Year 

Title

Author

Director

1950

When We are Married

JB Priestly

Joan Ross

Candied Peel

Falkland Carey

Billie Kenderdine

I Four Walls Told

Edward Percy

N.A.

1951

Mystery at Greenfingers

J.B. Priestly

Billie Kenderdine

Here Under Heaven

Mona Brand

Team effort

1952

The Sacred Flame

Somerset Maugham

Percy Wills

Three in a Room

Antonia White

Billie Kenderdine

Castle in the Air

Alan Melville

Sue Martin

The Happiest Days of Your Life

John Dighton

Joan Ross

1953

Travellers' Joy

Arthur Macrea

Bille Kenderdine

The Paragon

R & M Pertwee

Harry Wills

The Giaconda Smile

Aldous Huxley

N.A.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

G Kaufman & M Hart

John Dolby

1954

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

Alex Perrin

French Without Tears

Terence Rattigan

Doreen Hill

Rope

Patrick Hamilton

Harry Wills

Ways and Means

Festival Play

N.A.

Blithe Spirit

Noel Coward

John Dolby

1955

The Late Christopher Bean

Emlyn Williams

Joan Ross

My Sister Eileen

J Fields & J Chodorov

Billie Kenderdine

Bonaventure

Charlotte Hastings

Sue Martin

Charley's Aunt

Brandon Thomas

Billie Kenderdine

I Killed the Count

Alec Coppel

Eileen Folliott

An Evening of Plays & Music

Various

N.A.

1956

Fresh Fields

Ivor Novello

Hilary LePage

Playbill - Harlequinade &
The Browning Version

Terence Rattigan

Alex Perrin, Lloyd Averitt

Dial M for Murder

Frederick Knott

Joan Ross

Worm's Eye View

Ron Delderfield

Harry Wills

Gentle Like a Dove

Festival Play

N.A.

Love's a Luxury

G Paxton & E Hoile

Billie Kenderdine

1957

Winter Sunshine

Geoffrey Thomas

Hilary LePage

When We Were Married

JB Priestly

Joan Ross

The Facts of Life

Roger MacDougall

Doreen Hill

Arsenic & Old Lace

Joseph Kesselring

Tom Theodosiou

Family Album

Festival Play

N.A.

Anastasia

Marcel Maurette

Sue Martin

1958

We Have Our Dreams

Dulcie Dunlop Ladds

Hilary LePage

As Long As They're Happy

Vernon Sylvane

Tom Theodosiou

Come Back, Little Sheba

William Inge

Doreen Hill

The Shop at Sly Corner

Edward Percy

Billie Kenderdine

Davy Jones Diner

Festival Play

N.A.

1959

The Women Have Their Way

S & J Quintaro

Joan Ross

Witness for the Prosecution

Agatha Christie

Billie Kenderdine

The Reluctant Debutante

William Douglas Home

Hillary Bloyce

Summer and Smoke

Tennessee Williams

Gerda Pinter

Becomes Gold Coast Little Theatre

1960

The Chalk Garden

Enid Bagnold

Doreen Hill

Born Yesterday

Garson Kannin

Ian Kraitzer

No, No Nanette

Vincent Youmans

Abby Hood

Doctor in the House

Ted Willis

Ian Kraitzer

The Devil His Due

Festival Play

N.A.

1961

The Sunshine Girl

Paul A Rubens & Cecil Raleigh

Abby Hood

Hotel Paradiso

Feydeau & Desvallieres

Gerda Pinter

Waiting for Gillian

Ronald Millar

Doreen Hill

Oklahoma!

Rodgers & Hammerstein

Billie Kenderdine

The Tender Trap

M Schulman & RB Smith

Ian Kraitzer

1962

Wanted One Body

Raymond Dyer

Hilary Bloyce

South Pacific

Rodgers & Hammerstein

Vic Kraitzer

One Wild Oat

Vernon Sylvaine

Veda Rutherford

The Trial of Mary Duggan

Bayard Veiller

Gerda Pinter

Dark Brown & Golden Axe

Festival Plays

N.A.

