Since its forming in 1937, The Marlow Players have generally performed two plays a year, as well as appearing in various drama festivals and radio performances.

Murder Mystery Evenings

Since 2020, the Marlow Players have performed at smaller events with “Radio Play” productions.

  • Murder at an Ice Cold Manner
  • Shooting at Friendly Film Studios

The Plays

These full length performances have been produced and performed in Marlow, in addition some of them have been performed in Marly-Le-Roi as part of our twinning with Les Baladins.

2020 – Present

2010 – 2019

2000 – 2009

1990 – 1999

  • The Weekend (Michael Palin) – Autumn 1999
  • On the Razzle (Tom Stoppard) – Spring 1999
  • Pack of Lies (Hugh Whitemore) – Autumn 1998
  • Blithe Spirit (Noel Coward) – Spring 1998
  • An Italian Straw Hat (Eugene Labiche & Dennis Spooner) – Autumn 1997
  • Confusions (Alan Ayckbourn) – Spring 1997
  • Anybody for Murder (Brian Clemens & Dennis Spooner) –  Autumn 1996
  • Relative Values (Noel Coward) – Spring 1996
  • Absurd Person Singular (Alan Ayckbourn) – Autumn 1995
  • Toad of Toad Hall (Kenneth Grahame) – Spring 1996
  • Beyond Reasonable Doubt (Jeffrey Archer) – Autumn 1994
  • Heartbreak House  (G B Shaw) – Spring 1994
  • Run For Your Wife (Ray Cooney) – Autumn 1993
  • Joseph Andrews (after Henry Fielding) – Spring 1993
  • Season’s Greetings (Alan Ayckbourne) – Autumn 1992
  • Separate tables (Terence Rattigan)  – Spring 1992
  • Noises Off (Michael Frayn) – Autumn 1991
  • A Midsummer’s Night Dream (William Shakespeare) – Spring 1991
  • Hay Fever (Noel Coward) – November 1990
  • Tom Jones (after Henry Fielding) – Spring 1990

1980 – 1989

  • House Guest (Francis Durbridge) – Autumn 1989
  • Murder at the Red Barn (anon) – Spring 1989
  • Murder at the Vicarage (Agatha Christie) – Autumn 1988
  • Three Sisters (Anton Chekhov) – Spring 1988
  • The Real Inspector Hound (Tom Stoppard) – Autumn 1987
  • After Magritte (Tom Stoppard) – Autumn 1987
  • A Dickens of an Evening (adapted Russell Sage) – Spring 1987
  • See How They Run (Philip King) – 1986
  • Pygmalion (G.B.Shaw) – 1986
  • Bedroom Farce (Alan Ayckbourn) – 1985
  • And So To Bed (J.B.Fagen) – 1985
  • The Virgins of Parsley Green (Russell Sage) – 1984
  • Saturday, Sunday Morning (Eduardo de Philippo) – 1984
  • On the Razzle (Tom Stoppard) – 1984
  • A Murder is Announced (Agatha Christie) – 1983
  • The Beggar’s Opera (based on John Gay Original) – 1983
  • Tales from Dickens (Adapted by Russell Sage) – 1982
  • Move Over Mrs Markham (Ray Clooney & John Chapman) – 1982
  • When We Are Married (J.B.Priestley) – 1982
  • Under Milk Wood (Dylan Thomas) – 1981
  • Sweeny Todd (from original by G.D.Pitt) – 1981
  • The Jilting of Gemma (Russell Sage) – 1980
  • Confusions (Alan Ayckbourn) – 1980
  • The Crucible (Arthur Miller) – 1980

1970 – 1979

  • Habeas Corpus (Alan Bennett) – 1979
  • Alice in Wonderland (Adapted from Lewis Caroll) – 1979

1960 – 1969

  • The Crucible – April 1964
  • My Three Angels –January 1964
  • To Dorothy, A Son – November 1963
  • The Deep Blue Sea – April 1963
  • The Beaux Stratagem – November 1962
  • Gasslight – March 1962
  • The Other Cinderella – January 1962
  • Captain Carvallo – November 1961
  • The Chalk Garden – March 1961
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – January 1961
  • Thieves Carnival – November 1960
  • The Late Edwina Black – March 1960
  • Fumed Oak, Seven Women, A Phoenix too frequent – January 1960

1950 – 1959

  • The School For scandal – November 1959
  • Don’t Listen Ladies – March 1959
  • Tovarich – December 1958
  • Ladies in Retirement – March 1958
  • Christmas Crackers – January 1958
  • The Chiltern Hundreds – October 1957
  • The Relapse – April 1957
  • Robinson Crusoe – January 1957
  • The Hollow – November 1956
  • Ladies Only – March 1956
  • Beauty and the Beast – January 1956
  • A Doll’s House – November 1955
  • When we are married – March 1955
  • Crackers Again – January 1955
  • Two Dozen Red Roses – April 1954
  • Christmas Crackers – January 1954
  • Treasure Hunt – October 1953
  • A Man about the House – March 1953
  • Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves – December 1953
  • Arms and the Man – November 1952
  • Bonaventure – March 1952
  • Autumn Crocus – November 1951
  • Rookery Nook – March 1951
  • Jack and the Beanstalk – January 1951
  • Lady Precious Stream – November 1950
  • Pygmalion – March 1950
  • Cinderella – January 1950

1940 – 1949

  • Hay Fever – October 1949
  • The Late Christopher Bean – April 1949
  • Aladdin  – Jan 1949
  • The Pleasure Garden November 1948
  • Wasn’t it Odd – March 1948
  • The Importance Of Being Earnest – November 1947
  • Dick Whittington – January 1947
  • MacBeth and The Merry Wives of Windsor – October 1946
  • Night Must Fall – April 1946
  • Sleeping Beauty – 1945
  • Blithe Spirit – April 1945

1937 – 1939

  • Cinderella – December 1939
  • The Two Mrs Carrols – March 1939
  • Tovarich – December 1938
  • Brills and The Playgoers – May 1938
  • The Lilies of the Field November 1937