Productions
In production
The productions we are working on at the moment are:
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Hedda Gabler
Five performances between the 4th of December 2024 and the 7th of December 2024 at The Riverhouse Barn
199th Production. Hedda Gabler is by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The world premiere was on 31 January 1891 in Munich. The play has been regularly described as a masterpiece of world drama and dramatizes the experiences of the title character, Hedda, the daughter of a general, who is trapp...
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Kafka's Dick
Five performances between the 16th of April 2025 and the 19th of April 2025 at The Riverhouse Barn
200th Production. This hilarious absurdist comedy by Alan Bennett takes us from early 20th Century Prague, via a Leeds Semi-Detached and on through the gates of Heaven. On the way we explore the nature of fame and the way artists, their work and reputation are remembered and manipulated by critic...
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Rope
Five performances between the 23rd of July 2025 and the 26th of July 2025 at The Riverhouse Barn
201st production.
Past productions
All our past productions are listed below.
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A Basinful of the Briny |
36th Production. The sequel to the popular 1962 hit Beside The Seaside, a return visit to a Northern holiday boarding house. It was the last presentation of several, staged to in order to raise mon... about 59 years ago |
Bazaar and Rummage (Festival) |
BAZAAR AND RUMMAGE exhibits Sue Townsend's talent for extracting hilarious comedy from the most painful social insights. It tells of a group of agrophobic women persuaded to venture out of their h... about 35 years ago |
Bear Hug (Festival) |
An entry in the 2021 Maidenhead Drama Festival. A conventional middle-class couple are in their conventional middle-class kitchen. The mother, Linda, is serving dinner to her Volvo-obsessed husband... over 3 years ago |
The Beaux' Stratagem - A Wild Tale of Cash and Love |
190th Production. This is a late restoration comedy first produced in 1707 but has been brought completely up to date (in terms of language and easy accessibility) by firstly, Thornton Wilder (who ... about 3 years ago |
Bed (Festival) |
Our entry in the 2002 Elmbridge Festival is a surreal exploration of dreams and the twilight world of old age. Bed uses broad humour, dry wit and puns counterpointed by moving poetry to underline t... over 22 years ago |
Bedroom Farce |
over 43 years ago |
The Beggar's Opera |
179th Production. The Beggar’s Opera transports us to a grubby London in the eighteenth century. It’s a world of dashing Highwaymen and women of easy virtue. The pulsating score with lilting folk m... about 8 years ago |
Beside the Sea |
over 38 years ago |
Beside the Seaside |
28th production. A farcical Northern comedy. A popular play, it gave two repeat performances the following month in aid of Famine Relief. over 62 years ago |
Billy |
about 26 years ago |
The Birthday Party |
Setting - A seaside boarding house. Period 1958 Two sinister strangers arrive at a run-down boarding house enquiring about Stanley Webber, an erstwhile piano player, on the eve of his birthday. S... over 13 years ago |
Black Chiffon |
20th Production. A psychological drama. The production is notable for the first mention of Judith Humphries as prompter. Judith later married Colin Dolley and was to become a major player in RDG fo... over 67 years ago |
Black Comedy |
47th Production. Performed as a double bill with A Slight Accident over 54 years ago |
Blonde on the Bonnet (Festival) |
about 38 years ago |
Blondel |
BLONDEL was the first musical written by Tim Rice after his split with Andrew Lloyd Webber. It tells in a light-hearted jokesy way the colourful life of the 12th century troubadour accompanied by e... about 36 years ago |
Bonaventure |
25th Production. A gripping pyschological thriller. about 65 years ago |
The Boy Friend |
48th Production. RDG's second musical, the first of our Literary Institute productions to run for four nights. It was a complete sell out and made a record profit of £63! Among the cast were first ... about 54 years ago |
Breaking The Code |
A play based on the book Alan Turing, the Enigma by Andrew Hodges. A compassionate and often amusing play concerning the remarkable mind and tragic fate of Alan Turing, mathematician and computer ... over 17 years ago |
Brighton Beach Scumbags (Festival) |
Brighton Beach Scumbags explores the lives of two foul mouthed sets of couples- Derek and his wife Dinah and Dave and his wife Doreen. Both couples have travelled from Essex to enjoy a day at the b... about 7 years ago |
Broken Glass |
Written when Arthur Miller was 78 years old, “Broken Glass” has all the in-depth truth we expect of his plays. It was first presented in England at the National Theatre by Richard Eyre in 1994 with... over 15 years ago |
But Yesterday (Festival) |
A haunting, lyrical and enigmatic play from the sensitive pen of Jimmie Chinn. Set in an English vicarage garden in the 1950s and before. Prior to leaving on a journey from which he will not return... about 16 years ago |