Open to all residents of Southampton, we are a community amateur dramatic society established in 1965. Our home and rehearsal base is the University of Southampton.
Listed below are details of SUP productions.
Planned for Oct/Nov 2021 – George A Romero’s Night of the Living Dead Live
June 2021 – Stitched Up by Robin Johnson – Totton Festival of Drama 2021 TBC
May 2020 – For The Fallen: Home Front written and compiled by Stephen Fenerty – online
March 2020 (cancelled) – Settling Accounts and The Man On The Floor by Neil Simon – Totton Festival of Drama 2020
January 2020 – The Railway Children by E. Nesbit adapted by Mike Kenny – NST Campus (Nuffield)
October 2019 – London Suite by Neil Simon – Rose Theatre, Eastleigh
March 2019 – And Tell Sad Stories Of The Death of Queens by Tennessee Williams, and Ghost Story by Mark Ravenhill – Totton Festival of Drama 2019
January 2019 – And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie – NST Campus (Nuffield)
March 2018 – Darlings, You Were Wonderful! by Derek Lomas; Bully Beef and Whizzbangs by Chris Hawley (world premiere and overall festival winner) – Totton Festival of Drama 2018
Jan-Feb 2018 – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detection Agency by James Goss and Arvind Ethan David, from the book by Douglas Adams – NST Campus (Nuffield)
April 2017 – What Has Southampton Ever Given Us? by Chris Hawley – Southampton St. George’s Day Festival (performed again with cast changes at SUP Summer BBQ 2017)
March 2017 – Shakers (Edited Version) by John Godber and Jane Thornton – Totton Festival of Drama 2017
Jan-Feb 2017 – Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett, adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs – NST Campus (Nuffield)





















Year | Season | Production | Author | |
2016 | Autumn | Bouncers & Shakers | John Godber | |
Spring | Triple Act | Various | ||
Winter | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | William Shakespeare | ||
2015 | Summer | Happy Families | John Godber | |
Spring | Triple Act | Various | ||
Winter | Absurd Person Singular | Alan Ayckbourn | ||
2014 | Summer | The Great Gatsby | F Scott Fitzgerald | |
Winter | The Diary Of Anne Frank | Wendy Kesselman | ||
2013 | Spring | Triple Act | Various | |
Summer | Immaculate | |||
Autumn | Dear Antoine | Jean Anouilh | ||
2012 | Summer | It Could be Any One of Us | Alan Ayckbourn | |
Winter | Lady Windermere’s Fan | Oscar Wilde | ||
2011 | Summer | Entertaining Angels | Richard Everett | |
Winter | How the Other Half Loves | Alan Ayckbourn | ||
2010 | Summer | Once a Catholic | Mary O’Malley | |
Winter | The Importance of being Earnest | Oscar Wilde | ||
2009 | Summer | Lady in the Van | Alan Bennett | |
Winter | The Forsyte Saga | John Galsworthy | ||
2008 | Summer | Woman in Mind | Alan Ayckbourn | |
Winter | The Government Inspector | Nikolai Gogol | ||
2007 | Summer | Drowning on Dry Land | Alan Ayckbourn | |
Winter | Tartuffe | Moliere | ||
2006 | Summer | Larkrise to Candleford | Keith Dewhurst | |
2005 | Winter | Blithe Spirit | Noel Coward | |
2004 | Winter | Merry Wives of Windsor | William Shakespeare | |
2003 | Winter | Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
2002 | Winter | Confusions | Alan Ayckbourn | |
2001 | Winter | Dancing at Laughnasa | Brian Friel | |
2000 | Winter | Lock up your Daughters | Bernard Miles | |
1999 | Winter | Cold Comfort Farm | Paul Doust | |
1998 | Winter | Communicating Doors | Alan Ayckbourn |