Camhayle Theatre Club of Wadebridge, Cornwall was formed in 1977 and the first play performed was ‘ Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime ‘ based on the short story by Oscar Wild. The cast was comprised of many of the founder members.

Camhayle performs at least two plays a year, and over the years have produced plays by Shakespeare, Rettigan, Arthur Miller, Alan Ayckbourn, Shaw and Priestley to name but a few.

Today Camhayle is still going strong, with about fifty members and friends. We have regular play readings and social activities and are always looking for new members.


1977 Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime by Constance Cox

1977 The Happiest Days of Your Life by John Dighton
1977 Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams
1978 The Crucible by Arthur Miller
1978 Blithe Sprit by Noel Coward
1979 The Bear, The Chairs: Printer Sketches
1980 The Lady’s Not For Burning by Christopher Fry
1980 The Heiress by Ruth & Augustus Goetz
1981 The Devil To Pay
1981 The White Liars by Peter Shaffer
1982 Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
1982 The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart &
George S Kaufman
1983 Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw
1983 An Inspector Calls by J B Priestley
1984 The Deep Blue Sea by Terrence Rattigan
1984 Halfway Up The Tree
1985 How The Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn
1985 Toad of Toad Hall by A A Milne
1986 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
1986 Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley
1987 Pack of Lies by Hugh Whitmore
1987 Pride and Prejudice by Jane Kendall
1988 Towards Zero
1989 Doniert, King of Cornwall
1989 Bedroom Farce
1990 The Day After the Fair by Frank Harvey
1990 Farndale by David McGillivray & Walter Zerlin Jr
1991 Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton
1991 Mixed Doubles by Alan Ayckbourn
1991 Sailor Beware by Phillip King & Cary Falkland
1992 A Portrait of Murder by Robert Bloomfield
1992 Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn
1993 Ladies in Retirement by Edward Percy &
Reginold Denham
1993 The Anniversary by Bill MacIlwraith
1993 A Month of Sundays by Bob Larbey
1993 The Full Treatment by Michael Brett
1994 She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
1994 Ten Times Table by Alan Ayckbourn
1994 Dragons In The Cave
1995 Frankenstein the Panto by David Swan
1995 Outside Edge by Richard Harris
1995 Key For Two by John Chapman & David
Freeman

1996 Crown Matrimonial by Royce Ryton

1996 Watch It Sailor by Phillip King & Falkland Cary
1996 Seaon’s Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn
1997 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wild
1997 Summer Sketches
1997 Waiting in the Wings by Noel Coward
1998 The Long and the Short and the Tall by Willis Hall
1998 Murdered to Death by Peter Gordon
1998 The Winslow Boy by Terrence Rattigan
1999 Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn
2000 Out of Focus by Peter Gordon

2001 When We Are Married by J B Priestley

2002 Day of Reckoning by Pam Valentine
2003 Between Mouthfuls & Gosforth’s Fete by Alan
Ayckbourn
2003 Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
2004 Play On by Rick Abbott
2004 Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
2005 Summer End by Eric Chappel
2006 Breath of Spring by Peter Coke
2006 The Odd Couple (female version) by Neil Simon
2007 Hay Fever by Noel Coward
2008 Third Week in August by Peter Gordon
2008 One for the Road by Wille Russell