Headley Theatre Club
 Established 1952
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A brief history of Headley Theatre Club . . .
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The Headley Pageant of 1951
A village pageant was organised in 1951 to celebrate the Festival of Britain.
The success of this led directly to a second pageant in 1953 celebrating the Queen's Coronation, and also to the formation of Headley Theatre Club in 1952.

Objects of the Club
The prime object of the Club, as stated in our First Constitution, is "To unite the village in good fellowship", and this we still strive to do.

What's in a name?
There was much criticism voiced at the time about the choice of name for this organisation – it was thought by some that the term 'Theatre Club' sounded too exclusive for a village amateur dramatic society . . . but it stuck.

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Past performances involving Headley Theatre Club

. . . including a Pantomime (nearly) every year since 1952 – Oh yes we did!

1952 Vaudeville production - "Well Done" - programme
Blithe Spirit
1953 Robinson Crusoe
Musical evening
Elizabethan pageant
A Murder Has Been Arranged
1954 Ali Baba
Gala performance (for Village Hall funds)
Shall we Join the Ladies?
The Lady's Not For Burning
1955 Goody Two Shoes
The Happiest Days of Your Life (concert) - for Village Hall funds
The Fish / The Deluge (1-acts)
1956 Sleeping Beauty
Travellers Joy
Anastasia (The Recognition Scene) (1-act)
Love & Lunacy / Soot (1-acts)
1957 Pantomime (title unknown, author: Mrs. Fry)
Private Lives / Mayor of Torontal (1-acts)
1958 The Rose and the Ring
- Records lost – please let us know if you have any details hidden away -
1960 Ladder for Lucy (1-act)
Dial 'M' for Murder
1961 The Witch (1-act)
1962 Present Laughter
Roar Like a Dove
Bonadventure (1-act)
1963 Pygmalion
1964 Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
Your Obedient Servant
Venus Observed
The Tree (1-act)
1965 Little Red Riding Hood
The Grass is Greener
Dark Lady of the Sonnets (1-act)
1966 Jack and the Beanstalk
Gigi
Shall We Join the Ladies? / The Count's Marie / Unhand Me Squire (1-acts)
1967 Cinderella (author: John Chasty)
Music Hall
White Sheep of the Family
In the King's Bosom / The Goldfish Pond (1-acts)
1968 Charlie's Aunt
Spring play (title unknown)
The Island (1-act)
1969 Albert Laddin
Wanted, One Body
The Form / Mayor of Torontal (1-acts)
1970 Toad of Toad Hall
I'll Get My Man
The Laboratory / Irresistible Albert (J) (1-acts)
1971 Robinson Crusoe (author: Stan Sharp)
Breath of Spring (director: Ray Pascoe)
Sea Splash (J) author: Lily Walsh / The Party author: Lily Walsh (J)/ The Playgoers (1-acts)
1972 Ring Around the Moon (Youth)
Angels in Love (director: Di Rabbetts)

Supper evening with sketches, etc: Do it Yourself / Home from Home / They Made her Wild (by Headley WI)

