| Year |
Play |
Location |
 1792 |
King Richard III |
Brown Cow Cockermouth |
| 1849 |
Cockermouth Amateurs – The Drama of Charles II |
Theatre Loyal, Rubby Banks |
| 1854 |
Four one-act plays: the tragedy, Jane Shore, the farce, Supper For Five,
the comedy, John Bull, and the farce, The Captain Is Not A Miss! |
Sun Inn |
| 1876 |
Cockermouth Christy Minstrels |
Assembly Rooms |
| 1879 |
Cockermouth Entertainment Society - double bill: All a Hoax / The
Virginia Mummy |
Royal Assembly Rooms |
| Cockermouth Christy Minstrels |
Royal Assembly Rooms |
| Cockermouth Entertainment Society double bill – The Harvest Storm and
The Family Feud |
Public Hall |
| 1880 |
Cockermouth Christy Minstrels |
Public Hall |
| 1882 |
Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Society – double bill; Old Soldiers /
Should Meet the Eye (first public performance of CADS) |
Public Hall |
| Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Society – double bill; Parted & The
Mudborough Election |
Public Hall |
| 1884 |
Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Club – double bill; One Hundred
Thousand Pounds & Night at Notting Hill |
|
| Cockermouth Christy Minstrels |
Public Hall |
| 1885 |
Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Club – double bill; All That Glitters Is
Not Gold & Tweedleston's Tail Coat |
Public Hall |
| 1886 |
Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Club – Private Secretary |
|
| 1888 |
Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Club – The Private Secretary |
|
| 1891 |
Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Club – double bill; The Ladies Battle &
Sarah's Young Man |
Public Hall |
| 1893 |
Cockermouth Amateur Minstrel Entertainment |
Public Hall |
| 1904 |
Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Society – Our Boys |
|
| 1905 |
Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Society - double bill; Garrick / Who's
Who |
Public Hall |
| 1906 |
Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Society – double bill; Who's Who? /
Turn Him Out |
The National School |
| The Gitane |
|
| 1907 |
Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Society – The Old Story |
Public Hall |
| 1908 |
Cockermouth Christy Minstrels |
Public Hall |
| 1921 |
CAOS - The Pirates of Penzance |
Grand Theatre |
| 1922 |
CAOS - Mikado |
Grand Theatre |
| CAO&DS - Tilly of Bloomsbury |
Grand Theatre |
| 1923 |
CAOS - Patience |
Grand Theatre |
| CAO&DS - All Of A Sudden Peggy |
Grand Theatre |
| 1924 |
CAOS - The Gondoliers |
Grand Theatre |
| CAOS - A Café Chantant |
Public Hall |
| 1925 |
CAOS - Dorothy |
Grand Theatre |
| 1926 |
CAOS - A Country Girl |
Grand Theatre |
| 1927 |
CAOS - Florodora |
Grand Theatre |
| CAO&DS - Are You A Mason |
Grand Theatre |
| WEA Players - Dear Departed |
|
| WEA Players - The Price of Coal |
|
| 1928 |
CAOS - Miss Hook of Holland |
Grand Theatre |
| CAO&DS - Eliza Comes to Stay |
Grand Theatre |
| WEA Players - Shadow of the Glen |
|
| WEA Players - Double Demon |
|
| WEA Players - Escape |
|
| WEA Players - The Skin Game |
|
| 1929 |
CAOS - Gipsy Love |
Grand Theatre |
| CAO&DS - Paddy the Next Best Thing |
Grand Theatre |
| WEA Players - You Never Can Tell |
|
| WEA Players - Rising Sun |
|
| WEA Players - One Hundred Year’s Old |
|
| 1930 |
CAOS - Toreador |
Grand Theatre |
| WEA Players - Everyman of Every Street |
|
| WEA Players - The Man Who Wouldn’t Go To Heaven |
|
| WEA Players - The Romantic Young Lady |
|
| 1931 |
CAOS - Iolanthe |
Grand Theatre |
| CAO&DS - Lord Richard in the Pantry |
|
| CAOS - Variety Entertainment |
Grand Theatre |
| CAOS - Optimists |
Grand Theatre |
| WEA Players - The Valiant |
|
| WEA Players - Point of View |
|
| WEA Players - The Tragedy of Man |
|
| 1932 |
CAOS - Duchess of Dantzic |
Grand Theatre |
| CAO&DS - The Middle Watch |
Grand Theatre |
| WEA Players - The Theatre |
|
| WEA Players - The Three Wayfarers |
|
| WEA Players - Crime at Blossoms |
|
| 1933 |
CAOS - The Street Singer |
Grand Theatre |
| CAO&DS - Bulldog Drummond |
Grand Theatre |
| WEA Players - Nine Till Six |
|
| WEA Players - Capt Brassbound’s Conversation |
|
| WEA Players - Symphony in Illusion |
|
| 1934 |
CAOS - Tonight's the Night |
Grand Theatre |
