Past Productions
During the last fifty years, the Stillorgan Players have staged over 100 thrillers, farces, plays & pantomimes. Click on a photo or title for more information about the production.
There is only five minutes to go before everyone arrives. When the cat eats Uncle Richard's salmon, Mary and George decide to fill the gap with tinned salmon. The problems begin to escalate and in the end they find the truth behind what really happended to Tiddles!
March 2022
By Margaret Woods
Leonard Vole stands accused of murdering a rich widow. The stakes are high with shocking witness testimony and a young man's fight to escape the hangman's noose. Innocent or guilty, this suspense thriller will keep you guessing until the final curtain.
October 2019
By Agatha Christie
Join the Stillorgan Players in a magical family pantomime of well loved characters including Princess Jasmine, Widow Twankey, Wishee Washee, Abanazar the evil magician, and of course Aladdin himself.
2019 Pantomime
By Norman Robbins
Not only does Dr. Richard Forth have a hectic work schedule and an awkward friendship with his ex-girlfriend, but his wife, Barbara, is constantly ill. With bad luck spreading almost as quickly as bad news, it seems somebody is out to kill Barbara, and anyone else who gets in their way!
October 2018
By Norman Robbins
Tory Minister Richard Willey is about to embark on a night of passion with the Labour Leader’s typist, Jane Worthington, in room 648 of the Westminster Hotel. Naturally, things don’t run as smoothly as Mr Willey anticipates and their secret liaison is drastically hindered by the discovery of a dead body trapped in the hotel’s only unreliable sash window.
April 2018
By Ray Cooney
Many people dislike Larry Campbell but none feel more embittered than David Ryder who pursues his vendetta by nefariously obtaining a key to Campbell's flat to kill him.
November 2017
By Francis Durbridge
Set in the village of Pumpernickel, the Forest Fairy and Attrocia, the witch, battle for the villagers. Attrocia builds the Gingerbread House to entice the children, Hansel and Gretel. Events stop short before they are eaten, although the witch gets her just desserts!
2017 Pantomime
By Norman Robbins
On this occasion of a Parochial Church Council meeting temperaments clash over such matters as the redecoration of the church ad what to do about the cherubs. Meredith, builder and decorator considers it 'not a bad afternoon's work', however, with profitable repair bills in prospect, and even possible future happiness with the attractive Miss Jones.
October 2016
By Margaret Wood
Publican Gosforth is running the village fete. Due to a technical mistake, personal news about Milly Carter is publicised over the public-address system. Milly’s fiancé Stewart Stokes becomes aggravated and drowns his sorrows with alcohol. Councillor Mrs Pearce, after a most disorganised greeting, gives an electrifying performance. What starts as a normal day develops into chaos and ends in complete disaster.
October 2016
By Alan Ayckbourn
Set in a hospital, "It Runs in the Family" contains the usual assortment of farcical nuts running in and out of doors mistaking everybody for someone else, as Dr. Mortimore tries to fend off a paternity suit, an ex wife, a punkish daughter and various other lunatics so that he may, at last, deliver the Ponsonby Lecture in an international conference.
April 2016
By Ray Cooney
Max Telligan, a popular novelist, has returned to his London apartment from a business trip to Munich, much to the surprise of his wife. He is subsequently greeted by a parade of mysterious visitors who seek a calculator, question him about a diary, and more sinisterly, threaten to kill him. Max has, it seems, unwittingly become embroiled in the activities of an international terrorist group!
November 2015
By Francis Durbridge
Charles Condomine, a successful novelist, needs to learn about the occult for his next novel. Madame Arcati, an eccentric medium, is invited to hold a séance at his house. She inadvertently summons Charles's first wife, Elvira, who has been dead for seven years. A hilarious madness ensues as the ghostly and jealous Elvira makes continued, and increasingly desperate, efforts to disrupt Charles's current marriage to Ruth.
