The Semi-Circle productions
All the performances presented by the Semi-Circle from 1975 to the present are included here. Information regarding SC performances at Festivals can be found on the separate Festivals page.
A detailed listing of productions from 1976 to the present are shown below with links to the available information. Please note that the very first Semi-Circle performance was a reading in May 1975 of Oscar Wilde’s “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime”. This is not listed below as we (currently) have no documentation to show you.
A full list of the more than two hundred plays/musicals/readings/workshops & variety shows presented by The Semi-Circle can also be viewed here.
If any visitor to the site has any documents or photos which they can provide to help fill in the gaps in the information provided please contact me.
Finally a huge thank you to all the flyer/poster designers, programme compilers and, especially to all the photographers over the years who have generously given their time to the Semi-Circle and, most importantly, for allowing us to use their images in the collections illustrated below.
Please note that none of the images may be further disseminated without the express permission of The Semi-Circle.
Semi-Circle productions 1976 - 1985
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1976 |
Dec |
Reading |
Heartbreak house |
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1977 |
May |
Review |
Jubilee Review |
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1978 |
Jan |
Play |
Dear Charles |
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1978 |
Sep |
Review |
Old Time Music Hall |
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1980 |
Jan |
Play |
Hay Fever |
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1980 |
Oct |
Review |
A Seaside show |
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1982 |
Feb |
Play |
The Importance of Being Ernest |
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1983 |
Feb |
Play |
Present Laughter |
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1984 |
Feb |
Play |
Blithe Spirit |
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1985 |
Mar |
Play |
Separate Tables |
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Semi-Circle productions 1986 -1990
| Year | Month | Production | Play(s) | Programme | Poster & photos etc |
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1986 |
Mar |
Play |
Night Must Fall |
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1986 |
Jun |
Workshop |
Fumed Oak |
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1987 |
Feb |
Play |
Pygmalian |
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1987 |
Nov |
Workshop |
Aria da Capo, Womberang |
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1988 |
Mar |
Play |
I Remember Mama |
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1988 |
May |
Workshop |
Bus Stop, Postal Orders, From Here to the Library |
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1988 |
Nov |
Pageant |
The Paradise and Nativity Pageants |
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1988/1989 |
Various |
Workshop |
Present Laughter |
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1989 |
Feb/Mar |
Play |
Love for Love |
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1989 |
May |
Workshop |
Knightsbridge, Round and Round the Gooseberry Bush |
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1989 |
Sept/Nov |
Play |
Dear Liar |
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1989 |
Nov |
Workshop |
Five Revue Sketches, Too Long an Autumn |
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1989 |
Dec |
Reading |
A Christmas Carol |
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1990 |
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Workshop |
Queer Street, Departure |
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1990 |
Feb |
Play |
The Crucible |
Semi-Circle productions 1991 - 1995
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1991 |
May |
Play |
Nightmare |
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1991 |
Oct |
Play |
The Boy Friend |
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1992 |
Mar |
Play |
Thermal Underwear, Bar Stools, What’s For Pudding |
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1992 |
Nov |
Play |
An Inspector Calls |
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1993 |
Mar |
Workshop |
A Sense of the Ridiculous, Sweet Caroline Sweet, George |
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1993 |
May |
Workshop |
Talking Heads, 3 monologues |
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1993 |
Oct |
Play |
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime |
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1994 |
Mar |
Workshop |
Lunch Hour, Phones, The Man in a Cape, A Jolly Sinister Jape |
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1994 |
Oct |
Play |
You Can’t take It With You |
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1995 |
May |
Workshop |
Green Forms, Sure Thing, Last Tango in Little Grimley |
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1995 |
Oct |
Play |
Season’s Greetings |
Semi-Circle productions 1996 - 2000
| Year | Month | Production | Play(s) | Programme | Poster & photos etc |
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1996 |
Mar |
Workshop |
Interior Designs, The Rats, A Cut In The Rates, Jeffery Barnard is Unwell |
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1996 |
Oct |
Play |
Arsenic and Old Lace |
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1997 |
Mar |
Workshop |
Roll Over, The Actor’s Nightmare, Last Tango in Little Grimley |
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1997 |
Oct |
Play |
Doctor in the House |
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1998 |
Mar |
Workshop |
Between Mouthfuls, Albert, Joining the Club |
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1998 |
Oct |
Entertainment |
Will Power! Shakespeare As You Like It |
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1999 |
Mar |
Workshop |
An Englishman Abroad, The Problem, Cold Salmon |
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1999 |
Oct |
Play |
A Chorus of Disapproval |
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2000 |
May |
Short Plays |
On Hold at 30000 Feet, Sharks in the Custard, The Doctor in Spite of Himself |
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2000 |
Oct |
Play |
Straight and Narrow |
Content |
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Semi-Circle productions 2001 - 2005
| Year | Month | Production | Play(s) | Programme | Poster & photos etc |
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2001 |
June |
Play |
Rumours |
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2001 |
Oct |
Three One Act Plays |
Diary Of A Bad Housewife, The Proposal, Identity Crisis |
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2002 |
