BLACKBURN DRAMA CLUB WAS FOUNDED IN 1944 AND, IN 2019, CELEBRATED ITS 75TH ANNIVERSARY. SEE BELOW ALL OF OUR PRODUCTIONS TO DATE.

1944

Gaslight

The Torch Bearers

Ghosts

 

1944-45

Robert’s Wife

When We Are Married

The Silver Cord

Tobias and the Angel

 

1945-46

Star in Eclipse

Candida

The Two Mrs Carrolls

 

1946-47

While the Sun shines

The Little

Foxes

Watch on the Rhine

 

1947-48

The Women

Rope

The Light of Heart

See How They Run

The Ranks of Tuscany

Dance of Atonement

 

1948-49

The Skin game

Time and the Conways

Duet for Two Hands

The Father

 

1948-49

Miranda

Made in Heaven

They Walk Alone

The Lady from Edinburgh

Twentieth Century Lullaby

A Marriage Has Been Disarranged

The Voe is Blue

 

1950-51

The Chiltern Hundreds

Message for Margaret

The Sacred Flame

The Cure for Love

 

1951-52

Little Lambs Eat Ivy

Mrs Moonlight

Rain on the Just

By Candle Light

Ladies in Retirement

 

1953-54

Don’t Listen Ladies

Laura

Ring Round the Moon

Too Clever for Love

Corinth House

 

1954-55

Love in Idleness

Dark Summer

Relative Values

Love’s a Luxury

 

1955-56

Affairs of State

Waters of the Moon

The Noble Spaniard

The Gift

 

1955-57

The Happy Marriage

A Question of Fact

Someone Waiting

The Happy Prisoner

 

1957-58

The Whole Truth

Book of the Month

All for Mary

Uncertain Joy

 

1958-59

Heaven and Charing Cross

Dear Charles

Rose Without a Thorn

Sailor Beware

 

1959-60

Treasure Hunt

The Secret Tent

Red Letter Day

Wind of Heaven

 

1960-61

Running Riot

The Man Upstairs

The Witch

Nude with Violin

 

1961-62

My Flesh, My Blood

Break Out

Mary Stuart

Wolf’s Clothing

 

1962-63

My Three Angels

Flowering Cherry

The Innocents

Roar Like a Dove

 

1963-64

The Amorous Prawn

The Return

Blithe Spirit

Billy Liar

 

1964-65

Dear Delinquent

Trespass

Trial and Error

Rape of the Belt

 

1965-66

Semi-Detached

The Lark

Doctor in the House

Rebecca

 

1966-67

The Wooden Dish

Present Laughter

Trap for a Lonely Man

 

1967-68

Dock Brief and Resounding Tinkle

Simon and Laura

The Heiress

All in Good Time

 

1968-69

Barefoot in the Park

Double Image

The Chalk Garden

The Love Match

 

1969-70

This Was a Woman

Love and Kisses

The House on the Cliff

Hindle Wakes

 

1970-71

Shadow in the Sun

Relatively Speaking

The Match Maker

Make Me a Widow

 

1971-72

All Things Bright and beautiful

Settled Out of Court

Let’s All Go Down the Strand

The Diary of Anne Frank

 

1972-73

Wild Goose Chase

Who Killed Santa Claus?

Hobson’s Choice

The Anniversary

 

1973-74

Johnny Belinda

Wait Until Dark

Celebration

Duet for Two Hands

 

1974-75

How the Other Half Loves

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

A Policy of Love

 

1975-76

Love on the Dole

Persons Unknown

The Price

Gaslight

 

1976-77

Ann Veronica

Accolade

Move Over. Mrs Markham

Dangerous Corner

 

1977-78

The Crucible

Woman in a Dressing Gown

The Killing of Sister George

Nude with Violin

 

1978-79

Murder with Love

Zack

Rookery Nook

Separate Tables

 

1979-80

Come Blow Your Horn

Time and the Conways

Murder at the Vicarage

I’m Talking About Jerusalem

 

1980-81

Oh, What a Lovely War

The Farm

Bedroom Farce

Pygmalion

 

