Aurora Productions Limited

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rdf:langString Aurora Productions Limited was a British Repertory Theatre Company presenting its majority of plays in The Little Theatre, Great Yarmouth, a seaside holiday resort in the East of England. The Company produced plays by contemporary playwrights on a weekly basis, rehearsing for the following week during the day and performing evenings on six days with a Saturday matinee. Aurora Productions was founded in 1946 with actors largely drawn from the WWII military, post demobilisation. After playing a short season in Falkirk, Scotland, Aurora Productions took over the lease for the Little Theatre, Great Yarmouth, from the incumbent repertory company. Aurora Productions ceased its connection with the Little Theatre at the end of 1951. Though often a poor business venture, repertory theatre was in many cases an actor's first job and training ground, and a springboard to a chosen career in the performing arts. Repertory companies presented a diverse range and high quality of play to an audience often remote from the cultural centres. Aurora Productions was no exception. In the five years Aurora Productions Limited was associated with the repertory theatre, new plays by A P Dearsley, Bridget Chetwynde and John Davenport, and Macgregor Urquhart were staged. The company produced a figure approaching 200 different plays with appearances for 180 and more actors, among which included Ruth Kettlewell, Donald Adams, Richard O'Donoghue, John Franklyn-Robbins, Gabrielle Hamilton, Frank Pemberton, Derek Bond, and Joss Ackland.