Full Length Plays
Nunsense
| Year | 2007 | Venue(s) | Dibble Tree Theatre | Style | Full Length Plays | Director(s) | Gibson, Betty|Gibson, Dick | Actresses | Brymer, Kim|Cheape, Carolyn|Dey, Linda|Easton, Lynne|Fagan, Siobhan|Fitzgerald, Joanna|Gibson, Betty|Gordon, Muriel | Musical Director(s) | Ellacott, Mike | Playwright(s) | Goggin, Dan |
The Yellow On The Broom
Betsy Whyte was born into a traveller family in 1919 and brought up in the age old tradition of the 'mist people' - constantly moving around the country and settling down in one place only during the winter. It was while the family were 'housed up' at this time of the year that she received her education, attending a number of village schools before winning a scholarship to Brechin High School, where she was the only traveller child. She gave up the traveller life when she married in 1939 and started writing about her childhood in the 1970s.
The Yellow On The Broom is the first part of her autobiography. Not only is it a fascinating insight into the life and customs of traveller people in the 1920s and 30s, it is also a thought proving account of human strength and weakness, courage and cowardice, understanding and prejudice by a sensitive and entertaining writer.
When Did You Last See Your Trousers?
| Year | 2000 | Venue(s) | Dibble Tree Theatre | Style | Full Length Plays | Director(s) | Gibson, Dick | Actors | Beckett, Andrew|Cheape, David|McSkimming, John|Roach, Grant|Ruddell, Sam|Wilson, Grant | Actresses | Cathro, Kirsten|Crabb, Susan|Gordon, Muriel | Playwright(s) | Antrobus, John|Galton, Ray |
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
| Year | 2006 | Venue(s) | Dibble Tree Theatre | Style | Full Length Plays | Director(s) | Cheape, David | Actors | Doherty, George|Doran, Jerrard|Gibson, Dick|Gilbride, Andy|Laing, Ali|McSkimming, John|Roach, Grant|Ruddell, Sam|Soutar, Dave|Strachan, Paul|Waggott, Peter|Wilson, Grant | Actresses | Brymer, Kim|Dey, Caroline|Doran, Carolyn|Wiseman, Steph | Playwright(s) | Wasserman, Dale |
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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is set in the day room of a state mental hospital. It deals with the change in status quo when an inmate of the local prison feigns insanity to escape the work farm. Randle P McMurphy's arrival on the ward has a dramatic effect on his fellow inmates and life on the ward will never be the same again.
David Cheape chose the above play, based on the best selling novel by Ken Kesey and perhaps best remembered as an iconic film of the 1970’s starring Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd and Louise Fletcher, as his 3rd production for CTC .
The original play premiered on Broadway in 1963 starring Gene Wilder and Kirk Douglas. It was revised from three to two acts in 1971 and ran for 1,025 performances, helping launch Danny DeVito into the public eye. In 2004 the play took the Edinburgh Festival and then the West End by storm starring Christian Slater, Mackenzie Crook and Frances Barber.

