The first Minute Book of the Rustington Players records that on April 22nd. 1921 it was decided to form an Amateur Dramatic Society.
Later in that year a one-act play, ‘My Lord in Livery’ was performed and in December the first real public performances were held with the addition of ‘Shattered Nerves’ and ‘ The Rest Cure’ (One wonders whether there was any significance in these two titles in this order)
It was then that the first rules were drawn up and the title ‘Rustington Players’ chosen.
The next year’s efforts were reported in the local newspaper (see Newspaper Cutting December 1922)

The first three-act play was Noel Coward’s ‘I’ll Leave It To You’ in 1927.

Unfortunately early programmes have been difficult to trace and the first to appear in the scrapbooks is of ‘Ladies in Retirement’ of 1946.