April |
Three One Act Plays |
Careful Rapture, A Talk In The Park, Guts |
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2002 |
June/Sept |
Play |
The Hollow Crown |
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2003 |
March |
Sketches |
An Informal Evening of Sketches |
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2003 |
2003 |
Two One Act Plays |
The Love Course, The Guest Lecturer |
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2003 |
Nov/Dec |
Musical play |
Oliver |
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2004 |
May |
Four One Act Plays |
Time Flies, Feeding The Ducks, Three Women, Red Spy At Night |
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2004 |
Oct |
Play |
ContentArms and the man |
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2005 |
April |
Paradise Lost, Three One Act Plays |
Homecoming, Fear Of Heaven, Squashed |
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2005 |
Sept |
Play |
The Memory of Water |
Semi-Circle productions 2006 - 2010
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2006 |
Feb |
Play |
Same Time Next Year |
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2006 |
Sept |
Behind Bars, Two One Act Plays |
The Cage Birds, Babysitting Calvin |
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2007 |
May |
Three One Act Plays |
Expert In Flowers, Shop For Charity, The Celebration |
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2007 |
Sept |
Play |
Role Play |
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2008 |
May |
Down and Out, Four One Act Plays |
Rabbit, The Author’s Voice, The Cavern, As Good As New |
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2008 |
Nov |
Play |
A Streetcar Named Desire |
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2009 |
Apr |
Hidden Lives, Five Short Plays |
Folie à Trois, Behind The Curtain, Miss You, Outsourced, Surprise |
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2009 |
Nov |
Bouncers and Shakers, Two Comedies |
Bouncers, Shakers |
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2010 |
Feb |
Play |
Quartet |
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2010 |
Oct/Nov |
Play |
Unoriginal Sin |
Semi-Circle productions 2011 - 2015
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2011 |
June |
Play |
Rent |
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2011 |
Oct |
Looking Back Falling Forward, Four One Act Plays |
Death Of A Clown, Ruby Of Elsinore, Norma, Night |
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2012 |
April |
Play |
The Shadow Box |
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2012 |
Sept |
Duplicity, Six Short Plays |
Foul Territory, Creep, Jerry Springer Is God, Game Theory, The Dear Departed, Medea |
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2013 |
June |
Play |
A Murder Is Annolunced |
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2013 |
Nov |
Greener Grass, Four One Act Plays |
Losing It, Mixed Doubles, DMV Tyrant, The Extraordinary Revelations Of Orca The Goldfish |
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2014 |
June |
Play |
Calendar Girls |
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2014 |
Nov |
Distraction, Four One Act Plays |
1-900-Desparate, Marigolds, Naomi In The Living Room, Late Entry |
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2015 |
Jun |
Play |
Entertaining Angels |
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2015 |
Nov |
True Colours, Four One Act Plays |
My Apology, Sure Thing, Sand to the Egyptians, Syrinx |
Semi-Circle productions 2016 - 2020
| Year | Month | Production | Play(s) | Programme | Poster & photos etc |
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2016 |
Mar |
An Evening At The Arlecchino |
Sketches |
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2016 |
June |
Play |
Dracula |
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2016 |
Nov |
Two One Act Plays |
Alas Poor Fred, Zoo Story |
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2017 |
Feb |
Rehearsed Play Readings (RPR) |
David Campton Sketches |
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2017 |
June |
Play |
Blithe Spirit |
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2017 |
Nov |
Secrets, Four Short Plays |
Love Forty, Waiting, Death Knocks, A Respectable Funeral |
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2018 |
June |
Play |
Top Girls |
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2018 |
Nov |
Friendships, Six Short Plays (Five performed) |
Carbon Dating, Over The Top, A.I. Guy, Four Yorkshire Women In Basel, Playing With Daisy |
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2019 |
Mar |
Lucky Thirteen (RPR) |
Sketches |
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2019 |
June |
Play |
Don’t Drink The Water |
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2019 |
Nov |
Sweet Expectations, Six Short Plays |
What’s Been Bugging Stuart, Platinum, Swiss Twist, Time Flies, While You Were Sleeping, Eugenically Speaking |
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2020 |
Nov |
Play |
Lockdown In Little Grimley |
Semi-Circle productions 2021 - 2025
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2021 |
Nov |
Twosomes, Five Short Plays |
A Famed Life, Right Sensation, The End Of The Picnic, Anger Management For Dogs, Capri |
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2022 |
March |
Filmed play |
Uber and Beyond |
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2022 |
Jun |
Play |
She Kills Monsters |
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2022 |
Nov |
Play |
Vanya and Sonia And Sasha and Spike |
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2023 |
Dec |
Christmas Deconstructed: Be Careful What You Wish For. Eight Short Plays |
Love And Light, Talk The Night, Menage A Trois, BotLove, Snowignon Blanc, Michael Cain’s Azaleas, Legal Claus, Attack Of The Killer Banana Spider! |
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2024 |
Mar/Apr |
Play |
God of Carnage |
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2024 |
June |
Play |
And Then There Were None |
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2024 |
Sept |
Rehearsed Play Readings (RPR) |
Various Short Plays |
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2024 |
Oct/Nov |
This Thing Called Life: An evening of short plays about what you can and can’t control |
Frozen Foods, Baking Bread, Incident on the Golden Gate Bridge, I Thought I Liked Girls, The Proposal, Adoption |
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2025 |
March |
Rehearsed Play Readings of Semi-Circle authored short plays |
Ma-trio-mony, SETI, The Alian Affair, The Other Side, The Concert, Police Walkie Talkie, Something Is Ever So Slightly off |
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2025 |
June |
Inner Circle. Six short plays |
Captive Audience, Something is ever so slightly off, Ma-trio-mony, The Other Side, The Concert, Dr. Fritz |