Great War Theatre

Address: Redhill, UK

Performances at this Theatre

Date Script Type
28 Oct 1914 The King's Man Unknown
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The play, "The King's Man' was presented, and its episodes founded upon the tragic incidents the present time, must have brought home to many the fearful ordeal through which Belgium is passing. The characters were ably sustained bv Mr. P. L. Eyre, who took the part of "Bob Bruce," the husband who wished to enlist, his wife (Mrs. Adrian Ross) who prevented his enlistment his mother (Mrs. Edgar Chatterton) who desired her son do his duty, and a stranger in the person a Belgian refugee (Miss Jennings), whose story of how the Germans burnt her home and killed child, added another recruit to the King's Army. The proceedings closed with an Empire tableau, in which Britannia was represented with her Colonies around her and at her side were the Allies' (Dorking and Leatherhead Advertiser, 31 October 1914)
26 Dec 1914 Look Before You Sleep Unknown
20 Jan 1915 The Test Kiss Unknown
21 Aug 1919 The Amorist Professional
28 Feb 1920 For Sweethearts and Wives Professional
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‘Arthur Rosebery and Gerard F. Buckle will present for the first time in Redhill on Thursday and Friday next Miss Hettie Gale and the original West End company in the successful new romantic naval play, “The Silent Watch,” and on Saturday they will present the most popular drama of the day, “For Sweethearts and Wives,” which they have played in all principal suburban and provincial theatres for the past three years’. Surrey Mirror, Friday 20 February 1920.
16 Dec 1927 A Kiss For Cinderella Amateur
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‘Reigate County School girls gave a clever performance, at the Market Hall, Redhill, on Friday, of Sir James Barrie’s “A Kiss for Cinderella.” There was a crowded and appreciative company’. West Sussex Gazette, Thursday 22 December 1927. The Surrey Mirror, 23 December 1927, also published a review of the production.