1963

Separate Tables

Terence Rattigan

Veda Rutherford

Rose Marie

Brach & Hammerstein

Billie Kenderdine

See How They Run

Philip King

Hilary Bloyce

The Mask and the Face

Luigi Chiarelli

Jacki Codd

1964

Death Takes a Holiday

Alberto Casella

Gerda Pinter

Show Boat

Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II

Vic Kraitzer

One Act Play Season

N.A.

N.A.

1965

The Lady's Not for Burning

Christopher Fry

Donagh McDonagh

Charley's Aunt

Brandon Thomas

Hilary Bloyce

The Private Ear & the Public Eye

Peter Shaffer

Ian Kraitzer

Aladdin & His Wonderful Lamp

N.A.

Billie Whyte

1966

You Can't Take It With You

M Hart & G Kaufman

Vic Kraitzer

Maritza

Stanley & Kalman

Letitia Gordon Wickins

Quiet Weekend

Esther McCracken

Hilary Bloyce

Semi-Detached

David Turner

Ian Kraitzer

An Evening with Gilbert & Sullivan

Ernie Taylor, Billie Whyte & others

1967

Ned Kelly

N.A.

N.A.

Two Dozen Red Roses

Kenneth Horne

Gerda Pinter

Night Must fall

Emlyn Williams

Ian Kraitzer

Tom Jones

Joan Macalpine

John Trevor

1968

The Admirable Crichton

James Barrie

Gerda Pinter

Carousel

Rodgers & Hammerstein

Billie Whyte

The Hostage

Brendan Behan

Peter Cousins

1969

Dirty Work at the Crossroads

Bill Johnson

Peter Cousins

Boeing Boeing

Marc Camoletti

Barbara Whitt

Tea and Sympathy

Robert Anderson

Margaret Pearce

Opening of Old Theatre (Molly's) for productions

1970

Three one act plays

Eugene Ionesco

N.A.

I've Come About the Assassination

Tony Morphett

Mary Diehl

Loot

Joe Orton

N.A.

1971

Playboy of the Western World

John Synge

Peter Cousins

Act In

Tuition

John Trevor

1972

Busy Body

Jack Popplewell

N.A.

Marriage Go Round

N.A.

N.A.

1973

Butterflies Are Free

Leonard Gershe

N.A.

The Birthday Party

Harold Pinter

N.A.

1974

Come Blow Your Horn

Neil Simon

Robert Eastgate

Come Back Little Sheba

William Inge

Coralie Hartney

The Killing of Sister George

Frank Marcus

Holly Langford

The Lion in Winter

James Goldman

Robert Eastgate

Plaza Suite

Neil Simon

Production Committee

1975

The Gazebo

Alex Cappel

Tony Butler

Mary, Mary

Jean Kerr

Molly Leggett

Wait Until Dark

Frederick Knott

David McLean

Barefoot in the Park

Neil Simon

Robert Eastgate

1976

Trap for a Lonely Man

Robert Charles

Hugo Bruck

There's A Girl in My Soup

Terence Frisby

Holly Langford

I'll Get My Man

Philip King

N.A.

Separate Tables

Terence Rattigan

Norma Goldner

A Man for All Seasons

Robert Bolt

Robert Eastgate

1977

The Spider's Web

Agatha Christie

Molly Leggett

Move Over, Mrs Markham

R Cooney & J Chapman

Maurice Glasman

An Inspector Calls

JB Priestly

Julanne Shearer

The Chalk Garden

Enid Bagnold

Molly Leggett

1978

Accommodations

Nick Hall

Norma Goldner

A Shot in the Dark

Harry Kurnitz & Marcel Achard

N.A.

