PAST PRODUCTIONS
TECHNICAL COLLEGE
Click here to see our Recent Shows, all performed at Wolverhampton Arts Centre (formerly Newhampton Arts Centre). We moved there in 2022 and here you can see our Earlier Shows at WAC.
From 2011 to 2020 we performed at The Victory Hall in Lower Penn where we installed black curtains, a lighting rig and raked seating to create a 'black box' theatre.
Between 1999 and 2011 we set up The Malthouse at Wightwick Manor as an intimate studio theatre (thanks in no small part to Monty Smith being both a member of Studio 61 and the retiring property manager at Wightwick).
In 1992 we moved to the Derry Hall at Wolverhampton Grammar School where we presented both 'on stage' and 'in the round' productions.
Prior to this we performed at The Adult Education College in Old Hall Street in the (then) town centre.
The group first produced plays at The Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College in Wulfruna Street, now part of the University.
The society began as a class at the Technical College, labouring under the name of 'The Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College Student and Teachers' Union Dramatic Society'. The current name, Studio 61, was coined in 1961 (probably to save on the cost of ink).
Here is a list of the plays we performed at The Technical College:
- 1970 One Way Pendulum by N F Simpson
- 1961 The Chalk Garden by Edith Bagnold
- 1961 The Plough And The Stars by Sean O'Casey
- 1960 The Curious Savage by John Patrick
- 1960 As You Like It by William Shakespeare
- 1959 The Reluctant Debutant by William Douglas Home
- 1958 Waiting For Godot by Samuel Becket
- 1957 The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
- 1956 A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
- 1955 Arms And The Man by George Bernard Shaw
- 1954 Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
- 1953 He Was Born Gay by Emlyn Williams
- 1952 A Wilderness by Eugene O'Neil
- 1952 Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
- 1950 The Cure For Love by Walter Greenwood
- 1949 The Insect Play by Josef Capek and Karel Capek
- 1947 Tobias And The Angel by James Bridie
- 1946 The Middle Watch by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall
- 1945 Love From A Stranger by Frank Vosper
- 1944 Thunder Rock by Robert Ardrey