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The History of Erith Operatic Society
The Erith Technical College Operatic Society was formed in 1916 as a section of the
Erith Technical College Association, some three years after the formation of the parent
body. The early productions, as the list shows, were all plays and the first one or two
had only ladies in the casts. Bearing in mind the period, this was perhaps not too surprising.
However in 1923 a Choral Group was started and from then until the war a musical and a
dramatic production were performed each year. The musicals were performed in the College
Hall during the Easter vacation and from photographs in our possession it would seem that
some of them were very ambitious productions indeed. The Society continued to develop
until with the coming of war again its activities ceased. The first post-war production,
in 1948, was "The Pirates of Penzance".
Since 1956 the Society has presented its shows at the Guild Playhouse (now Erith Playhouse).
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