000

  • Stepping Out
  • Relative Values

1998 – 1999 

  • Blood Brothers
  • Real Inspector Hound/Victims of Duty
  • Racing Demon

1997 -1998

  • Black Comedy
  • Effie’s Burning
  • What The Butler Saw
  • The Orchestra

1996 – 1997

  • Amadeus, Dick Whittington
  • The Odd Couple (female version)

1995 – 1996

  • Happy as a Sandbag
  • Summer’s Day Dream
  • Hay Fever

1994 – 1995

  • Habeas Corpus
  • Festival of one act plays
  • Rutherford & Sons

1993 – 1994

  • The Royal Baccarat Scandal
  • On the Razzle
  • But Yesterday

1992 – 1993

  • Pack of Lies
  • Harlequinade/See if I Care, Why Me?

1991 – 1992

  • Nightwatch
  • Masterblend
  • Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime

1990 – 1991

  • The Dresser
  • Murder of Maria Marten
  • Festival of One Act Plays
  • Aladdin

1989 – 1990

  • Loot, Under Milk Wood
  • The Ruling Class

And further back…

The Ember Players put on their first production in the 1950’s and have been performing ever since with an ever growing and changing cast of actors and help behind the scenes, Some of our most well-known and well-loved productions between 1950 – 1980 include; A Passage To India, Oh! What a Lovely War, Pygmalion, Sweeney Todd and Cabaret to name but a few.