Welcome to Theydon Bois Drama Society
About Us
Theydon Bois Drama Society was founded in 1925, and although there was a short suspension during the war years, such continuity in a small community is remarkable.
Over the years the Society has presented a wide range of comedies and tragedies, thrillers, music halls, variety shows and revues, pantomimes and musicals and many people, in their time, have played many parts on stage and back-stage. Our venue has progressed from one of the old Retreats, to the old Army Hut in Loughton Lane, to the Village Hall in Coppice Row and now to the magnificent Village Hall of which the village is so proud.
In the early days membership consisted entirely of local people and more particularly of family groups, but now our membership is drawn from a wider area and we are always keen to welcome new members from Theydon Bois and beyond.
Our Venue
Our theatre is a warm welcoming environment with step free access . From the moment you come though the doors you will be met by our front of house team who will be pleased to help you find your seats. You can buy a programme for each show.
Our fully licensed bar is open before, during and after every show serving a range of spirits, wine, soft drinks and beers and ice cream. We also serve tea, coffee and biscuits during the interval.
We pride ourselves on being able to welcome those with special requirements. There is step free access to the hall and a disabled toilet. The hall is fitted with an induction loop which is active during each show.
Our Members
Our members are warm and welcoming to anyone joining a cast for the first time, either new to the society or to performing in general. We have a wide range of ages, abilities and backgrounds that make our performances rich and each cast a different experience.
Some of our members have been with us for decades, some for years and some just for a few months. It's fair to say, though, that once you've experienced performing with us, you'll never want to leave!
Theydon Bois Drama Society: Creativity Meets Performance
Theydon Bois Drama Society Productions 1986-2016
THEYDON BOIS DRAMA SOCIETY
2025 Season
Curtain Up On Murder | The Merry Wives of Windsor | Glorious
2024 Season
Iconic | Deep Blue Sea | Habeas Corpus
2023 Season
Robin Hood | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | The Vicar of Dibley
2022 Season
Neighbourhood Watch | Death in High Heels | Talking Heads
2021 Season
California Suite
2020 Season
The Wind In The Willows
2019 Season
The 39 Steps | A Murder is Announced | The picture of Dorian Gray | The Memory of Water
2018 Season
Cinderella | Quartet | Much Ado about Nothing | A Bunch of amateurs
2017 Season
Blithe Spirit | Third Week in August | Snake in the Grass | Hound of the Baskervilles
2016 Season
Confusions | The Killing of Sister George | Rumours
2015 Season
Up Pompeii | The Ladykillers | The Diary of Anne Frank | Yes Prime Minister
2014 Season
Viva Variety II | Murder Weapon | Billy Liar | Dick Barton: The Tango of Terror
2013 Season
Absurd Person Singular | See How They Run | The Aspern Papers | When We Are Married
2012 Season
’Allo ’Allo | The Odd Couple | Macbeth | Fallen Angels
2011 Season
Viva Variety | The Beaux’ Stratagem | Lloyd George Knew My Father | Pygmalion
2010 Season
Aladdin | Time of My Life | Love’s a Luxury | Murder Mistaken
2009 Season
By Jeeves | The Heiress | Don’t Dress for Dinner | Tartuffe
2008 Season
Rumpelstiltskin | Cactus Flower | Hay Fever | Plaza Suite
2007 Season
Season’s Greetings | Deadly Nightcap | Kindly Leave the Stage | Dangerous Corner
2006 Season
A Chorus of Disapproval | 84 Charing Cross Road | Rope | Tiptoe through the Tombstones
2005 Season
2005 Radio Times | Sand Castles | A Month of Sundays | The Roses of Eyam
2004 Season
Sleeping Beauty | Deathtrap | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Lettice and Lovage
2003 Season
Sentimental Journey | Therese Raquin | Time and Time Again | Over the Moon
2002 Season
The Slipper and the Rose | Rebecca | Relatively Speaking | Steel Magnolias
2001 Season
A Christmas Carol | Outside Edge | Run for Your Wife
2000 Season
Stages | Lost in Yonkers | The Anniversary | Beyond Reasonable Doubt
1999 Season
Worzel Gummidge | The Dresser | Arsenic and Old Lace | She Stoops to Conquer
1998 Season
A Funny Thing Happened/Forum | Jekyll and Hyde | Twelfth Night | How the Other Half Loves
1997 Season
Lend Me a Tenor | And Then There Were None | The Happiest Days of Your Life
1996 Season
The Wind in the Willows | Night Must Fall | Table Manners | Stagestruck
1995 Season
