We’ve been around for a while – in fact The Nowra Players are Australia’s second oldest continually running community theatre group!
Here is a peek into our history:
1951 – A Quiet Weekend
1952 – Distinguished Gathering
1952 – Pride And Prejudice
1952 – Blythe Spirit
1953 – Death Takes A Holiday
1953 – You Can’t Take It With You
1953 – Arsenic And Old Lace
1954 – Little Lambs Eat Ivy
1954 – Fools Rush In
1954 – Beauty And The Beast
1955 – The Hollow
1955 – Our Town
1956 – After My Fashion
1956 – White Sheep Of The Family
1957 – Fresh Fields
1957 – Dark Summer
1957 – As Long AS They’re Happy
1958 – Miranda
1958 – Interval
1958 – Love Loves A Luxury
1959 – Night Was Our Friend
1959 – The Clown That Ran Away
1959 – Unravel Your Jumper
1960 – Book Of The Month
1960 – Swamp Creatures
1960 – Rainbow Gold
1960 – Relative Values
1961 – The First Joanna
1961 – Local Affair
1961 – Breath Of Spring
1962 – Four And A Bit
1962 – Speaking Of Murder
1963 – Reluctant Debutante
1963 – East Lynne
1963 – See How They Run
1963 – The Women
1964 – The Drunkard
1965 – Ladies In Retirement
1966 – Billy Liar
1967 – Love Rides The Rails
1967 – The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs
1968 – All Things Bright And Beautiful
1968 – The Clown That Ran Away
1969 – Life With The Girls
1969 – Come Blow Your Horn
1969 – The Celltab
1970 – Hullabaloo Belay
1970 – The Bride And The Batchelor
1970 – The Killing Of Sister George
1970 – Aladdin
1971 – Say Who You Are
1971 – Diary Of Anne Frank
1971 – Jack And The Beanstalk
1972 – The Boyfriend
1972 – Fresh Fields
1972 – The Anniversary
1973 – The Trials Of Hillary Pouncefort
1973 – Bonaventure
1973 – A Flea In Her Ear
1974 – Irregular Verb To Love
1974 – Bandwagon
1974 – Water Babies
1974 – Bird In The Hand
1975 – Dimboola
1975 – Man Alive
1976 – Running Riot
1976 – Women Of Twilight
1976 – Egad The Women In White
1976 – Mother Goose
1977 – Our Town
1977 – Relatively Speaking
1977 – Gingerbread Lady
1977 – Rainbow Gold
1978 – Don’t Just Lie There, Say Something!
1978 – Lion In Winter
1979 – Flash Jim Vaux
1979 – Children’s Day
1979 – The Holow
1979 – The Magic Bell
1980 – Tomb With A View
1980 – Three In One Night
1980 – Princess And The Pirates
1981 – Wedding Of The Year
1981 – Catherine
1981 – Bedroom Farce
1981 – Good Old Days
1981 – Alice
1982 – Four Faces Of Love
1982 – Restless Evil
1982 – St. Theresa’s Day
1983 – Flexitime
1983 – Cheery Soul
1983 – The Good Old Days
1983 – Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
1984 – Funny Peculiar
1984 – Lizzie
1984 – Last Of The Red Hot Lovers
1984 – Oliver
1985 – Travelling North
1985 – The Golden Legion Of Cleaning Women
1985 – Comings And Goings
1985 – Good Old Days
1985 – Harding Women
1985 – A Christmas Carol
1986 – Confusions
1986 – A Winter’s Tale
1986 – The Ghost Train
1986 – Bad Day At Black Frog Creek
1987 – The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
1987 – The Imaginary Invalid
1987 – Old Time Music Hall
1987 – Farmdale Women’s Murder
1988 – Separate Tables
1988 – Annie
1989 – Sextet
1989 – Who’s Who
1989 – Old Time Music Hall
1989 – Bye Bye Birdie
1990 – Glass Menagerie
1990 – Emerald City
1990 – The Matchmaker
1991 – Blithe Spirit
1991 – Daylight Saving
1991 – Old Time Music Hall
1991 – Night Must Fall
1992 – Steel Magnolias
1992 – Boeing Boeing
1992 – Cinderella
1993 – Agnes Of God
1993 – 84 Charing Cross Road
1993 – Old Time Music Hall
1993 – The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
1994 – Away
1994 – Caravan
1994 – My Fair Lady
1995 – Mistress Of Novices
1995 – Why Me?
