South East
Ockley Dramatic Society
Dorking, Surrey
South East
Welcome to the South East Region’s section of the website. The Region covers a very wide area including Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Please check out the NODA web pages regularly, especially the committee page to see the Regional Representative that serves you within your district. Do invite them to your productions so that they can build up a positive relationship with your society and thus serve you better. You can always invite the Regional Councillor to join you as well. Regular newsletters are circulated to all societies which are meant to be shared with all members. The NODA South East Facebook page is a particularly good way of advertising your shows throughout the South East and all for FREE!
We currently have the region split into 14 roughly geographic regions for which each district is served by a Regional Representative:
Dist 1 – Mid-Sussex
Dist 2 – East Sussex
Dist 3 – The Weald & South East Sussex
Dist 5 – Kent, Medway & Thanet
Dist 7 – North Kent
Dist 9 – West Sussex
Dist 10 – Portsmouth & East Hampshire
Dist 12 – North West Surrey
Dist 13 – New Forest
Dist 14 – North Hampshire
Dist 16 – Isle of Wight
Dist 17 – Southampton & Mid-Hampshire
Dist 18 – East Hampshire & North West Surrey
Dist 19 – Mid-Surrey
For full details of the regional representatives, click on the Committee tab above - or click here.
I look forward to sharing the joy of amateur theatre with you.
My Granny was a very talented amateur actress, Mum and Dad met in a repertory company when doing “Night Must Fall” and so I didn’t really stand a chance!
At two and a half years old I went to my first ballet lesson, I loved it! At Senior school we did modern dance, and I found my metier. While at school I wrote plays, directed plays and costumed plays. I gained a place at Laban to study for a degree in Dance and Drama. After graduation, I started to teach Drama at a school in Farnham. I worked in a variety of schools and colleges for the next 40 years and I directed so many plays, pantomimes and musicals in my teaching career I have lost count!
How did I get involved with amateur theatre? One day an estate agent came to my house to measure up and he and his colleague took their tape measures out to the walls and then into the middle and out to the other walls and I said to them you look like you’re dancing. They said to me do you know anything about dancing? Before I knew it, I was choreographer and principal dancer for the Guildbury production of “My Fair Lady” and I haven’t really stopped since! I have performed, directed, choreographed, costumed and designed for so many amateur productions. In 1988 I went to a read through of “Pyjama Game” where I met my husband, who is now the NODA Regional Treasurer. My son has played many leads in shows and my granddaughter recently played Gabriel in the school nativity at the age of seven.
I adore the magic of theatre, the effect that you can have on an audience, you can make them laugh, you can make them cry. You can make them think and you can delight them. I love it!