Cinderella | Oliver | A Man for All Seasons
1994 Season
Jack and the Beanstalk | Something to Hide | Variety Show | An Inspector Calls
1993 Season
Dick Whittington | The Hollow | The Importance of Being Earnest | Hobson’s Choice
1992 Season
Little Miss Muffet | Pack of Lies | Variety Show | California Suite
1991 Season
Ali Baba | Under Milk Wood | The Winslow Boy | Look No Hans
1990 Season
A Christmas Carol | Habeas Corpus | Stepping Out
1989 Season
The Sleeping Beauty | Fools Rush In | Nightmare
1988 Season
Sinbad the Sailor | Semi-Detached | Blithe Spirit
1987 Season
Aladdin | The Magistrate | Virtue Triumphant | Key for Two
1986 Season
Mother Goose | Look Who’s Talking | Murder in Company | When We Are Married
1985 Season
The Wizard of Oz | Confusions | Abigail's Party | The Ghost Train
1984 Season
The Grand Old Duke of York | A Tomb With A View | The Prime of Miss Jane Brodie | On The Razzle
1983 Season
Dick Whittington | The Chalk Garden | The Boyfriend | Outside Edge
1982 Season
Cinderella | Private Lives | Dear Daddy | Murder On Arrival
1981 Season
Cowardy Custard | Spring and Port Wine | Old Time Music Hall | Tonight at Eight
1980 Season
Sing a Song of Sixpence | Two and Two Make Sex | Mixed Doubles
1979 Season
New Clothes for the Emperor | The Secretary Bird | The Importance of Being Earnest
1978 Season
Robinson Crusoe | The Visit | Plaza Suite
1977 Season
The Other Cinderella | Trap for a Lonely Man | Pink String and Sealing Wax
1976 Season
Babes in the Wood | Breath of Spring | Oh! What a Lovely War
1975 Season
No, No, Nanette | Time and Time Again | Diplomatic Baggage | She Stoops to Conquer
1974 Season
Palace of Varieties | Angels in Love | Murder at the Vicarage
1973 Season
Aladdin | The Happy Family | The Anniversary | Arms and the Man
1972 Season
Finian’s Rainbow | Still Life | The Real Inspector Hound | Hotel Paradiso
1971 Season
Oh, Theydon Bois! | The Killing of Sister George | Hamp
1970 Season
The Sleeping Beauty | Rattle of a Simple Man | Caucasian Chalk Circle | Blythe Spirit
1969 Season
The Boyfriend | The Light of Heart | Goodnight, Mrs. Puffin | Wild Horses
1968 Season
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe | The Glass Menagerie | Ring Round the Moon | Laburnum Grove
1967 Season
Revue – Oh, not again, Ken | Flowering Cherry | Counsellor at Law | The Gazebo
1966 Season
Cinderella | Waters of the Moon | Hay Fever
1965 Season
The Knight and the Dragon | Separate Tables | Present Laughter
1964 Season
A Do About Nothing Much | Something to Hide | Look Out for the Catch
1963 Season
Jack and the Beanstalk | As Long As They’re Happy | Breath of Spring
1962 Season
The Pool by Dragon Gate | The Playgoers | Roar Like a Dove | Sabrina Fair |White Blackmail
1961 Season
Dick Whittington and his Cat | The Circle | When We Are Married | Sailor Beware
1960 Season
Haul for the Shore | Our Town | Waltz of the Toreadors | Still Life | Sunday Costs Five Pesos | Thinking Aloud
1959 Season
Aladdin | The Whole Truth | Arsenic and Old Lace | Teahouse of the August Moon
1958 Season
1958 Cinderella (jointly with The Foresters Drama Group) | Small Hotel
1957 Season
Murder Mistaken | Reluctant Heroes | The Deep Blue Sea | Duet for Two Hounds
1956 Season
For Better For Worse | The Young Elizabeth | Book of the Month | Young Wives Tale
1955 Season
The White Sheep of the Family | Four Winds | And This Was Odd | A Man About the House
1954 Season
And No Birds Sing | Before the Party | Orange Blossom | The House in Fern Road | Scherzo in Two Flats | The Browning Version
1953 Season
The First Mrs. Frazer | Pink String and Sealing Wax | Fools Rush In | Box and Cox | Fumed Oak | Ladies in Retirement | Ten Little Niggers
1952 Season
Travellers Joy | Bonaventure
1951 Season
Miranda | The Shop at Sly Corner | Quiet Weekend | Quiet Wedding | Blithe Spirit
1950 Season
George and Margaret | Fresh Fields | Cry Havoc (A Revue)
1949 Season
A Murder Has Been Arranged
1938 Season
Winter Sunshine | Springtide
1937 Season
The Late Christopher Bean
1936 Season
Fresh Fields | Laburnum Grove
1935 Season
She Passed Through Lorraine | Diplomacy
1934 Season
Yellow Sands
1933 Season
Hawk Island
1932 Season
The Playgoers | The Old Lady Shows Her Medals | Shades of Night | Rookery Nook
1931 Season
Ann | Bird in Hand, Poached Egg and Pearls | The Crimson Coconut
1930 Season
The Sea Urchin
1929 Season
I’ll Leave it to You
1928 Season
The Irresistible Marmaduke | The New Poor
1927 Season
Quality Street | The Rising Generation
1926 Season
Holly Tree Inn | The Man from Toronto
1925 Season
Phipps, The Will, Rest Cure | Dover Road