March 2015
By Noel Coward
King Cole may be old, but he’s not too old to fall in love and now he’s decided that it’s high time that he should take a wife! The women of the town and royal cook Dotty Dumplin are queueing up to audition for the role of Queen. Meanwhile, King Cole’s evil brother Peski and his wife Pariah are conspiring to unseat him from the throne - with a little help from a magic pool that reverses the ageing process, turning Old King Cole into Young King Cole!
2015 Pantomime
By Paul Reakes
The hilarious tale of the turmoil that ensues in the Ryan household in an upmarket residential area of Dublin’s Southside, when the ever-practical Sheila Ryan decides on a course of action to boost the family’s depleted income. Her husband, Brendan, a middle-aged redundant executive, has been out of work for eighteen months and there is a big household to support, as they strive to keep up appearances.
March 2014
By Bernard Farrell
Lady Tressilian invites several guests to her seaside home for two weeks at the end of the summer. Tennis star Nevile Strange, former ward of Lady Tressilian's deceased husband, incurs her displeasure when he proposes (to her mind bizarrely) that both his new wife, Kay, and his former wife, Audrey, come at the same time. Lady Tressilian grudgingly agrees but events soon become sinister when she is brutally murdered in her bed!
November 2013
By Agatha Christie
A family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman, Eva Smith. The family are interrogated and revealed to have been responsible for the young woman's exploitation, abandonment and social ruin, effectively leading to her death.
March 2013
By John B Priestley
Will Ronnie the Ringmaster find his true love? Will Goldilocks be safe from the bears? A pantomime adaptation of the classic fairy tale.
2013 Pantomime
By John Morley
When Canon Pratt and his two curates, Father Brest and Father Loran, lose their exteemed Ms Bottomly, they must recruit a replacement to carry on with the cooking and cleaning. They select Ms Maureen Kettle, aka Moll. She wraps the Canon around her little finger, feeds him well while starving the curates. When it comes to the question on Moll’s pension, more chaos ensues.
October 2012
By John B Keane
When Glenn Howard, a busy executive, decides to get rid of his wealthy wife Maggie, firstly to enjoy her money, secondly to avoid spending the rest of his life in boring luxury in remote Bermuda, and thirdly to free himself for another woman, he works out a complicated and devious plan to keep himself in the clear.
March 2012
By Francis Durbridge
Prospective purchasers of an avant-garde house forced to stay by fog bound night, but who is married to who?
November 2011
By Anthony Marriott & Alistair Foot
There is only five minutes to go before everyone arrives. When the cat eats Uncle Richard's salmon, Mary and George decide to fill the gap with tinned salmon. The problems begin to escalate and in the end they find the truth behind what really happended to Tiddles!
April 2011
By Margaret Wood
A middle aged woman has been attending the out-patients department for so long she now sees herself and guardian and advisor of any newcomers.
April 2011
By Margaret Wood
Ben Seaton is the new rector of Wychcombe Magna and is slowly gaining acceptance with the locals. Then the unthinkable happens - there is a murder at the rectory. Skeletons surface from the village's recent past - the death of a young girl, the involvement of a local man in a bullion robbery - and it becomes apparent that not everyone in the village is who they say they are!
October 2010
By J D Robins
Bernard has a French, a German and an American fiancee, each a beautiful airline hostess with a two day layover in Paris. He keeps "one up, one down and one pending" and has the seventh day to rest. Until airline schedule changes bring all three to Paris and their intended's apartment at the same time!
March 2010
By Marc Camoletti
This exciting thriller concerns Robert and Stella who learn that their son has been kidnapped - not for ransom but in order that they will allow one of the kidnappers safe haven in their house. Two policemen arrive with news that one of the kidnappers has been murdered - but very soon it is obvious that these two, and much else, is not as it seems.
November 2009
By Francis Durbridge
They say where there's a will, there's a relative & this comedy thriller exploits all the ingredients of the traditional murder-mystery - a remote country house on a dark and stormy night where a family of failures meet to haggle over a bequest. So far so ordinary, but since this is by one of Britain's leading dramatists, things are never what they seem!
