Now that another amazing show is under way🎭. We can start looking towards our next show in September, DAD’S ARMY.⭐️⭐️⭐️Open Casting Announcement⭐️⭐️⭐️ Both men and women (18 years +) are needed.Acting roles and backstage roles (lighting, stage managing, prompting, props, wardrobe, front of house) required. The play is made up of 3 separate episodes.🎭The Deadly … Continue reading Open Casting Call for next play – Dad’s Army
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Another Agatha Christie success
Last night was opening night for our June play ‘A Murder is Announced’ by Agatha Christie. We dedicated this show to a long standing DDS member, our friend Bill Dewar who recently passed away. Bill was an amazing man, full of stories, warmth, and always good for friendly advice and performance feedback. We will miss … Continue reading Another Agatha Christie success
CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF DDS
Wow I cannot believe we are into our centenary year! 2024 marks our 100 year celebration. Dundee Dramatic Society was founded by a group of like minded individuals in November 1924 and has for the last 100 years been putting on shows (the majority of the time from our home at The Little Theatre). This … Continue reading CELEBRATING 100 YEARS OF DDS
A stage full of weapons! Deathtrap
Another successful play for DDS. Deathtrap played to almost full houses and the audiences loved it. The twists and turns kept them guessing and the actors did an amazing job of bringing their characters to life. This has been an amazing play to direct. One of our shortest rehearsal periods and we smashed it out … Continue reading A stage full of weapons! Deathtrap
Sell out for Agatha Christie
Our director Elma was delighted to put up the 'Full House' sign over several of our performances of The Stranger. Audiences really enjoy Agatha Christie, and even though this was a lesser known one, it was still an enjoyable twist. Our next play has been cast and we are excited to announce that Gill Hunter … Continue reading Sell out for Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie’s tense thriller ‘The Stranger’
Agatha Christie makes a return to the Little Theatre, The Stranger is a tense psychological thriller adapted from the novel Philomel Cottage. Enid meets a handsome and charismatic stranger Gerald, and leaves her fiance for him. They move to an idyllic cottage in the countryside, but not everything is as it seems. Casting has taken … Continue reading Agatha Christie’s tense thriller ‘The Stranger’
39 Steps success!
Wow, what an amazing run - most of the shows were sold out. This was an hilarious adaptation of Hitchcock's 39 Steps, and with some stage ninja know how, we managed to transport our audiences from London to Scotland then back again. This has been a fun show to produce and our audience members loved … Continue reading 39 Steps success!
Exiting the station! Time for another one…
Saturday was the final performance of The Girl on the Train. Director Jacob Harrison wanted to try something new, use sound, light and projection together to help tell the story, and it worked very well. It was exciting to use new equipment to tell a story in a different way and it sounded like our … Continue reading Exiting the station! Time for another one…
1 night to go!
The Unexpected Guest Cast L-R. Jamie Flynn; Sarah Pelle; Sinclair Ross; Erik Ramsay; Arina Wright; Alan Sunter; Kris Forrester; Marjory Robertson; Gerard Ryan. The stage is set. Everyone is ready to welcome our first audiences of 2022.
14 days until curtain up!
14 days until the curtain rises on our next production of The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie. Tickets are £12 and you can buy them from Dundee box office now. The cast and crew have been working very hard over the last couple of months and everything is coming together. The excitement is building, especially … Continue reading 14 days until curtain up!