Theatre South Productions was founded in 1992 by husband and wife Alistair and Jacqueline Runciman. They believed that Glasgow needed an amateur dramatics club that was passionate about putting on professional-standard musicals, who understood that enjoyment and the social aspects were an important part of the club, and where there was no place for the ‘committee politics’ so prevalent in other drama clubs.

All these years later and this philosophy still underpins what our club is about.

Producing our shows

First and foremost, we are about singing, dancing and acting. The energy, enthusiasm and talent of our cast, combined with the vision of our production teams and their amazing ability to get the best out of everyone involved are the main reason why audiences enjoy our shows so much.

We don’t accept that because we are an amateur dramatics group, we can’t produce shows of professional quality. That’s why the lighting, orchestra, sound equipment costumes and sets used in our shows are also the same as those used in professional shows.

A very sociable drama club

A close second to the performance, comes the social aspect of the club. After all, when you’ve got over 40 young guys and girls, most of whom have the type of personalities you’d associate with those who enjoy being on stage, just try to stop them enjoying themselves!

From our weekly rehearsals, to fund raising events, rehearsal weekends away, club social nights and the many ad-hoc parties throughout the year, having a good time is really important to the club, and so far we’ve not had to try too hard to make this happen. We don’t think this will change any time soon.

What, no committee?!

So why don’t we have a committee? Well, quite simply, we don’t need one.

Ask most drama club members what the worst thing about their club is, and they say club politics; power-crazy committee members who are only friendly to people when it’s election time, and for whom running a drama club is about making sure they and their mates are alright, and forget anyone else….. does something stink about that or are we the only ones who think so?

At Theatre South Productions, the club is run by the club, for the club. We don’t carry out elections or appoint Secretaries and Presidents and Secretaries to the Presidents…. etc. We just have people that … ‘do’, who keep the club ticking over and who make sure we have everything in place to keep putting on great shows, and we make sure that when it comes to big club decisions, the club as a whole decide. Weird huh?!