February 2009
By Alan Ayckbourn
Disposing first of his brother-in-law, Jack enlists the help of his girlfriend in his plan to murder his wife. But his scheme goes horribly wrong and he, not his wife, ends up dead. There are so many possible suspects and motives that the truth eludes us all ... although Cliff seems to be on the right track.
2008
By Francis Durbridge
A pantomime adaptation of the classic fairy tale.
2007 Pantomime
By John Morley
A comedy taking place at two dinner parties in two living rooms on a single set. In this suburban trio of married couples, one couple is at the top of the social ladder. One of the other couples is attractive and upcoming, despite the fact that she is an utter slob and he is a complete boor, and the third pair is socially hopeless but earnest.
2006
By Alan Ayckbourn
Annie, the Cinderella of the family, lives in the shabby Victorian vicarage type house where the family was brought up. Reg, her brother, and his wife Sarah come to stay for a week end so that she may go away for a "rest". The general idea is that Annie ought to pair off with Tom. But for this week end it is Norman, the raffish assistant librarian husband of Annie's sister Ruth, with whom she planned to go. They were to meet secretly but Norman turns up early. When Annie calls the whole thing off Norman decides to stay on at the house and gets roaring drunk.
2006
By Alan Ayckbourn
Ross is a successful, happily married cardiac consultant - until his wife Fay announces she has fallen in love with the notorious womanizer Julian Kane. Later, Ross's assistant discovers two phials missing of Zarabell Four, a drug potentially lethal to cardiac patients. When Julian dies from a heart attack, all fingers point to Ross.
2006
By Francis Durbridge
There is only five minutes to go before everyone arrives. When the cat eats Uncle Richard's salmon, Mary and George decide to fill the gap with tinned salmon. The problems begin to escalate and in the end they find the truth behind what really happended to Tiddles!
2002
By Margaret Wood
On this occasion of a Parochial Church Council meeting temperaments clash over such matters as the redecoration of the church ad what to do about the cherubs. Meredith, builder and decorator considers it 'not a bad afternoon's work', however, with profitable repair bills in prospect, and even possible future happiness with the attractive Miss Jones.
2002
By Margaret Wood
Publican Gosforth is running the village gala which starts like all village fetes do. However it develops into chaos and as things continue to go wrong the play climaxes to a complete disaster.
2000
By Alan Ayckbourn
Three dodgy bookies, Alf Tubbe, Flash Harry and Fred Phipps, plan to rig a horse race by kidnapping the fancied horse and its French jockey. They stay at a country house hotel near the racecourse, run by Colonel and Mrs Wagstaff, where they conceal the horse Sweet Lavender (and later the jockey) in a hidden cellar.
1986
By John Chapman
The hilarious tale of the turmoil that ensues in the Ryan household in an upmarket residential area of Dublin’s Southside, when the ever-practical Sheila Ryan decides on a course of action to boost the family’s depleted income. Her husband, Brendan, a middle-aged redundant executive, has been out of work for eighteen months and there is a big household to support, as they strive to keep up appearances.
March 1986
By Bernard Farrell
Charles Condomine, a successful novelist, needs to learn about the occult for his next novel. Madame Arcati, an eccentric medium, is invited to hold a séance at his house. She inadvertently summons Charles's first wife, Elvira, who has been dead for seven years. A hilarious madness ensues as the ghostly and jealous Elvira makes continued, and increasingly desperate, efforts to disrupt Charles's current marriage to Ruth.
Autumn 1980
By Noel Coward
In Sybil Walling's absence her children call in the chimney-sweep, whose brushes dislodge not only soot but a body. When Sybil returns she tells them that, just before he died twenty years ago, their father had killed a Soho gangster and had hidden the body in the chimney. The police descend in pursuit of an amorous patient of Sybil's son Henry, which leads to hilarious misunderstandings and surprises.
