Colin Dolley - full credits
« return to Colin’s profileColin has been involved in 72 RDG productions. Listed below are the productions we have in our online database where Colin has a credit of any kind.
The Admirable Crichton |
In 1990 THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON was last open-air production we presented at the Manor Farm Gardens before the local council removed the attractive shrubbery which formed the background to our prese... almost 34 years ago |
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass |
17th Production. A mammoth cast of over 50, the play took a year to produce. about 68 years ago |
Aspects of Keith |
This night production was devised and presented in 1990 by the company in memory of Keith Munks, one of our much-loved active members who had died earlier in the year. The evening comprised songs, ... about 34 years ago |
Blondel |
BLONDEL was the first musical written by Tim Rice after his split with Andrew Lloyd Webber. It tells in a light-hearted jokesy way the colourful life of the 12th century troubadour accompanied by e... over 35 years ago |
Cavalcade |
over 33 years ago |
A Chorus of Disapproval |
A Chorus of Disapproval was a milestone RDG production as in 1989 it was selected to mark our one hundredth Main Production. It was felt to be an apt choice as the play concerns an amateur theatri... about 35 years ago |
Conduct Unbecoming |
about 39 years ago |
Dear Diary |
Many of us use a diary to record not just milestones in our lives, but also to express inner thoughts and deep emotions; equally, music, song and dance can express profound feelings as we move thro... about 23 years ago |
First Time |
about 36 years ago |
For Your Entertainment |
23rd Production. A revue consisting of "The Last Day of Term" by H M Paull, A Musical Interlude and "Mary Contrary" by C H Luckham (a play first performed in 1951). This was the last production st... over 65 years ago |
The Green Jug |
4th production. Presented within a triple bill alongside Auntie's Venture and Mary Contrary almost 73 years ago |
The Happiest Days of your Life (1) |
22nd Production. One of the few plays to be produced twice - exactly 25 years later in 1983. almost 66 years ago |
The Happiest Days of Your Life (2) |
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Housemaster |
18th production. Showing an ever increasing level of professionalism with an attractive realistic set and excellent costumes. A critic in the local press, The Staines and Egham News, ran to nearly ... over 67 years ago |
Inherit the Wind |
over 32 years ago |
The Land of the Christmas Stocking |
21st production. over 66 years ago |
The Magic Piper |
10th Production. almost 71 years ago |
Man of the Moment |
over 29 years ago |
More to Love |
A musical celebration of love with songs from "Salad Days", "Chess", "Sweeney Todd" and "Aspects of Love"" almost 29 years ago |
The Other Children(1) |
15th production. The play meanders through Treasure Island, The Water Babies, Little Women and Alice in Wonderland. The Other Children had its own special appeal, with over fifty in the cast. It is... over 69 years ago |
Passion Play |
Peter Nicols\' clever, ingenious play is a dissection of adultery. The title contains a deliberate pun for this is a play about sexual love and suffering and the fragile line which divides them. Bo... almost 21 years ago |
The Purification (Festival) |
about 43 years ago |
Seasons Greetings |
over 37 years ago |
Seven Ages of Man |
almost 43 years ago |
Ten Times Table |
about 42 years ago |
Tom Jones (2) |
162nd Production. First presented by RDG in 1973. Based on the classic novel by Henry Fielding, this stage version of “Tom Jones” has been described as ‘a rich, ripe and bawdy romp’, but for all ... over 13 years ago |
The Visit |
This fascinating folk play is in turn intriguing, poetic, funny, atmospheric and highly theatrical. It also makes for a thought provoking evening. Duerrenmatt's macabre parable is his most grotesq... over 26 years ago |
Whose Life is it Anyway? |
over 42 years ago |
27 Wagons Full of Cotton (Festival) |
over 36 years ago |
All My Sons |
Performed between 31st March to 3rd April 1999, Magna Carta Theatre, Staines. The 31st March was a Schools performance, other nights were open to the general public. America's most famous living p... about 25 years ago |
All that JazZ - an A - Z of Musicals |
All that JazZ (an A to Z of Musicals) The musical romp through the alphabet is fast approaching and so I set out below the programme for you all to digest. This is what we hope will be the final ... almost 14 years ago |
Amadeus |
almost 38 years ago |
Aspects of Keith |
This night production was devised and presented in 1990 by the company in memory of Keith Munks, one of our much-loved active members who had died earlier in the year. The evening comprised songs, ... about 34 years ago |
Bedroom Farce |
about 43 years ago |
The Beggar's Opera |
179th Production. The Beggar’s Opera transports us to a grubby London in the eighteenth century. It’s a world of dashing Highwaymen and women of easy virtue. The pulsating score with lilting folk m... over 7 years ago |