The Anniversary

Bill McIlwraith

Molly Leggett

Cactus Flower

Abe Burrows

Julanne Shearer

The Heiress

RA Goetz

Kurt Lerps

1979

There Goes the Bride

R Cooney & J Chapman

Leon Knox

The House on the Cliff

George Batson

Molly Leggett

Conduct Unbecoming

Barry England

Julanne Shearer

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

Holly Langford

How the Other Half Loves

Alan Ayckbourn

Kurt Lerps

1980

The Odd Couple

Neil Simon

Brian Wilson

Hobson's Choice

Harold Brighouse

Norma Goldner

Hay Fever

 Noel Coward

Ross Frickman

The Medium

Gian-Carlo Menotti

Julanne Shearer

Night Watch

Lucille Fletcher

Molly Leggett

The Rainmaker

Richard Nash

Julanne Shearer

Inaugural Gold Coast Drama Festival

1981

The Ghost Train

Arnold Ridley

Dorothy Henderson

Bus Stop

William Inge

Ross Frickman

Middle Age Spread

Roger Hall

Maurice Glasman

The Bad Seed

Maxwell Anderson

Molly Leggett

Second Gold Coast Drama Festival

1982

Ten Little Niggers

Agatha Christie

Jason Ingram Roth

Star Spangled Girl

Neil Simon

Brian Wilson

The Homecoming

Harold Pinter

Joyce Grant

The Man Most Likely

Joyce Rayburn

Julie Withers

The Removalists

David Williamson

Barry Gibson

1983

California Suite

Neil Simon

Jason Ingram Roth

Suddenly At Home

Francis Durbridge

Dorothy Henderson

Opening of the New Theatre

The Crucible

Arthur Miller

Julanne Shearer

Fallen Angels

Noel Coward

Helen Ferguson

Our Town

Thornton Wilder

Joan Ross

Hotel Paradiso

Feydeau & Desvallieres

Gerda Pinter

1984

Patrick Pearce Motel

Hugh Leonard

Dorothy Henderson

Rattle of a Simple Man

Charles Dyer

Ross Frickman

Whose Life Is It, Anyway?

Brian Clark

Julanne Shearer

A Far Country

Henry Denker

Kurt Lerps

Breaker Morant

Kenneth Ross

Barry Gibson

Don't Start Without Me

Joyce Rayburn

Helen Ferguson & Leonard Salmi

1985

The Seven Year Itch

George Axelrod

Ross Frickman

The Sleeping Prince

Terence Rattigan

Joan Ross

Habeas Corpus

Alan Bennett

Joyce Grant

Witness for the Prosecution

Agatha Christie

Joy Neilson Stone

Rashomon

Fay & Michael Kanin

Jason Ingram Roth

1986

Cabaret

Masteroff, Ebb & Kander

Julanne Shearer

The Effect of Gamma Rays

Paul Zindel

Joan Ross

Dead Ringer

Charles Ross

Dorothy Henderson

Tangled Webs

Nick Tate

Barry Gibson

Confusions

Alan Ayckbourn

John McWatters

Come Back to the Five & Dime

Ed Graczyk

John Arthars

1987

Urge

John Scholes

Dorothy Henderson

Waiting in the Wings

Noel Coward

Dolores Clifford

Gulls

Robert Hewett

Victor Newcombe & Joan Ross

Chapter Two

Neil Simon

Shaun Thorburn

No Names, No Pack Drill

Bob Herbert

Barry Gibson

Betrayal

Harold Pinter

Kurt Lerps

1988

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Dale Wasserman

Kay McInnes

Bedroom Farce

Alan Ayckbourn

Shaun Thorburn

Miss Reardon Drinks a Little

Paul Zindel

Jason Ingram Roth

Reedy River

Dick Diamond

Julanne Shearer

First Class Women

Nick Enright

Joyce Grant

Sleuth

Anthony Shaffer

Dorothy Henderson

1989

Travelling North

David Williamson

Kay McInnes

Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller

James Wallace

After Dark

Dion Boucicault

Barry Gibson

Laura

V Caspary & G Sklar

Dorothy Henderson

Norman, Is That You?

S Bobrick & R Clark

Shaun Thorburn

Doctor In The House

Ted Willis

Dolores Clifford

1990

Carnival

Michael Stewart

Gerda Pinter

Sherlock's Last Case

Charles Marowitz

Barry Gibson

Salonika

Louise Page

Victor Newcombe

No Sex, Please, We're British

A Marriott & A Foot

Dorothy Henderson

Last of the Red Hot Lovers

Neil Simon

Brian Wilson

My Three Angels

Sam & Bella Spewack

Trevor Love

1991

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Jay Presson Allen

Brian Wilson & Joan Ross

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

Kurt Lerps

Pardon Me, Prime Minister

Ray Cooney

Dorothy Henderson

The Elephant Man

Bernard Pomerance

Dolores Clifford & Alistair Beer

One act play season

N.A.

