Category: Thelma Dryden

1960

See How They Run

Wimborne Drama,

8th April, 196023rd October, 2023

So swift is the action, so involved the situations, so rib-tickling the plot in this London hit that at its finish audiences are left as exhausted from laughter as though they had run a foot race.

1957

The Secret Tent

Wimborne Drama,

17th October, 19571st January, 2024

A young wife who has been missing and presumed murdered returns home only to find that her husband’s feelings for her have completely changed.

1957

Dark Brown

Wimborne Drama,

27th September, 195723rd October, 2023

The scene is the living room at the back of Arthur Brown’s tobacconist shop, in a small town near London on the evening of a summer’s day towards the end of the last century.

1957

The Happy Marriage

Wimborne Drama,

12th April, 195723rd October, 2023

Set on a roof garden on a day in the summer of 1952, the play tells the story of Helen and Henry Mansell-Smith who have been happily married for 11 years – but things start to fall apart.

1956

After My Fashion

Wimborne Drama,

20th April, 195623rd October, 2023

A company wants to make a film as tribute to Christian Starcross about his expedition to Tibet, but new revelations about his personal life come to light.

1954

Bonaventure

Wimborne Drama,

29th April, 195423rd October, 2023

A flood in the fen country has trapped two prison officials and their prisoner who is on her way to the gallows for murder. But Sister Mary Bonaventure is convinced of her innocence.

1953

The Holly And The Ivy

Wimborne Drama,

11th December, 195323rd October, 2023

Jenny must give up her love in order to care for her aging parson father. The father in turn is heartsick because he has never had the confidence of his children.

1951

The Linden Tree

Wimborne Drama,

29th November, 195123rd October, 2023

A college professor who has reached the age of retirement is urged by the family to live in comfort away from his gloomy academic surroundings.

1951

The Pageant of Wimborne

Wimborne Drama,

20th June, 19511st January, 2024

It is recorded that Her Gracious Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, visited the Manor of Canford – seat of my lord Mountjoy (and possibly what is known as Merley House) in June 1563.

1951

Saloon Bar

Wimborne Drama,

26th April, 195123rd October, 2023

The play follows the efforts of a group of regulars at a London pub as they try to discover the truth about their friend Will Graves who is due to hang the next day for murder