Overton Dramatic Society owes its origins to founder members Stella Holbrook and Janet Eves. Casual discussions about a drama group quickly led to an initial meeting of like-minded enthusiasts, chaired by drama teacher John Baxter. Staging of the first plays, "The Monkey's Paw" and "Fumed Oak", followed in the spring of 1980, and ODS was born.
Clive and Meg Green joined the society soon after those first spring shows, and with Clive's professional acting and directing experience, the play "The Happiest Days of your Life" was performed in the autumn, using lighting kit borrowed from the local WI, and scenery and set cobbled together from sheds and attics.
Membership grew with each performance until it was large enough to be able to perform the very first pantomime, "Cinderella", in 1982.
Between the spring of 1980 and today, the Society has performed over 65 different shows, and as well as running two very successful shows each year, the society packs in a busy social calendar
centred in the village, and offers equipment hire and advice to other societies and groups.
Year | Season | Show |
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202 | Spring/Summer | Chicago - The Musical |
2019 | Winter | Flint Street Nativity |
2019 | Spring | Ben Elton's Silly Cow |
2018 | Winter | Alice In Wonderland |
2018 | Summer | Monty Python's Spamalot |
2017 | Autumn/Winter | Jack and the Beanstalk |
2017 | Spring/Summer | Guys and Dolls |
2016 | Autumn/Winter | Treasure Island |
2016 | Spring/Summer | The Importance of Being Earnest |
2015 | Autumn/Winter | The Snow Queen |
2015 | Spring/Summer | Avenue Q |
2014 | Autumn/Winter | The Three Musketeers |
2014 | Spring/Summer | Godspell |
2013 | Autumn/Winter | Pinocchio (the Panto) |
2013 | Spring/Summer | A Flea In Her Ear |
2012 | Autumn/Winter | Camelot - the Panto |
2012 | Spring/Summer | Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street |
2011 | Autumn/Winter | Panto at the OK Corral |
2011 | Spring/Summer | Joe Masteroff's "Cabaret" |
2010 | Autumn/Winter | Once Upon A Time |
2010 | Spring/Summer | Farndale Murder Mystery |
2009 | Autumn/Winter | Cinderella |
2009 | Spring/Summer | The Full Monty |
2008 | Autumn/Winter | Cinderella Interstellar |
2008 | Spring/Summer | The Beggar's Opera |
2007 | Autumn/Winter | Babes in the Wood |
2007 | Spring/Summer | Day of Reckoning |
2006 | Autumn/Winter | I Didn't Do It 'onest! |
2006 | Spring/Summer | Return to the Forbidden Planet |
2005 | Autumn/Winter | Beauty & The Beast |
2005 | Spring/Summer | Love Begins at 50 |
2004 | Autumn/Winter | Treasure Island |
2004 | Spring/Summer | A Right Victorian Knees-Up |
2003 | Autumn/Winter | Scrooge |
2003 | Spring/Summer | Starlight Memoirs |
2002 | Autumn/Winter | Old King Cole... In Space! |
2002 | Spring/Summer | Home Is Where Your Clothes Are! |
2001 | Autumn/Winter | Arabian Nights |
2001 | Spring/Summer | Farndale Christmas Carol |
2000 | Autumn/Winter | Snow White & The 7 Dwarfs |
2000 | Spring/Summer | All the Best! |
1999 | Autumn/Winter | Star Trail |
1999 | Spring/Summer | Little Shop of Horrors |
1998 | Autumn/Winter | Jack & The Beanstalk |
1998 | Spring/Summer | Raising the Roof |
1997 | Autumn/Winter | Adventures of Mr Toad |
1997 | Spring/Summer | 20th Century Review |
1996 | Autumn/Winter | Aladdin |
1996 | Spring/Summer | Brush with a Body |
1995 | Autumn/Winter | Tom the Piper's Son |
1995 | Spring/Summer | Off the Hook |
1994 | Autumn/Winter | Alice In Wonderland |
1994 | Spring/Summer | Good Old Days |
1993 | Autumn/Winter | Dick Whittington |
1993 | Spring/Summer | Farndale Castle |
1992 | Autumn/Winter | Hickory Dickory Dock |
1992 | Spring/Summer | Opening Soon |
1991 | Autumn/Winter | Wizard Of Oz |
1991 | Spring/Summer | No Time for Fig Leaves |
1990 | Autumn/Winter | Cinderella |
1990 | Spring/Summer | International Cabaret |
1989 | Autumn/Winter | Scrooge |
1989 | Spring/Summer | Clerical Errors |
1988 | Autumn/Winter | Mother Goose |
1988 | Spring | Farndale Macbeth (May) |
1988 | Summer | Old Time Music Hall (August) |
1987 | Autumn/Winter | Star Trail |
1987 | Spring/Summer | Showtime |
1986 | Autumn/Winter | Sleeping Beauty |
1986 | Spring/Summer | The Right Spirit/Fishy Business |
1985 | Autumn/Winter | Captain Coley's Fishy Tales |
1985 | Spring/Summer | Variety Show |
1984 | Autumn/Winter | Jack & The Beanstalk |
1984 | Spring/Summer | Man Alive |
1983 | Autumn/Winter | Aladdin |
1983 | Spring/Summer | Two & Two Makes Sex |
1982 | Autumn/Winter | Cinderella |
1982 | Spring/Summer | Midsummer Mink |
1981 | Autumn/Winter | Murder at the Vicarage |
1981 | Spring/Summer | Continental Quilt |
1980 | Autumn/Winter | Happiest Days of Your Life |
1980 | Spring/Summer | The Monkey's Paw/Fumed Oak |