N.A.

The Anniversary

Bill McIlwraith

Del Halpin & James Wallace

1992

84 Charing Cross Road

Helene Hanff

John Rees-Osborne

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Julie Shearer

Look Who's Talking

Derek Benfield

Barry Gibson

Orphans

Lyle Kessler

James Wallace

One act play season

N.A.

N.A.

Season's Greetings

Alan Ayckbourn

Kay McInnes

1993

Busy Body

Jack Popplewell

Steven Tandy

The Lion In Winter

James Goldman

Lynn McPherson

Private Lives

Noel Coward

Victor Newcombe

One act play season

N.A.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Adaptation by Tim Kelly

Dorothy Henderson

The Abdication of QEII

Mark Stow Smith

Alan Ingram

Sleeping Beauty

Charles Perrault

Alan Ingram

1994

The Night of the Iguana

Tennessee Williams

 Steven Tandy

Top Silk

David Williamson

Alistair Beer

Hobson's Choice

Harold Brighouse

Marion Parry

One act play season

N.A.

N.A.

Caught in the Act

Trevor Cowper

Janis Sheen

1995

Brighton Beach Memoirs

Neil Simon

Lee Bowers

Ring Round the Moon

Jean Anouilh

John Rees-Osborne

Noises Off

Michael Frayn

Joan Stalker-Brown

One act play season

N.A.

N.A.

The Children's Hour

Lillian Hellman

Naomi Middlebrook

A Christmas Carol

Adapted from Charles Dickens

Kay McInnes

1996

Rough Crossing

Tom Stoppard

 Lynn McPherson

Death and the Maiden

Ariel Dorfman

Lynn McPherson

Wuthering Heights

Adapted from Emily Bronte

Kurt Lerps

Guys and Dolls

Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows

Julanne Shearer

One act play season

N.A.

N.A.

Falling From Grace

Hannie Rayson

Anne Coombe

1997

Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Dario Foe

James Henry

Billy Liar

K Waterhouse & W Hall

Marion Parry

Hotel Sorrento

Hannie Rayson

Janis Sheen

One act play season

N.A.

N.A.

Biloxi Blues

Neil Simon

Lee Bowers

Daylight Saving

Nick Enright

Deslye Kruck

1998

Communicating Doors

Alan Ayckbourn

Lynn McPherson

Lost In Yonkers

Neil Simon

Jane Irvine

Money & Friends

David Williamson

Janis Sheen & Anne Coombe

One act play season

N.A.

N.A.

Someone who'll Watch Over Me

Frank McGuinness

Julanne Shearer

The Three Musketeers

Adapted by Willis Hall from Alexander Dumas

Lynne McPherson & Marion Parry

1999

Lipstick Dreams

Helen O'Connor & Simon Hopkinson

Leo Mevissen & Janis Sheen

Camelot

Lerner & Lowe

Julanne Shearer

Remembrance

Graham Reid

Jim Dickson

One act play season

N.A.

N.A.

Broadway Bound

Neil Simon

Lee Bowers

Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Sue Townsend

Marion Parry

Golden Anniversary Year

Old theatre re-opened as Molly's (The Molly Leggett Auditorium)

2000

Cocktails with Noel & Gertie (Molly's)

A Noel Coward miscellany, devised by Kate Peters

Kate Peters & Tony Alcock

Love Letters (Molly's)

AR Gurney

Lynn McPherson

South Pacific

Rodgers & Hammerstein

Kate Peters

Barefoot in the Park

Neil Simon

Deslye Kruck

Golden Jubilee Celebration, co-ordinated and directed by Julanne Shearer

Don's Party

David Williamson

Steven Tandy

Steaming

Nell Dunn

Marion Parry

The Wind in the Willows

Adapted by Alan Bennett from Kenneth Grahame

John Rees-Osborne

2001

Sylvia

AR Gurney

Jane Irvine

Deadly Nightcap

Francis Durbridge

Steven Tandy

Picasso at the Lapin Agile

Steve Martin

Julanne Shearer

Our Town

Thornton Wilder

Tom McSweeney

Strippers

Peter Terson

Marion Parry

Chicago

Kander, Ebb& Fosse

Michael Sutton & Tony Alcock

2002

A Chorus Line

Kirkwood, Dante, Kleban & Hamlisch

Annie Lotocki

You Can't Take It With You

George Kaufman & Moss Hart

It's My Party (And I'll Die If I Want To)

Elizabeth Coleman

Pam Barber

The Herbal Bed

Peter Whelan

Jason Ingram Roth

One act play season

N.A. 

