The University College Nottingham Dramatic Society (DramSoc) was formed in 1927 and performed its first play, A.A. Milne's 'Mr Pim passes by' in the following March. The society offered members an opportunity to read, discuss, produce and enact plays. The late 1950s and early 1960s were a golden age for the society. The production of 'Coriolanus' reached the finals of the National Student Drama Competition, and the 'Taming of the Shrew' enjoyed a week-long tour of Germany. The Society also took George Bernard Shaw's, 'St. Joan' to the outdoor Minack Theatre in Cornwall. DramSoc was disbanded in the 1980s.
Student theatre at the university continued in various forms, increasingly through the New Theatre on campus.
Nottingham's Everyman Club was formed in 1958 to encourage students and local people in the city, who were interested in theatre, to collaborate on productions. The club had some notable successes in the 1960s.
Valerie Stevens (n e Deans) was a student at The University of Nottingham and was clearly involved in student theatre as well as the Everyman Club. She appeared in a number of Dramatic Society productions, including 'The Crucible' in 1960.
From the guide to the Photographs and other records of Valerie Stevens relating to student theatre at The University of Nottingham, 1960-1961, 1960-1961, (The University of Nottingham)
