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69 Years Celebrating Community Theatre

The Theatre on Chester has been providing the community with quality theatre in North Epping since 1956.

"This small Community Theatre in Epping always punches above its weight" (4th Wall Reviews)


69 years of productions

The Theatre on Chester has been providing the community with quality theatre in North Epping since 1956.

2010: Dinkum Assorted - Ruby Moon - Small Poppies

2009: Competitive Tenderness - It Could be Any One of Us - Lost in Yonkers

2008: Absurd Person Singular - Cut & Paste - Lettice and Lovage

2007: The Spook - The Great Man - The Shifting Heart

2006: It’s my Party (and I’ll Die if I want to) - The Beauty Queen of Leenane - The Goes the Bride

2005: Rough Justice - The Taming of the Shrew - Trap for a Lonely Man

2004: Much Ado About Nothing - The Rainmaker - The Habeas Corpus

2003: Pygmalion - Night Must Fall - Amadeus

2002: The Touch of Silk - The Sneeze- The Importance of Being Earnest

2001: Summer of the 17th Doll - After September - Love Letters

2000: Emerald City - Falling from Grace - Cosi

1999: Deathtrap - Time Present Time Past - Come back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean

1998: All My Sons - The Odd Couple (Female Version) - Season’s Greetings

1997: Dead White Males - Brighton Beach Memoirs - See How They Run

1996: A Hard God - 84 Charing Cross Road - On Our Selection

1995: A Voyage around my Father - Hotel Sorrento - Ten Times Table

1994: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Hay Fever - The Norman Conquests 1, 2 & 3

1993: Crimes of the Heart - Journey’s End - Stepping Out

1992: Away - Arsenic and Old Lace - Tribute

1991: The Diary of Anne Frank - The Dining Room - Lovers Dancing

1990: The Miracle Worker - A Pack of Lies - What the Butler Saw

1989: The Crucible - Absent Friends - Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!

1988: The Cell - And the Villain was a Lady - The Department

1987: A Murder is Announced – Rebecca - Absurd Person Singular

1986: This Old Man Comes Rolling Home - How the Other Half Loves - O What a Lovely War

1985: On Monday Next - Happy Family - Outside Edge

1984: No Names No Packdrill - Habeas Corpus - The Man who came to Dinner

1983: Separate Tables - The Club - Move over Mrs Markham

1982: California Suite - Under Milk Wood - Any Number Can Die

1981: A Taste of Honey - Ten Nights in a Bar Room - Wait Until Dark

1980: My Three Angels - The Room/Drinking Companions/ Between Mouthfuls/ Mother Figure - The Chairman

1979: Enter a Free Man - The Hostage - Present Laughter

1978: Ladies in Retirement - Come Back Little Sheba - Plaza Suite

1977: Not Now Darling - Delicate Balance - The Odd Couple

1976: The Waltz of the Toreadors - The Diary of Anne Frank - Wanted One Body

1975: The Matchmaker - Forget-me-not-Lane - Billy Liar

1974: Blithe Spirit - The Birthday Party - Boeing Boeing

1973: The Anniversary - When we are Married - Conquest of Everest/I Spy/ The Proposal

1972: The Sponge Room/Squat Betty - The Heiress - South Sea Bubble

1971: Nude with Violin - The Happy Haven - Hobson’s Choice

1970: All For Mary - Dinner with the Family - Murder Mistaken

1969: My Three Angels - The Day’s Mischief - The Fire Raisers

1968: Rape of the Belt - Waters of the Moon - The Browning Version/ A Night Out

1967: Figure of Fun - Semi Detached - The Lover/ Bald Prima Donna/ The American Dream

1966: The Hollow - The Importance of Being Earnest - One Blast and Have Done /Orison/ The Empire Builders

1965: Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime - Present Laughter - No Man’s Land/Lunch Hour/Hands Across the Sea

1964: Blithe Spirit - Separate Tables - Tail of Fire/The Delphiniums

1963: Book of the Month

1962: Breath of Spring - The Glass Menagerie

1961: Hotel Universe - The Reluctant Debutante

1960: A Question of Fact

1959: The Manor of Northstead - The Holly and the Ivy

1957: The Foolish Gentlewoman - Toad in the Hole

1956: Dear Brutus - Hit and Run

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