| WEA Players - The Whiteheaded Boy |
|
| WEA Players - No Man's Island |
|
| WEA Players - A Long Xmas Dinner |
|
| WEA Players - Romany Road |
|
| WEA Players - Storm in Port |
|
| 1935 |
CAOS - Sally |
Grand Theatre |
| WEA Players - Happy Journey to Trenton and Cambden |
|
| WEA Players - Godstone Nunnery |
|
| WEA Players - Who Killed Me |
|
| WEA Players - The Silver Box |
|
| 1936 |
CAOS - Princess Charming |
Grand Theatre |
| WEA Players - Love and How to Cure It |
|
| WEA Players - Women at War |
|
| WEA Players - Confutation of Wisdom |
|
| 1937 |
CAOS - Memories of the Opera - by past and present members |
Grand Theatre |
| WEA Players - Gap of the Winds |
|
| WEA Players - Herod |
|
| WEA Players - Mystery at Greenfingers |
|
| WEA Players - Boyd’s Shop |
|
| 1938 |
All Saints Pantomime Company - Babes in the Wood |
Town Hall |
| WEA Players - Pygmalion Grand Theatre |
|
| WEA Players - Count Albany |
|
| WEA Players - Spring is in the Air |
|
| WEA Players - The Great Dark |
|
| WEA Players - Broken Fold |
|
| WEA Players - Unnatural Scene |
|
| WEA Players - Tobias and the Angel |
|
| WEA Players - End of the Beginning |
|
| WEA Players - Amazons on Broadway |
|
| 1941 |
All Saints Pantomime Company - Mother Goose |
Grand Theatre |
| WEA Players - Nine Till Six |
|
| WEA Players - If Four Walls Told |
|
| 1943 |
WEA Players - Ladies in Retirement |
|
| Cockermouth Christy Minstrels - Christy Minstrel Revival |
|
| WEA Players - Cradle Song |
|
| 1944 |
WEA Players - The Importance of Being Earnest |
|
| Cockermouth Christy Minstrels – Minstrel and Variety Show |
|
| 1945 |
WEA Players - Tudor Thorns |
|
| WEA Players - Ten Days Before the Wedding |
|
| WEA Players - Silver Cord |
Lorton St Hall |
| WEA Players - Orange Blossom |
Lorton St Hall |
| WEA Players - Her Affairs in Order |
|
| Cockermouth Christy Minstrels – Minstrel and Variety Show |
Grand Theatre |
| WEA Players - Dangerous Corner |
Lorton Street Hall |
| 1946 |
WEA Players - Gaslight |
|
| WEA Players - Double Demon |
|
| WEA Players - The Valiant / Everybody’s Husband |
Rawnsley Hall Keswick |
| 1947 |
WEA Players - I Have Five Daughters |
Christ Church Rooms |
| WEA Players - Dark Brown |
|
| WEA Players - Granite |
|
| 1948 |
WEA Players - Great Day |
|
| WEA Players - Doll's House |
|
| WEA Players - At Mrs Beams |
|
| 1949 |
WEA Players - There’s No Problem |
|
| WEA Players - Excerpts from past productions to mark the 21st Birthday |
Christ Church Rooms |
| WEA Players - The Dear Departed |
|
| 1950 |
WEA Players - Pink String and Sealing Wax |
|
| WEA Players - Give Me Yesterday |
|
| 1951 |
WEA Players - Outward Bound |
|
| WEA Players - The Paragon |
|
| WEA Players - The Happiest Days of Your Life |
|
| 1952 |
Cockermouth Players - The Heiress |
Christ Church Rooms |
| Cockermouth Players - The Poltergeist |
|
| 1953 |
Cockermouth Players - Juno and Paycock |
Town Hall C'mouth |
| |
Theatre Royal Work'ton |
| 1954 |
All Saints' Pantomime Company’s - Goodie Two Shoes |
Grand Theatre |
| Cockermouth Players - Ma Vatch |
|
| Cockermouth Players - Quiet Night |
Christ Church Rooms |
| Cockermouth Players - Haul for the Shore |
Christ Church Rooms |
| 1955 |
Cockermouth Players – Corinth House |
Christ Church Rooms |
| 1956 |
Cockermouth Players - School for Spinsters |
|
| Cockermouth Players - Off The Deep End |
|
| 1957 |
Cockermouth Players - Murder Mistaken |
|
| Cockermouth Players - A Lady Mislaid |
|
| 1958 |
Cockermouth Players - Quiet Weekend |
|
| Cockermouth Players - No Escape |
Christ Church Rooms |
| 1959 |
Cockermouth Players - Sailor Beware |
|
| 1960 |
Cockermouth Players - Sunday Costs Five Pesos / Continental
Customs / Riches and Rags |
Derwent Centre |
| Cockermouth Players - Symphonie Pastororale |
Derwent Centre |
| Cockermouth Players - Ladies in Retirement |
Christ Church Rooms |
| 1965 |
Sadie Cussons Dance School - Cinderella |
Derwent Centre |
| 1966 |
Cockermouth Drama Group - Watch It Sailor |
Derwent Centre |
| Sadie Cussons Dance School - Dick Whittington |
|
| 1967 |
Cockermouth Drama Group - Something to Hide |
Derwent Centre |
| 1968 |
Cockermouth Drama Group - Spring And The Oakleys |
Derwent Centre |
| 1970 |
Experiments in Entertainment - The House of Bernarda Alba / The