1975
By Maurice McLoughlin
The day before Edwina Black's funeral, Inspector Martin calls to interview her husband Gregory, her companion Elizabeth and her housekeeper, Ellen. Gregory has long endured the domination of his wealthy wife, but is in love with Elizabeth. It is revealed Edwina died from arsenic. Gregory and Elizabeth quarrel bitterly. However Ellen confesses that Edwina poisoned herself: with vindictive spite she devised a suicide which would serve to incriminate Gregory and Elizabeth and so destroy them.
1975
By William Dinner & William Morum
It is Christmas Eve in the tropical prison colony of Cayenne. Felix Dulay, a hopeless storekeeper, is fearfully awaiting the owner, Gaston. Providence has given the Dulays three guardian angels — three convicts! In no time they have cooked Christmas …
1974
By Sam & Bella Spewack
A murder mystery farce, featuring a cast of suspicious characters told the story of the passing of wealthy Mr. Barraclough and the arrival of solicitors Blundell and Mickleby at the house to read the will. A clause in the will granting a portion of the inheritance to the servants set the house into turmoil. A murder occured and Blundell and Mickelby found themselves having to piece together the clues to find the culprit.
1974
By Raymond Dyer
Martin's best friend Paul has been wrongfully hanged for murdering a girl in his adoptive father's flat. When he fails his law exams Fenn, a private tutor, arrives and confides to Martin that he is Paul's father and together they determine to discover the true murderer.
1973
By Emlyn Williams
The play is set in a Mission Station for orphaned children in “an Eastern Country” during the year 1950. A new Communist government has taken over and there has been persecution of Nuns and Priests throughout the province. The Mission has been cut off from the local village and the orphaned children have been removed.
1973
By Maurice McLoughlin
The Victorian Evening was a great success as everyone came in costume and no one wanted to go home in the end!
January 1973
Parish Social
Aubrey Allington is an inventor with enormous ingenuity at dodging debts; but tradesmen all around are getting wise to his tricks. Just as he is about to resort to the desperate plan of inviting all his creditors to dinner and blowing them up en masse, he and his wife Louise discover to their astonishment that he has inherited a fortune from a distant relative which will enable them to pay off all their debts.
1971
By Will Evans & Arthur Valentine
Set in rural Ireland the strong-willed Jane Sheridan wants to marry off her daughter Mary to a wealthy and mature farmer, the widower Batt Seery, rather than to the girl’s own choice, the youthful and impulsive Joe Hession. What appears to be a straightforward story of true love struggling to find a way turns out to be nothing of the sort. Things are not what they seem in the Sheridan household.
March 1972
By Louis Dalton
An amateur dramatics group is rehearsing for next week's play and things are proceeding in customary confusion.
November 1971
By Philip King
A newly married woman begins to suspect that her husband is a killer. Even worse, she soon comes to believe that she will be his next victim.
1971
By Frank Vosper
Three dodgy bookies, Alf Tubbe, Flash Harry and Fred Phipps, plan to rig a horse race by kidnapping the fancied horse and its French jockey. They stay at a country house hotel near the racecourse, run by Colonel and Mrs Wagstaff, where they conceal the horse Sweet Lavender (and later the jockey) in a hidden cellar.
1970
By John Chapman
The action takes place in a small farmhouse on an isolated headland on the south-western seaboard of Ireland, around 1960. Keane's play is about the struggle between the forces of good and evil and the mythical beliefs of 1930’s rural Ireland deals with a man’s ruthless lust for land, which overrides all family loyalties, and can ultimately lead to tragedy.
March 1970
By John B Keane
Set in 1949, confusion reigns when St Swithin's Girls' School is accidentally billeted at Nutbourne College: a boys' school. The two heads, Wetherby Pond and Muriel Whitchurch, try to cope with the ensuing chaos, as the children and staff attempt to live in the newly cramped conditions (it being impossible to share dormitories or other facilities), and seek to prevent the children taking advantage of their new opportunities.
November 1969
By John Dighton
The action of the play takes place in the living room of a skiing chalet in the Austrian Alps