Billy |
over 25 years ago |
The Birthday Party |
Setting - A seaside boarding house. Period 1958 Two sinister strangers arrive at a run-down boarding house enquiring about Stanley Webber, an erstwhile piano player, on the eve of his birthday. S... about 13 years ago |
Cecily (Festival) |
This production is unique in the RDG History. The playwright Gillian Plowman had seen our production of Agnes of God; subsequently she sent her new play Cecily to us suggesting we might like to pro... over 33 years ago |
The Cripple of Inishmaan |
Like many Irish plays, The Cripple of Inishmaan combines humour, poignancy and a warm life-enhancing quality in the strong story-telling tradition. Although the play is set on the remote island o... over 17 years ago |
Dancing at Lughnasa |
This beautiful, lyrical, nostalgic play is set in remote Donegal where five unmarried sisters are trapped in the explosive tension of their frustration, fired by the conflicting impulse of religiou... over 28 years ago |
The Elephant Man |
The play tells the well-known heartrending true story of John Merrick and the Victorian society which exploited his repulsively deformed body. It makes for highly charged theatre. almost 28 years ago |
Entertaining Mr Sloane (Act One) (Festival) |
over 39 years ago |
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum |
about 28 years ago |
Genesis (Festival) |
An originally devised collection of prose, poetry, song and drama on the theme of creation and man's destruction of nature. over 44 years ago |
Habeas Corpus (2) |
Written in the early seventies, Habeas Corpus has proved one of Alan Bennett’s most popular plays. Rather like a satirical merry-go-round, it is a broad comedy written at a time when the phrase ~ ‘... almost 13 years ago |
Humble Boy |
187th Production. Set in a flower-filled garden on the edge of the Cotswolds this is a comedy tinged with sadness. On the surface this play- which won numerous Best Play Awards following its origi... over 4 years ago |
The Last Apache Reunion |
over 27 years ago |
The Last Yankee (Festival) |
almost 25 years ago |
Les Liaison Dangereuses |
over 29 years ago |
A Little Like Drowning |
This play is one of love won and lost, retold through the reflections of 72 year old Nonna. At home and as she walks on the beach with her granddaughter, we see her life past and present in juxtapo... about 19 years ago |
The Long and the Short and the Tall (Festival) |
about 33 years ago |
Making History |
166th Production. The year is 1591. In England, Elizabeth I is on the throne, Shakespeare is at his peak, and the Reformation is effectively over. In Ireland, various factions and clans are held ... about 12 years ago |
Man of the Moment |
over 29 years ago |
Maurice Dancing (Festival) |
over 41 years ago |
My Friend and Me (Festival) |
about 30 years ago |
My Night With Reg |
This play established its credentials in London where it won rave reviews and amongst others the 1995 Olivier Award for Best Comedy. Tragi-comedy would be a more apt description. While the three in... over 21 years ago |
Neville's Island |
Perhaps best known for his work writing Preston Front for TV, Tim Firth wrote this play firstly for production at Alan Ayckbourn's 'home' theatre (the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough) in 1992. ... about 26 years ago |
Noises Off |
The play is a farce, in fact a farce within a farce, taking the cliches of the genre and shaking them inventively through a series of kaleidescope patterns. The first act is a pastiche of tradition... over 24 years ago |
Proof |
169th production. Proof is a 2000 play by American playwright David Auburn. Premiered Off-Broadway in May 2000, it transferred to Broadway theatre in October 2000. The play won the 2001 Pulitzer Pr... about 11 years ago |
The Real Inspector Hound (Festival) |
Our one act drama festival entry in 1976 winning Staines Festival and the Stage Presentation Award and going on to the Divisional final in Kettering. It also entered the Maidenhead Festival and the... about 48 years ago |
RolePlay |
This play takes us into familiar Ayckbourn territory - one liners - tense silences - and the desperate efforts to end them; all fuelled by strongly drawn characters and escalating tension. The pl... almost 15 years ago |
The Room (Festival) |
over 38 years ago |
A Roomful of Holes (Festival) |
Entry in the 1975 Woking Drama Festival (adjudicator Gordon Luck). This was the first Woking festival at the new Rhoda McGaw Theatre (formerly Centre Halls) in the new Peacocks complex. This was ou... over 48 years ago |
Sisterly Feelings |
almost 40 years ago |
Smile (Festival) |
over 32 years ago |
A Street Car Named Desire |
over 30 years ago |
Twelfth Night |
Directed by Jane Walters. RDG's first foray into the world of Shakespeare, our production was a lively ensemble piece, simple set and costumed (modern) accompanied by specially composed music, song... almost 25 years ago |
Woman in Mind |
almost 27 years ago |
| Best Director | Colin Dolley | Woking Festival - 1990 |