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This Radley Then & Now event celebrates 100 years since the very first Dons' Play at Radley College. You can't keep a good don down. In 1923, the Dons’ Plays became a Radley institution, and so began 100 years of truly bad puns and jolly dodgy costumes. The most popular performances were written in-house. There were pantomimes in the 1940s by Theo Cocks with music composed by Ceddie Borgnis; in the 1960s until the 1980s, Peter Way wrote a series of 'masterspieces' with music composed by Donald Paine. Join us as we look back over a century of total role reversal. What do you remember? And can you still hum the tunes? Radley Then & Now: The Dons' Play took place via Zoom on 18 April 2023. The talk was led by Archivist, Clare Sargent, with contributions from the College’s Director of Drama, Victoria Buse, and former don, Hamish Aird. We are gra ... ... Read moreKeywords
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