JOHN GRIFFIN, POETRY ETC.
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Poetry Presentations and Stage Performances
APMH: Ashtead Peace Memorial Hall. StM: St Michael’s Church Hall, Ashtead. TW: Tyrrell’s Wood Golf Club. MH: Menuhin Hall, Stoke D'Abernon

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2020

APRIL
Friday 3rd, 7.45pm - A Tale of Gaia & A Delicate Balance by Kenneth Clelland 
(APMH)
Saturday 4th, 7.30pm  - A Delicate Balance
(St Michael's, Ashtead)
Sunday 5th, 7.30pm - A Delicate Balance (The Holy Name, Esher)
Monday 6th, 7.30pm - A Delicate Balance (All Saints', Ockham)
Wednesday 8th, 7.30pm - A Delicate Balance (St Mary Magdalene, South Holmwood)
Good Friday 10th, 2.00pm - A Delicate Balance (St Michael's, Betchworth)
Good Friday 10th, 7.30pm - A Delicate Balance (All Saints', Isleworth)
Wednesday 15th, 6.30pm - A Delicate Balance (Our Lady and St Peter, Leatherhead)
Wednesday 22nd to Saturday 25th - The Ladykillers by Graham Linehan (as Constable McDonald) (APMH)

MAY
Date TBA - Snakeskin and Fur by Phill Bingham (Leatherhead Drama Festival)


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I N   T H E   P A S T

2019

27th Feb - Snakeskin and Fur by Phill Bingham (as Geoff) (Southern Counties Drama Festival, Oxted)
​2nd April - ‘Evergreens’ (St Paul’s Church, Kingston)
9th June - ‘Green as a river was the barley’ (St Paul’s Church, Tring)
15th June - ‘Green as a river was the barley’ (All Saints Church, Isleworth)
5th November - Inner Wheel Club (Stepping Stones, Westhumble)
20 - 23/11 Ashtead Players: For Services Rendered by Somerset Maugham (Ardsley) (APMH)

2018
27/1 Ashtead Link Group (St George's Hall, Ashtead)
25/3 (Palm Sunday) - Passion Play (St Mary & St Nicholas Church, Leatherhead)
30/3 (Good Friday) - A Delicate Balance by Kenneth Clelland (St Michael's Church, Ashtead)
2/8 & 3/8 - Journey's End (St John's School Theatre)
4/8 & 5/8 - Journey's End by R.C. Sherriff (Leatherhead Theatre)
3/11 - Excerpts from Kipling (Swan Centre, Leatherhead)
21 - 24/11 Ashtead Players: The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley (as Stationmaster, Saul) (APMH)

2017
17/2 My Life in Rhyme for Surrey U3A (MH)
17/3 Short slot for Surrey U3A (MH)
27 - 30/4 Ashtead Players: Hay Fever by Noël Coward (as David Bliss) (APMH)
15/11 Excerpts from 'Kipling' for LC100's inaugural event: a Victorian Music Hall Evening (Leatherhead Theatre)
20/11 Ashtead Probus. 'Christmas is Coming' (TW)
22 - 25/11 Ashtead Players: Deadly Nightcap by Francis Durbridge (as Superintendent Cliff Jordan) (APMH)
2/12 - Excerpts from 'Kipling' (Variety Show) (Green Room Theatre, Dorking)
30/12 - Excerpts from 'Kipling' (Variety Show) (Rosebery Manor, Burgh Heath)

2016
22/2 'Butterflies' WI Group (Bookham)
20 - 23/4 Ashtead Players: Taming of the Shrew (as Petruchio) (APMH)
27/4 'Kipling' (abridged) for Ashtead Townswomen's Guild (APMH)
19/11 Ashtead Men's Breakfast (StM)
23 - 26/11 Ashtead Players: Season's Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn (as Neville) (APMH)
14/12 Banstead Probus (Chalk Lane Hotel, Epsom)

2015
26/2 U3A Banstead (St Mark’s Church Hall, Tadworth)
3/3 ‘Evergreens’ (St Paul’s Church, Kingston)
3/10 - 5/12 Kipling East and West by Brian Clark (APMH, Green Room Dorking, Epsom Playhouse, APMH)
23/10 - 24/10 - A Cock 'n' Bull Story (APMH, Betchworth Village Hall)

2014
10/5 Claygate Men’s Breakfast (Parish Church, Claygate) 
25/9 MVAA Opening event (Fetcham Lodge)
17/10 Surrey U3A: Why the Great Poets were Great (MH)

2013
6/9 ‘Kipling’ by Brian Clark (abridged) (private home)
8/10 Mole Valley Arts Alive (Running Horse, Leatherhead)
17/10 Mole Valley Arts Alive (Fox Revived, Charlwood) 
13/11 Epsom Probus (Cuddington Golf Club)
29/11 ‘Kipling’ by Brian Clark (abridged) (private home)
13/12 Epsom Wives’ Christmas event (StM)

2012
19/5 Surrey Heath Lit Festival (Camberley Theatre)
11/7 Ashtead Women’s Tangent (private home)
15/8 Friends of St George’s Ashtead (St G’s Ch)
9/10 Mole Valley Arts Alive (Running Horse, Leatherhead)
19/11 Ashtead Probus (TW)
22/11 Epsom Wives’ Fellowship (StM)
14/12 Epsom Wives’ Christmas event (StM)

2011
16/5 Ashtead Probus (TW)
21/5 Ashtead Men’s Breakfast (St George’s, Ashtead)
1/6 Friends of Ashtead Village Hall (APMH)
21/9 The ’41 Club’ (Epsom Golf Club)
16/11 Ashtead Women’s Register (private home)

2010

23/1 Ashtead Men’s Breakfast (StM)
11/11 WW1 Poetry for Ashtead U3A (APMH)
25 - 27/11 St Dunstan Players: Season's Greetings (as Eddie) (Adrian Mann Theatre, Ewell)

2008
Summer - Shakespeare’s Venus & Adonis (Private recital)

1974 Box Hill School 'Eisteddfod': Revue (1st Prize)

1973 Box Hill School 'Eisteddfod': Revue (1st Prize)

1972 Box Hill School 'Eisteddfod': Revue (1st Prize)

1971 Box Hill School 'Eisteddfod': Revue (2nd Prize)



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