1995 – Old Time Music Hall
1995 – Pinocchio
1996 – Toe In The Water
1996 – Arsenic And Old Lace
1996 – Stepping Out
1996 – Sleeping Beauty
1997 – Triple Bill
1997 – A Time To Kill
1997 – Old Time Music Hall
1997 – A Christmas Carol
1998 – Hotel Sorrento
1998 – Lend Me A Tenor
1998 – Intent To Murder
1999 – Joseph And His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
1999 – Gigi
1999 – Wait Until Dark
1999 – Old Time Music Hall
2000 – Little Shop Of Horrors
2000 – Run For Your Wife
2000 – Cosi
2000 – The Winslow Boy
2000 – Aladdin
2001 – The Prophesy Of Diddle
2001 – A Quiet Weekend
2001 – There Goes The Bride
2001 – Old Time Music Hall
2001 – Jack And The Beanstalk
2002 – Diving For Pearls
2002 – Twelfth Night
2002 – Secret Bridesmaids’ Business
2002 – Camelot
2003 – Gasping
2003 – It Runs In The Family
2003 – Old Time Music Hall
2003 – Guards! Guards!
2004 – The Crucible
2004 – The Importance Of Being Earnest
2004 – Rumors
2004 – Joseph And His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
2005 – Wanted: One Body
2005 – Dead White Males
2005 – Old Time Music Hall
2005 – Mother Goose
2006 – Dancing At Lughnasa
2006 – Caught In The Net
2006 – Life After George
2006 – The Boyfriend
2007 – The Kidnap Game
2007 – It’s My Party (And I’ll Die If I Want To)
2007 – Old Time Music Hall
2007 – The Witches
2008 – Influence
2008 – The Happiest Days Of Your Life
2008 – Mr Bailey’s Minder
2008 – Scrooge
2009 – The Women Of Lockerbie
2009 – She Stoops To Conquer
2009 – Seven Deadly Sins
2009 – The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
2010 – Not Now Darling
2010 – The Peach Season
2010 – Aladdin
2010 – Arcadia
2010 – One Wife Too Many
2011 – Romeo And Juliet
2011 – The Good Doctor
2011 – Red Riding Hood
2011 – Old Time Music Hall
2011 – The Mousetrap
2012 – Eurobeat
2012 – Pack Of Lies
2012 – Sinbad
2012 – Wrong Turn At Lungfish
2012 – Move Over Mrs Markham
2013 – Hallelujah Girls
2013 – Cinderella
2013 – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
2013 – Four Flat Whites In Italy
2014 – Spamalot!
2014 – Moon Over Buffalo
2014 – The Shoehorn Sonata
2014 – Happy Hour
2014 – Female Of The Species
2015 – The Book Of Everything
2015 – Leading Ladies
2015 – Noises Off
2015 – Away
2016 – Camelot! The Panto
2016 – The Ghost Train
2016 – A Month Of Sundays
2016 – Avenue Q
2016 – A Night At The Old Time Music Hall
2017 – Uncle Vanya
2017 – Calendar Girls
2017 – Song Contest – The Eurovision Experience
2017 – The Vicar Of Dibley
2018 – Spamalot – Young@Part
2018 – We Will Rock You
2018 – The Perfect Murder
2018 – The 39 Steps
2018 – A Vicar Of Dibley Christmas – The Second Coming
2019 – So Much To Tell You
2019 – Sense and Sensibility
2019 – Xanadu – The Musical
2019 – Dad’s Army
2020 – MAMMA MIA!
2021 – Forbidden Broadway
2021 – Letters To Lindy
2021 – BASKERVILLE – A Sherlock Holmes Mystery
2021 – Dinkum Assorted
2022 – The Game’s Afoot