Happy Journey |
Derwent Centre |
| 1972 |
Cockermouth Amateur Dramatic Society - A Privy Council / Its Autumn
Now |
All Saints Church Rooms |
| 1973 |
Cockermouth Drama Group - Three one act plays Home is the Hunted /
The Witching Hour / Green For Danger |
All Saints Church Rooms |
| 1974 |
Cockermouth Drama Group - Three one act plays Without Portfolio /
White Blackmail / World Without Men |
All Saints Church Rooms |
| Cockermouth Drama Group - Fools Paradise |
|
| 1975 |
Cockermouth Drama Group - The Danger Line |
|
| Cockermouth Drama Group - Rock-a-bye Sailor |
All Saints Church Rooms |
| |
Blue Box Century Theatre |
| 1976 |
Cockermouth Drama Group - Motive for Murder |
All Saints Church Rooms |
| 1977 |
Cockermouth Drama Group - Strike Happy |
All Saints Church Rooms |
| 1981 |
Cockermouth Drama Group - Duet of Two Hands |
All Saints Church Rooms |
| 1984 |
CADS - Christmas Crackers |
Victoria Hall |
| 1985 |
CADS - The Beauty of Buttermere |
Derwent Centre |
| CADS – Pyramus and Thisbe from A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
Cockermouth Castle |
| CADS - The Servant of Two Masters |
Lorton Road Theatre |
| |
Cleator Civic Hall |
| |
Wigton Peel Theatre |
| CADS - Christmas Crackers II |
Victoria Hall |
| 1986 |
CADS - Mixed Doubles |
Lorton Road Theatre |
| CADS - Victorian Evening |
Victoria Hall |
| CADS - Drunkard’s Dilemma |
Keswick School |
| CADS - The Incredible Vanishing … |
Derwent Centre |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| 1987 |
CADS - Abigail’s Party |
Victoria Hall |
| CADS - Hobson’s Choice |
Lorton Road Theatre |
| CADettes Evening |
Lorton Road Theatre |
| CADS - Ah Cruel Fate |
|
| CADS - Educating Rita |
Lorton Road Theatre |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS - The Heartless Princess |
Derwent Centre |
| CADS – Good Old Days |
Keswick School |
| 1988 |
CADS - Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay ! |
Victoria Hall |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS - The Crucible |
Pardshaw Hall |
| CADS - Friday Night Live |
The Office |
| CADS - Ten Times Table |
Globe |
| CADS - 84 Charing Cross Road |
All Saints School |
| CADS - Black Comedy |
Globe |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| 1989 |
CADS - Accrington Pals |
Globe |
| CADS - Mother Courage |
Pardshaw Hall |
| CADS - Habeas Corpus |
Globe |
| CADS - The Dumb Waiter |
Globe |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS -Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswoman's Guild Dramatic
Society presentation of A Christmas Carol |
Globe |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| 1990 |
CADS - A Man For All Seasons |
Globe |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS - Animal Farm |
All Saints School |
| CADS - A Chorus of Disapproval |
Globe |
| CADS - Rose |
Globe |
| CADS - Old Time Music Hall |
Globe |
| 1991 |
CADS - Look Back In Anger |
Globe |
| |
Blue Box Keswick |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS - Twelfth Night |
Globe |
| |
Blue Box Keswick |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS - Jesus Christ Superstar |
Mitchells Auction |
| CADS - The Government Inspector |
Globe |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| 1992 |
CADS – Sheep |
Globe |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS – Measure for Measure |
Globe |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| |
Blue Box Keswick |
| CADS - Living Together |
Globe |
| |
Blue Box Keswick |
| CADS - Jesus Christ Superstar |
Carnegie Workington |
| |
Marvejols France |
| CADS - Waiting for Godot |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS - The Killing of Sister George |
Rosehill Theatre |
| |
Globe |
| 1993 |
CADS - On the Razzle |
Globe |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| |
Stanwix Carlisle |
| CADS - Dracula Spectacula |
Carnegie Workington |
| CADS - Death of a Salesman |
Globe |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS - Accidental Death of an Anarchist |
Globe |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| |
Stanwix Carlisle |
| CADS - The Glory of Love |
Hundith Hill Hotel |
| 1994 |
CADS - Richard III |
Globe |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| |
