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 The Crucible by Arthur Miller
- 1970 One Way Pendulum by N F Simpson
- 1969 The Playboy Of The Western World by J M Synge
- 1969 The Way Of The World by William Congreve
- 1969 Uncle Harry by Thomas Job
- 1968 The Telescope by R C Sherriff
- 1968 The Rose Without A Thorn by Clifford Box
- 1967 Miracle At Midnight by Tom Fleming
- 1967 A Resounding Tinkle by N F Simpson and The Bald Prima Donna by Eugene Ionesco
- 1967 An Inspector Calls by J B Priestley
- 1967 Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler
- 1966 The Heiress by Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz
- 1966 The Reluctant Peer by William Douglas Home
- 1966 East Lynne by Mrs Henry Wood and Brian J Burton
- 1965 Red Roses For Me by Sean O'Casey
- 1965 Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov
- 1965 The Complaisant Lover by Graham Greene
- 1964 Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
- 1964 Three: The Form by N F Simpson, Lunch Hour by John Mortimer and A Slight Ache by Harold Pinter
- 1964 Macbeth by William Shakespeare (combined production with The Shakespeare Society)
- 1963 Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
- 1963 The Waltz Of The Toreadors by Jean Anouilh
- 1962 Hay Fever by Noel Coward
- 1962 The Entertainer by John Osborne
- 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 Ah, 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