Instruments of Darkness (Youth, 1-act)
1973 Sleeping Beauty (adaptor & director: Dawn Lewcock)
Ladies in Retirement (director: Marie Bryan)
Victorian Evening (£40 to Village Hall funds)
The Fire Raisers (Youth)
1974 Robin Hood & Babes in the Wood
Come Back Tomorrow / Saxon Wives of Ellendune / The Fish (1-acts)
Gay 20s evening
1975 Aladdin
The Love of 4 Colonels
What Shall We Tell Caroline / The Bald Primadonna (1-acts)
Lord Arthur Saville's Crime
1976 Dick Whittington (author: Stan Sharp)
Man of Mode
The Orchestra / Operation Cold Cure (1-acts)
Skin of Our Teeth
1977 Jack and the Beanstalk
Move Over Mrs. Markham
Mummers' Play at carnival
The Real Inspector Hound / A Fishy Business (1-acts)
Present Laughter (25 year anniversary evening) - £60 to Village Hall funds
1978 Cinderella
The Noble Spaniard
Life of Hercules, part 1 (1-act) at ADAC
This Desirable Cottage / Restoration Piece / Life of Hercules
1979 Ali Baba (author: Stan Sharp)
The Shop at Sly Corner
The Proposal / Four Walls / Rock Bottom (1-acts)
Here We Come Gathering
1980 Christmas Entertainment evening
Ritual for Dolls / Housekeeper Wanted (1-acts)
Ritual For Dolls (1-act) at Farnham Maltings
Tomb With a View
1981 Mother Goose
This Happy Breed
Mummers' play at fete
Words of Advice / Rumpus at Railsford (1-acts)
Words of Advice (1-act) at ADAC (won 2nd place)
1982 Red Riding Hood
How the Other Half Loves
Midsummer Nights Dream (parts) - at fete
DYFO (J)/ One Season's Living / No Man's Land (1-acts)
One Season's Living (1-act) at ADAC
1983 Sleeping Beauty
Brides of March
Village Hall extension completed
Sweet Fanny Adams - at fete
Excuses (J)/ Ragwoman of the Shambles / Storm in a Saucepan (J)/ A Fishy Business
1984 Sinbad the Sailor
Shakespeare evening
Black Eyed Susan - at fete
Angel's Folly (J)/ Outpatients / Little Brother, Little Sister
Twelfth Night (ADAC Stage Management)
1985 Goody Two Shoes
Woman in White
Little Brother, Little Sister (1-act) at ADAC (1st)
Music Hall
Ernie's Incredible Illucinations (J)/ Hairdo / Shelter (1-acts)
An Inspector Calls
1986 Dick Whittington
Downgoing of Orpheus Hawkins / Dream Jobs (Junior evening)
Bus Stop / We've Got Minds of Our Own / Frank's Christmas (auth: Sarah Horne)
Frank's Christmas (1-act, by Sarah Horne) at ADAC
Music Hall
Sailor Beware
1987 Aladdin
The Incredible Vanishing / The "Rabble Rousers" / The Right Place (Junior evening)
Who Calls? / Nine Floors, Not Counting the Mezzanine / Genteel / Fumed Oak
Fumed Oak (1-act) at ADAC
35 year anniversary evening
20s & 30s evening
"Franglais" evening at Haslemere (Bernay twinning)
Lucky For Some
1988 Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs - photos
The Idiot King / You, Me, and Mrs. Jones (Junior)
Husbands Supplied / What Shall We Do With the Body? / Curses, Foiled Again
Murder in the Cathedral (ADAC, performing/stage managemnt)
"Auction of talents" evening
Music Hall
Beyond a Joke
Sponsored "24 hr Shakespeare"
1989 Puss in Boots
Sleeping Cutey / The Diary of Adrian Mole (Junior)
Just Another Day / Sunday Costs Five Pesos / Pastiche (1-acts) plus 3 Sketches
"Franglais" evening at Headley (Corné twinning)
Curses, Foiled Again (1-act) at ADAC
"Auction of Talents" evening (with Scouts)
Mummers Play at Pentlow (for charity)
"Everyone's Gone to the Moon" - a celebration of the 60s
Separate Tables
Sponsored "24 hr Comedy"
1990 Cinderella
Super Supper Evening
Canterbury Tales (ADAC, performing/stage management)
A Murder is Announced (Agatha Christie centenary)
Sponsored Play in a Day - "The Hindsight Saga" (author: Jo Smith)
1991 Robin Hood - report and photo
Double or Quits - including Act 3 of 'Plaza Suite' (ADAC)
William Goes Camping / The Dark Side / Arthur (Junior/Youth)
The Long Noon / Red Spy at Night / The Purging (1-acts)
An Evening of Murder (for audience to solve)
Music Hall
Tom Jones - photos
1992 Jack and the Beanstalk - report and photos
An Ideal Husband
Nicholas Nickleby (ADAC)
Headley carnival - photo
Fortyssimo - 40 year anniversary review
Share and Share Alike (youth)
1993 Sleeping Beauty
A Phoenix Too Frequent / Knightsbridge / George (1-acts)
The Women of Troy (ADAC) - HTC not involved
