Category: Productions

The action takes place in the library of Monument House, the home of Septimus Tomb (recently deceased) and his family. In a sinister old library, a dusty lawyer reads a will (involving some millions of pounds) to an equally sinister family – one member of which has werewolf tendencies, another wanders around in a toga,…

An amateur drama company is rehearsing in the theatre at the end of the pier. Stormsrage overhead and the doors are locked — they are trapped! Then a mysterious, ghostly presence passes across the stage, and when the Assistant Stage Manager falls to certain death through a trapdoor, the remaining actors are thrown into disarray.…

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This fast paced British farce concerns a con artist, Eric Swan, who has duped the DSS for 2 years by claiming every type of benefit for the innumerable people he claims live at his address. Eric’s lodger, Norman, doesn’t know that Eric is claiming benefits in his name and when the DSS Inspector shows up,…

D.A.D.S. did a very funny take on the National Health Service for this November 2017 performance. Chaos erupts as patients, agency nurses, doctors and sisters battle it out at the start of another busy weekend on the under-funded and under-staffed mixed ward of St Christopher’s Hospital. A catalogue of disastrous mistaken identities leads to wrongful…

Stepping Out is a warm and very funny play about the lives, laughs and loves of a group of women (and one man) attending a weekly tap-dance class in a dingy North London church hall. There is ex-professional dancer Mavis, who runs the class; cheerfully overweight Sylvia; Andy, a plain do-gooder with no confidence; snobby but well meaning Vera; timid…

When notorious bank robber Harold Spook is sprung from prison in order to spill the beans where in the Hook House Hotel he stashed the loot, it seems that everything is going to plan. Unfortunately, he’s the wrong Harold Spook and this Harold has no idea where the money is hidden. He’s also a bit…

Mortimer Crayle, the crusty lawyer, and his secretary have gathered the remaining members of the Tomb family at the house, ostensibly to inform them about their inheritance. In reality, Crayle has designs on the estate that necessitate eliminating all Tombs. Fog descends on the gloomy mansion and in the cobwebby corridors things – and people…

D.A.D.S. recreate the story of Aladdin in this fun pantomime which was adapted for the society by Michael Walker, Tony Cannings and Phil Travis. Mayhem ensues in China when the wicked Abanaza, seeking the magic lamp with its powerful Genie which will enable him to rule the world, is distracted by the beautiful Princess Martini,…

The D.A.D.S. cast recreate the story of Robinson Crusoe, who was shipwrecked on an island which unfortunately was inhabited by cannibals. Gallery Programme