N.A. 

Shirley Valentine

Willy Russell

Michael Sutton & Tony Alcock

The Venetian Twins

Nick Enright & Terrence Clark

Michael Sutton & Tony Alcock

2003

The Merry Widow

Leon, Stein & Lehar

Julanne Shearer

A Murder Is Announced

Adapted by Leslie Darbon from Agatha Christie

Marion Parry

The Family

Jill Shearer

Deslye Kruck

Peggy For You

Alan Plater

Steven Tandy

Auntie Mame

Jerome Lawrence & Robert E Lee 

Graham Rushton & Val Hood

2004

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice

Jim Cartwright

Pam Sexton

The Sound of Music

Rodgers & Hammerstein

Leo Mevissen & Marion Parry

Hay Fever

Noel Coward

Maria Buckler

One act play season

N.A.

N.A. 

Cat on a Hot tin Roof

Tennessee Williams

Brian Wilson

Run for Your Wife

Ray Cooney

Dorothy Henderson

2005

Murder By Misadventure

Edward Taylor

Barry Gibson

Anything Goes

Cole Porter & PG Wodehouse

Julanne Shearer

An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde

Marion Parry

Shakespeare's Shorts

Extracts, sketches & homages to and from Shakespeare

Billie White, Brydie Hannabach & Sue Howell

I Hate Hamlet

Paul Rudnick

Brett Edwards

Caught in the Net

Ray Cooney

Dorothy Henderson

2006

Ten Times Table

Alan Ayckbourn

Lynn McPherson

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

Claudine Stephen-Smith

Red, Hot & Cole

Cole Porter, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse 

Doug Gehrke

Inheritance

Hannie Rayson

Eric James

The Boy Friend

Sandy Wilson

Janis Sheen

2007

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Ray Lawler

Shane Caddaye

Oh, What A Lovely War!

Theatre Workshop

Julanne Shearer

Equus

Peter Shaffer

Brett Edwards

One act plays: No Exit; Party; Deadline Dawn

Jean-Paul Sartre; Russell Beedles; Anthony Booth

Noella Johnson; Dawn China; John Mullan

Murdered to Death

Peter Gordon

Marion Parry

No Sex, Please - We're British

A Marriott & A Foot

Dorothy Henderson

2008

A Chorus of Disapproval

Alan Ayckbourn

Dawn China & Marion Parry

Annie Get Your Gun

Irving Berlin, H & D Fields

Kate Peters

Deathtrap

Ira Levin

Andrew Trump

Our Country's Good

Timberlake Wertenbaker

Jennifer Flowers

One act plays

N.A. 

N.A. 

The Club

David Williamson

Noella Johnson

Tom, Dick and Harry

Michael & Ray Cooney

Dorothy Henderson

2009

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde

Noella Johnson

High Society

Cole Porter & Arthur Kopit

Julanne Shearer

Jury Room

CB Gifford

Marion Parry

One act plays: Post-Its; Sorry Wrong Number; Lurker; The Proposal; Naomi in the Waiting Room

Dooley & Holzman; Lucille Fletcher; Don Nigro; Anton Chekhov; Christopher Durang

Marc James; Nathan Schulz; Cecile Campbell; Patricia Buckler & Joyce Grant; John Arthars

Waiting in the Wings

Noel Coward

Joan Stalker-Brown

Stepping Out

Richard Harris

Shane Caddaye

Diamond Anniversary Year

2010

Dial M for Murder

Frederick Knott

Barry Gibson

Show Boat

Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II

Julanne Shearer

Arsenic & Old Lace

Joseph Kesselring

John Rees-Osborne

One act plays

Various

Various

Travelling North

David Williamson

Noella Johnson

Move Over, Mrs Markham

Ray Cooney & John Chapman

Dorothy Henderson