?Youth production
Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Macbeth - photos
This Bloody Crew - HTC members involved
1994 Pinnochio - photos (+ at Lindford WMC)
Grass Widows / youth music / Wife Required / Joining the Club (1-acts)
The Lady's Not For Burning (ADAC)
Wartime Memories (40s evening) for D-Day
See How They Run
1995 Humpty Dumpty
"Auction of Talents" evening (with Headley Society)
I Love My Love & Mixed Doubles
Taming of the Shrew (ADAC) - HTC not involved
  Dramatic Walk round Hindhead (for the NT) – report & photos
Wartime Memories (40s evening) for VE-Day
Gone Up In Smoke (youth)
A Balance of Trust - HTC members involved
The True Story of King Wenceslas (for Headley Society)
1996 Sinbad the Sailor
The Importance of Being Earnest (Bunbury - HTC involved)
Poems & drama in All Saints' church
Breezeblock Park
  Dramatic Walk round Hindhead again (for the NT)
Old Time Music Hall
(youth)
Confusions
1997 Nutcracker - report and photo
Easy Stages (youth) + Hilary Bishop School of Dancing
Flora's Peverel - HTC members involved - report and photo
Old Time Music Hall (+ at Lindford WMC)
Poems & drama in All Saints' church
1998 Dick Whittington
Murdered to Death by Peter Gordon
Entertainment for French Twinning 10th anniversary
Old Time Music Medley (+ at Lindford WMC) - included boys' striptease!
Flora's Heatherley - HTC members involved - report and photo
Silent Auction (with Headley Society & Arford WI)
1999 Sleeping Beauty (+ at Lindford WMC)
Plaza Suite
Entertainment in Corné, with Headley Twinning Association
Part of 'Riot' at Selborne for BBC TV - HTC members involved
Salute the Century
Readings at 'Rural Writers Remembered', Rural Life Museum, Tilford
The Boyfriend
2000 Aladdin
Victoria Station/Twelve Minute Night/Clara's on the Curtains (1-acts)
Headley Millennium Pageant
"Summer Time" - a musical entertainment for a summer's evening
The Broomsquire - HTC members involved
2001 Ali Baba – cast
  Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Murder Mystery – review
  Old Time Music Hall
The Broomsquire - HTC members involved
2002 Cinderella – review – cast
  The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – cast – photos
  Celebration of the 50s
  Riot! - HTC members involved – cast – photos
2003 Robin Hood – cast & photos
  Not Fit to Live in England (1-act in Haslemere Festival)
  Bugsy Malone – cast & photos – review
  Magnificent Music Hall – review
  Murder à la Carte (Murder Mystery Evening)
2004 Red Riding Hood – cast & photos – review
  One Act Plays: Percival the Performing Pig (J); Ghost Writer (Y); Pastiche (Senior) – review
– the latter two plays performed also at the Haslemere Festival
  Music Hall – photos
  Secondary Cause of Death (author: Peter Gordon) – photos
2005 Snow White – cast & photos – DVD
  Jobsworth – three episodes from a series of radio scripts
  Around the World in 80 Days (author: Stan Sharp) – DVD
  Songs from the Shows – photos – DVD
2006 Puss in Boots – cast & photos – DVD
  Job Done (Murder Mystery Evening)
  Flora's Heatherley – cast & photos – DVD
  Jobsworth – three more episodes from the series of radio scripts – DVD
  Mummers Play, on the village green as part of the Michaelmas Fete (used old script from Headley archives)
  Pirates of Penzance – photos – DVD
2007 Jack & the Beanstalk – cast & photos – DVD
  Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Macbeth – cast & photos – DVD
  Flora's Peverel – cast & photos – DVD
  Headley 55 – open day in the Village Hall to celebrate HTC's 55th year
  Authentic 1899 Music Hall – DVD
2008 Sleeping Beauty – cast & photos – DVD
  The Railway Children – photos
  Bard's Night
  Casino 007 – photos
  Dramatic Walk round Waggoners Wells (for the NT) – photos
2009 Dick Whittington – cast & photos
  It's Murder – murder mystery evenings
  Candleford – cast & photos
  Headley Hayloft – photos
  'Allo 'Allo – cast & photos
2010 Robinson Crusoe – cast & photos
  The Raven – some HTC members helped as extras in a film shoot in Midhurst – photos & report
  Bard's Night – photos
  Dick Barton, special agent – photos
  Treasure Hunt – photos