Stanwix Carlisle |
| CADS - Shakers |
Globe |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS - The Two Of Us |
Globe |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS - Our Day Out |
The Scout Centre |
| CADS - What the Butler Saw |
The Globe |
| |
Rosehill |
| 1995 |
CADS - Much Ado About Nothing |
Kirkgate Centre |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS - My Mother Said I Never Should |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Shirley Valentine |
Kirkgate Centre |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS - Trumpets and Raspberries |
Lakeland Sheep & Wool Centre |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS - Laughing Away The Pain |
Kirkgate Centre |
| 1996 |
CADS - Amadeus |
Kirkgate Centre |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| CADS - Willy Nilly |
Scout Centre |
| |
Edinburgh Fringe |
| CADS - Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - The Alchemist |
Kirkgate Centre |
| |
Rosehill Theatre |
| 1997 |
CADS - Hedda Gabler |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - One For The Road |
Kirkgate Centre |
| 1998 |
CADS - The Cherry Orchard |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - For One Night Only |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Daisy Pulls It Off |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Whistle Down The Wind |
Kirkgate Centre |
| 1999 |
CADS - The Homecoming |
Kirkgate Centre |
| |
Rosehill |
| CADS - A Midsummer Nights Dream |
Kirkgate Centre |
| |
Marvejols France |
| CADS - Entertaining Mr Slone |
Kirkgate Centre |
| |
Rosehill |
| |
Keswick Theatre |
| 2000 |
CADS - Talking Heads |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Jane Eyre |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - A View from the Bridge |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Death and the Maiden |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - When We Are Married |
Kirkgate Centre,
Fletchertown, Dean,
Kirkbampton, Plumbland,
Rosely, St.Bees and
Ravenglass |
| 2001 |
CADS - Talking Heads II |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - She Stoops to Conquer |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Popcorn1 |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Twelfth Night |
Kirkgate Centre |
| |
Marvejols France |
| CADS - Lysistrata |
Kirkgate Centre |
| 2002 |
CADS - Rumpelstilskin |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Blithe Spirit |
Kirkgate Centre,
Keswick Theatre,
Ravenglass,
Rosley,
Plumbland,
St Bees,
Kirkbampton |
| CADS - Chase Me Up Farndale Avenue S'il Vous Plaít |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Starlight Express |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Dancing at Lughnasa |
Kirkgate Centre |
| 2003 |
CADS - Cinderella |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - The Vagina Monologues |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Outside Edge |
Kirkgate Centre,
Ravenglass, Caldbeck,
Mawbray,
Keswick Theatre |
| 2004 |
CADS - Jack and the Beanstalk |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - The Vagina Monologues |
Stanwix Carlisle |
| |
Keswick Theatre |
| CADS - Get Up And Tie Your Fingers |
Kirkgate Centre |
| 2005 |
CADS - Dick Whittington |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - On the Couch with Bridgitte and Trudy |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - How The Other Half Loves |
Kirkgate Centre,
Ravenglass, Caldbeck,
Mawbray,
Keswick Theatre |
| 2006 |
CADS - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Christmas Carol |
Kirkgate Centre |
| 2007 |
CADS - The Dresser |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Absolute Turkey |
Kirkgate Centre,
Ravenglass, Caldbeck,
Mawbray |
| 2008 |
CADS - Thick As A Brick |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - The Memory of Water |
Kirkgate Centre |
| 2009 |
CADS - Aladdin |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Just Between Ourselves |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - April in Paris |
Kirkgate Centre |
| 2010 |
CADS - Babes in the Wood |
Kirkgate Centre |
| CADS - Noises Off |
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