Category: Productions

The 2025 D.A.D.S. production was a play by Robin Jennifer Miller called ‘Murder on Cue’ and it was performed in the Winn Hall on Thursday 20th, Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd November 2025 to an enthusiastic audience. Maple Lodge is a retirement home for actors, where gossip and old rivalries is rife between the residents.…

The 2024 D.A.D.S. production was a play by Tony Domaille called ‘Give Us A Sign’ and it was performed in the Winn Hall on Thursday 21st, Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd November 2024 to a sell-out audience. Ken unfortunately finds himself out of work. Frustrated with his wife Rachel moaning at him every day to…

The latest D.A.D.S. production – Surprise! Surprise! – is a comedy farce written by Phillipa Smith and directed by Louise Enticknap and Gemma Versteeg. There were 3 evening performances on consecutive days starting on Thursday 23rd November. Jess is turning 60 and her son Ben has arranged a surprise birthday party in a cottage with…

Little Dunsfold Amateur Dramatic Society is in trouble. The membership has dwindled – the audiences aren’t much bigger than the cast – and if they don’t come up with some money soon, no one will be able to see the actors as the lights keep going out! “There’s only one thing that sells tickets these…

Written by Richard Harris, this play was the second performance by the D.A.D.S. cast this year. Set in a cricket pavilion, Outside Edge deals with an eventful Saturday afternoon in the lives of 5 men and 4 women. Roger struggles to keep his team together to play against the British Railways Maintenance Division Guildford East,…

Written by Tim Firth, this comedy hit the Winn Hall in May 2009. Four out-of-condition businessmen sent on a team-building exercise in the Lake District succeed in being the first ever people to get shipwrecked on an island in Derwentwater. What should have been a bonding process for Gordon, Angus, Roy and Neville turns into…

Written by Noel Coward, this 2008 D.A.D.S. production was performed over 4 nights in November 2028. The performances were dedicated to the memory of Beattie Enticknap, a lifelong supporter of D.A.D.S. Charles Condomine (played by Paul Jenkins), a successful writer, and his wife Ruth (played by Sue Packer), have invited their friends Dr and Mrs…

Set in the Grantley Home for Retired Gentlewomen – what could be more peaceful and pleasant than four elderly ladies enjoying an evening’s TV viewing, watching the dramatisation of a notorious murder of 20 years ago? But, when the TV breaks down before the climax of the drama, their thoughts and guesses as to the…

D.A.D.S. performed this hilarious spoof of the best of Agatha Christie traditions. Set in a country manor house in the 1920s, the cast of characters delighted the audience in November 2005. There is Bunting the butler, an English colonel, a shady French art dealer and his moll, the bumbling local inspector and his constable, and…

In November 2024, D.A.D.S. put on the Play ‘So What Do We Do About Henry’, directed by Tora Bray and produced by Lane Sweatman. The action takes place in a Cornish cottage on a cliff top, in a village a few miles from Plymouth. Poor Henrietta. After 30 years spent caring for her uncle, she…