Past experiences. . .

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Contact Vicky or link to HTC e-mail.

The First Constitution, 1952

RULES OF THE HEADLEY THEATRE CLUB

1. The name shall be "The Headley Theatre Club".

2. The objects of the club are:-
(a) To unite the village in good fellowship.
(b) To provide a focal point for its theatrical and artistic activity.
(c) To furnish means for developing those activities by building up a fund for the acquisition of theatrical properties, literature and all such articles as may be required for both musical and non-musical stage production, study and instruction.
(d) To organise and produce musical and dramatic performances for the entertainment of the village and surrounding communities and to take part in drama festivals and other theatrical and artistic activities.

3. (a) Membership shall be open to all people resident in the Ecclesiastical Parish of Headley or people introduced by members so resident.
(b) The Secretary shall keep a register of Club Members, but members shall be responsible for informing the Secretary of any alterations to the details of the register.
(c) Notices to members published in the local press and on the Club notice board shall be sufficient.
(d) Persons who assisted in the formation of the Club up to the adoption of the rules shall be Foundation members.
(e) Members shall pay the annual subscription decided upon under Rule 7 (d).

4. ORGANISATION
(a) The Officers of the Club shall be:- (b) The Executive Committee shall consist of the Officers and six other members.
(c) The Officers and the other members of the Executive Committee shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting to hold office until the next Annual General Meeting.
(d) Sub-Committees may be appointed by the Executive Committee as required. Sub-Committees shall conduct only such business as is connected directly with the functions for which they are appointed.

5. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
(a) A quorum of the Executive Committee shall be five
(b) The Executive Committee is empowered to nominate a Club member to fill a vacancy. Not more than three vacancies shall be so filled without the appointments being confirmed by a General Meeting.
(c) The Executive Committee may sanction the introduction of guest artists and technical assistants to assist in any of the Club's productions other than Festival or Competition Productions.

6. GENERAL MEETINGS
(a) The President shall when possible act as Chairman at a General Meeting.
(b) A quorum for a General Meeting shall consist of 25 members or a quarter of the members, whichever is fewer.
(c) An Annual General Meeting of the Club shall normally be held each year before the end of May.
(d) Where possible matters to be raised under "any other business" shall be notified to the Secretary before the meeting starts. The Chairman of the meeting shall have power to rule out of order any such matter which in his opinion is of such major importance that 15 days notice of it should have been given to all members of the Club in accordance with Rule 6 (h).
(e) An Extraordinary General Meeting may be called at any time by the Executive Committee.
(f) The Executive Committee is bound to call an Extra-ordinary General Meeting at the written request of 25 members or one-sixth of the members, whichever is fewer.
(g) No business other than that notified at the convening of the meeting shall be transacted at an Extraordinary General Meeting.
(h) Fifteen days notice must be given of any General Meeting and the business to be transacted at the meeting must be published with such notice.

7. FINANCE
(a) The financial year shall be from the 1st April to 31st March each year. Accounts shall be audited at the end of each financial year by a person who is not a member of the Executive Committee. The Auditor shall be appointed by the Executive Committee.
(b) The accounts shall be published in such a manner as to be available for all members to study at the same time as notice of the Annual General Meeting is given.
(c) The accounts shall be submitted to the Annual General Meeting for approval.
(d) Proposals regarding the annual subscription and the entrance fee shall be made to the Annual General Meeting by the Executive Committee. The annual subscription and entrance fee shall be fixed by a motion passed at a General Meeting.
(e) Annual subscriptions shall become due on the date of the Annual General Meeting and must be paid within two calendar months of that date. Any member who fails to pay the Annual subscription within the prescribed period shall be considered to have resigned membership of the Club.
(f) Drafts on the Club bank account shall be signed by one of the Officers of the Club.
(g) The Executive Committee shall control the finances of the Club.
(h) The Club shall not be conducted for the financial profit of its members. The Executive Committee may reimburse members or other persons on account of legitimate expenses incurred on behalf of the Club.

8. In the event of the dissolution of the Club all properties of the Club shall be disposed of in the manner decided at an Extraordinary General Meeting called for that purpose. The funds of the Club, including the proceeds of any sale of properties, shall, after payment of all debts and liabilities of the Club, be given to a charity approved at the Extraordinary General Meeting.

9. (a) The Executive Committee may, at its discretion, grant free tickets or other special privileges on account of services rendered or to guests to whom it is desired to extend special courtesy.
(b) The Executive Committee may, at its discretion, or on a motion passed at a General Meeting, elect persons who have rendered special services to honorary life membership.

10. (a) Motions involving additions or alterations of the Bye-laws of the Club may be introduced by members at the Annual General Meeting providing they have been submitted to the Secretary in time to be included in the notice convening the meeting. Bye-laws shall be passed or altered by a simple majority.
(b) Bye-laws may be introduced by the Executive Committee to meet requirements not covered by the Rules, but such Bye-laws must be submitted for approval at the next General Meeting.

11. The Rules cannot be altered, annulled or added to except by a majority of two/thirds of the members present at an Extraordinary General Meeting convened for the purpose.

The Constitution was subsequently amended in 1971, and again in 1991
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