1981 -82

The Winslow Boy

Death on the Nile

Shut Your Eyes and Think of England

Saturday Night at the Crown

 

1982-83

Cat Among the Pigeons

Bell, Book and Candle

Ring Round the Moon

Murder Mistaken

 

1983-84

Accrington Pals

The Happiest of the Three

Say Goodnight to Grandma

Outside Edge

 

1984-85

Therese

When We Are Married

 

1985-86

Table Manners

Music Hall

Born in the Gardens

Spring and Port Wine

 

1986-87

The Shop at Sly Corner

Music Hall

Season’s Greetings

Bonny Brid

 

1987-88

Hobson’s Choice

An Inspector Calls

Move Over, Mrs. Markham

Music Hall

 

1988-89

Hindle Wakes

Fur Coat and No Knickers

Death of a Salesman

 

1989-90

All in Good Time

The Glass Menagerie

The Day After the Fair

 

1990-91

Hay Fever

A Christmas Carol

Blood Brothers

 

1991-92

A Doll’s House

Noises Off

Abigail’s Party

 

1992-93

The Crucible

Blithe Spirit

Beyond Reasonable Doubt

 

1993-94

Music Hall

Breezeblock Park

The Importance of Being Earnest

 

1994-95

Charlie’s Aunt

A Taste of Honey

Habeas Corpus

 

1995-96

The Lion in Winter

Happy Families

Pack of Lies

 

1996-97

Billy Liar

Racing Demon

They Came From Mars…

 

1997-98

Touch and Go

Present From the Past

Who’s Life Is It Anyway?

 

1998-99

Confusions

Passion Killers

The Anniversary

 

1999-2000

House Guest

Shakers

Journey’s End

 

2000-2001

Bouncers

The Chalk Garden

Wildest Dreams

 

2001-02

Herbal Bed

Cash on Delivery

The Memory of Water

 

2002-03

Sense and Sensibility

Bouncers

Brassed Off

Nude with Violin

 

2003-04

Trivial Pursuits

Man for All Seasons

An Evening with Gary Linekar

Night Must Fall

 

2004-05

Playhouse Creatures

Caught in the Net

Two Planks and a Passion

Beyond a Joke

April in Paris

 

2005-06

The Diary of Anne Frank

Brimstone and Treacle

Black Comedy

A Chorus of Disapproval

 

2006-07

Neville’s Island

Hobson’s Choice

Fur Coat and No Knickers

The Heiress

 

2007-08

Abigail’s Party

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

Don’t Dress for Dinner

The Matchmaker

Shearer or Me

 

2008-09

And a Nightingale Sang

Maria Marten or Murder in the Red Barn

Inspector Drake and the Perfekt Crime

The Ladykillers

 

2009-10

 Tom, Dick and Harry

A Christmas Carol

Outside Edge

The Winslow Boy

 

2010-11

Love’s a Luxury

Separate Tables

Funny Money

Bedroom Farce

 

2011-12

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Salt of the Earth

Key for Two

Stringer’s Last Stand

 

2012-13

Farndale Avenue Murder Mystery

‘Allo ‘Allo

Brontë

The English Game

 

2013-14

Blood Brothers

Mr Wonderful

Breaking the Code

Role Play

 

2014-15

Duets

Habeas Corpus

Humble Boy

Ladies’ Day

 

2015-16

Twelfth Night

Bolt from the Blue

If I Were You

The Graduate

 

2016-17

Theft

A View From the Bridge

Teechers

Boeing Boeing

Address Unknown

 

2017-18

Fur Coat and No Knickers

Spider’s Web

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice

Are You Being Served?

 

2018-19

The Vicar of Dibley

Brassed Off

My Mother Said I Never Should

The Importance of Being Earnest

 

2019-20

One Man, Two Guv’nors

The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband

 

2021-22

Loot

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Steamie

Dirty Dusting

 

2022-23

Hangmen

Goodnight Mister Tom

Jane Eyre

They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay

 

2023-24

Sheila’s Island

And Then There Were None

The Railway Children

Nell Gwynn