Category: Joe (Arthur) Brooks

A list of productions that Joe has been involved in either as an actor, director or part of the backstage and supporting team.

1990

Charley’s Aunt

Wimborne Drama,

29th March, 199010th March, 2025

Jack and Charley persuade their friend, an undergraduate Lord Fancourt Babberley, to impersonate an aunt. The complications of the plot begin with the arrival of the real aunt.

1989

Larkrise

Wimborne Drama,

20th June, 198910th March, 2025

Larkrise depicts the lives of a small rural community in Oxfordshire from a harvest day in the late 19th century up to calling the names of the village dead in the First World War.

1989

Sailor Beware!

Wimborne Drama,

16th March, 198910th March, 2025

A.B. Albert Tufnell is anxious that his fiancée, Shirley, should not take after her mother, Emma. Albert’s only defence is to go AWOL and not to turn up at church.

1988

Pack of Lies

Wimborne Drama,

20th October, 198810th March, 2025

All is blissful in their world until a detective from Scotland Yard asks the Jackson family to use their house as an observation station to try and foil a Soviet spy ring operating in the area.

1988

Streuth

Wimborne Drama,

15th July, 198810th March, 2025

This is a crime story that not even Agatha Christie would have dared to write and it gets itself into such confusion that it is doomed, apparently, to perpetual motion.

1988

Martyred Wives

Wimborne Drama,

15th July, 198810th March, 2025

Most people have heard of the Tolpuddle Martyrs of 1834, but what of their wives, the women behind the men in that troubled strife? This is the story of those women.

1988

Quiet Weekend

Wimborne Drama,

17th March, 198810th March, 2025

Mildred and Arthur Royd, Marcia’s parents, own a country cottage intended for quiet week-ends. It does not, however, work out that way on some occasions.

1987

House Guest

Wimborne Drama,

22nd October, 198710th March, 2025

Robert and Stella learn that their son has been kidnapped – not for ransom, but to force them to allow one of the kidnappers to remain in their house.

1987

The Matchmaker

Wimborne Drama,

12th March, 198710th March, 2025

Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century Yonkers, NY, has a plan. He has been a widower for long enough and now he wants to find a wife.

1986