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The first production at St. Oswald's - in October 1968 while the hall was still being hired from the church as a makeshift had little sense of occasion about it. A forgettable French farce, Let's Get a Divorce, launched an enterprise which was to flourish. More important work was to come.

The next month saw stronger stuff in Tennessee Williams's The Night of the Iguana (with John Lewis in an astonishingly realistic representation of a centenarian). Our Town was a folksy piece with lots of supers and Graham Orr as the author-narrator. Then A Man for All Seasons, with John Hunter in command as Sir Thomas More. Finally the Lysistrata of Aristophanes to set the seal on the first season of a new era.

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