Archive

The Barn Theatre, Southwick Community Centre

1948 – the present

The Wick Theatre Company Database

We have done our best to gather material relating to the Company’s productions, cast and crew involved, full-length and one-act festivals and miscellaneous activities.

If you any clippings, scrap-books, photographs that would enhance our collection then please please email.

Our Lineage

[1] 1950 as the “Unity Players” performing in the Red Triangle Club, in the Twitten, Southwick
[2] 1951 as the “The Young Wick Players” performing in The Barn Theatre, Southwick Community Centre
[3] 1962 as the “Wick Theatre Company” performing in The Barn Theatre, Southwick Community Centre

Seasons – A year-long season starts following the AGM in late September early October but to facilitate order we have indexed our productions by year.

Productions – An ever expanding collection of Wick Theatre Company productions; those involved and any related ephemera and photographs. Each production having a unique ID number. Built around an incremental 3 figure number + yy + mm: And this reference number appears in the URL.

Each production has two extra pages containing [1] an Archive page and [2] a Gallery page

Photographers

There have been a number of committed photographers whom we should rcogniase

Lucien Bouchy
Miles Davies
Ian Elliott
John Elliott
Isi Fink
Ray Hopper
George Laye
Ian Leavey
Phil Nair-Brown
Sam Taylor
Gary Walker

[ The photographer for a production’s foyer display or publicity, prior to the 2000’s was rarely given credit for their efforts – Ian Leavey, Ian and John Elliott come to mind. I have listed those I can recall and researching the archived programmes will determine who photographed which production. ]

For many years the local paper/s send a photographer to take publicity stills and these publications are acknowledged : Brighton Argus, Shoreham Herald aka Adur Herald aka Herald, Worthing Herald, Brighton and Hove Gazette, Brighton and Hove Herald, West Sussex Gazette.

And in the late 1950’s for our earliest productions we used Elsye Markwick [4 George Street Brighton] for our head shots for foyer display purposes. I am planning a blog about Elsye [August 2026]

Competitions – Full-length competitions and one-act festivals

[1] Full-Length Drama Competitions
[2]

Past Performances

Cast – Crew – Publicity – Reviews – Pictures

Cast & Crew

Cast and Crew – Archive page for each individual mentioned in a Production’s programme

Festivals

Southwick Community Centre One-Act Drama Festivals : 1954 – 1995

Full-Length Drama Competitions

Sussex Full-Length Drama Festival : inaugurated 1960 – partitioned 1966 [pages not yet built – 2021]

West Sussex Full-Length Drama Festival : inaugurated 1966 [pages not yet built – 2021]

Brighton & District Drama Association : Wick Theatre Company’s involvement : 1973 – 1977

Brighton & Hove Arts Council : 1984 – present