Derby Playhouse production history

The following is a chronological list of productions staged at the Derby Playhouse from 1975 to 2008. The Derby Playhouse was a theatre production company and the former name of the theatre which it owned and operated from its opening in 1975 until 2008, when the company ceased operating after a period in administration. Situated in Derby, England, the theatre is now known as the Derby Theatre and has been owned and operated by the University of Derby since 2009.^[1][2]

List of past productions 1975–2008[]

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The list includes all Main House, in-house professional productions. It does not include many Studio, Theatre in Education (TIE), visiting professional or amateur performances, such as those of the Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company, whose annual Gilbert and Sullivan shows played at the theatre from 1980 to 2003 and again after the theatre's reopening in 2009.^[2][3]

1970s[]

1975[]

• My Fair Lady^[4]
• Hamlet^[4]
• Lloyd George Knew My Father
• Sleeping Beauty

1976[]

• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
• A View from the Bridge
• Cowardy Custard
• An Ideal Husband
• The Seagull starring Alan Bates^[5]
• The Norman Conquests
• The Miser
• Jack and the Beanstalk

1977[]

• Sleuth
• Macbeth
• A Taste of Honey
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• A Man for All Seasons
• Absurd Person Singular
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Equus
• Mother Goose

1978[]

• Romeo and Juliet
• Private Lives
• Irma La Douce
• Hedda Gabler
• Witness for the Prosecution
• Mrs. Warren's Profession
• Godspell
• Journey's End
• Dick Whittington

1979[]

• What the Butler Saw
• Murderer
• Bedroom Farce
• Donkeys' Years
• In Praise of Love
• Otherwise Engaged
• King Lear
• Privates on Parade
• Aladdin

1980s[]

1980[]

• An Inspector Calls
• Count Dracula
• Loot (play)
• Blithe Spirit
• The School for Scandal
• Whose Life Is It Anyway?
• Rookery Nook
• Pygmalion
• Relatively Speaking
• Cinderella

1981[]

• Night and Day
• Fallen Angels
• The Case of the Oily Levantine
• Habeas Corpus
• Sisterly Feelings
• All My Sons
• The Conspirator
• The Wizard of Oz
• – Studio

1982[]

• Once a Catholic
• Piaf
• See How They Run
• – Studio
• The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Middle Age Spread
• The Gingerbread Man

1983[]

• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
• Play It Again, Sam
• The Elephant Man
• Present Laughter
• Educating Rita
• Julius Caesar
• Taking Steps
• Pinocchio
• The Ghost Train

1984[]

• Dirty Linen and Newfoundland
• The Country Wife
• Stags and Hens
• Terra Nova
• French Without Tears
• Deathtrap
• Trafford Tanzi
• Season's Greetings
• The Meg and Mog Show
• Charley's Aunt

1985[]

• Breezeblock Park
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle
• The Canterbury Tales
• Blood Relations
• You Never Can Tell
• Season's Greetings
• Blood Brothers
• Over the Bar
• Steaming
• The Snow Queen

1986[]

• Tom Jones
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

1987[]

• Our Day Out
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Land of Hope and Gloria
• Waiting for Godot – Studio
• Cider with Rosie
• The Innocent Mistress^[6]
• The Children's Hour^[6]
• Gaslight

1988[]

• A Doll's House
• The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
• ^[6]
• Time and the Conways
• Private Lives
• Germinal
• Hansel and Gretel

1989[]

• Entertaining Mr Sloane
• Touched
• Noises Off
• Wicked Old Nellie by Lucy Gannon^[6] (Studio and tour)
• Heartbreak House
• The Art of Success
• Arsenic and Old Lace
• Robin Hood

1990s[]

1990[]

• Jane Eyre
• The School for Wives^[6]
• Tons of Money
• Rebecca
• Dick Whittington and His Cat

1991[]

• Teechers
• Double Double
• Hobson's Choice, winner of the 1991 TMA Award for Best Overall Production.^[7]
• Last of the Red Hot Lovers
• 84 Charing Cross Road
• She Stoops to Conquer
• Hard Times – Studio, Community Tour
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Mother Goose

1992[]

• And a Nightingale Sang
• – Studio
• On the Piste^[8]
• The Innocents
• Far from the Madding Crowd
• Blithe Spirit
• Grease
• Death of a Salesman
• Women in Love – Studio, Community Tour
• On the Piste^[8]
• Aladdin

1993[]

• Laurel and Hardy – Studio, Community Tour
• A Chorus of Disapproval
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune – Studio
• Children of a Lesser God
• Outside Edge
• A Slice of Saturday Night
• The Lucky Chance
• Two – Studio
• My Cousin Rachel
• Cinderella

1994[]

• April in Paris – Tour in Hull Truck
• Les Liaisons Dangereuses
• An Evening with Gary Lineker
• Someone Who'll Watch Over Me – Studio
• Passion Killers – co-production with Hull Truck
• Cabaret
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• – Studio
• Absurd Person Singular
• Jack and the Beanstalk

1995[]

• Richard III
• Our Boys – co-production with Incidental Theatre. Transferred to Donmar Warehouse
• Oleanna
• Happy Families
• Assassins
• – Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
• A Passionate Woman – co-production with David Pugh Ltd. National Tour
• The Woman in Black – co-production with P.W. Productions. National Tour
• Comic Cuts – co-production with Triptych/Salisbury Playhouse
• Richard III
• Dick Whittington and His Cat

1996[]

• Tess of the d'Urbervilles – co-production with Salisbury Playhouse
• Time of My Life
• My Mother Said I Never Should – Studio
• The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
• Extremities
• Buster's Last Stand – Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
• A Chorus Line
• Gym and Tonic – co-production with Thorndike Theatre
• Pow (play) – Studio, co-production with Paines Plough
• Blood Wedding – co-production with Northern Stage
• Aladdin

1997[]

• The Rivals
• Not a Game for Boys
• – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
• Miss Julie – Studio
• Adam Bede
• Lips Together, Teeth Apart
• – Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
• 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
• Three Viewings – Studio
• The Subtle Art of Boiling Lobsters – Studio
• – Studio
• – Studio
• Sleeping Beauty

1998[]

• Taking Steps
• – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
• Mother Courage – co-production with Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Theatre
• Lucky Sods
• The Glass Menagerie
• – Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
• Blues in the Night
• The Collector – co-production with Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Theatre
• Anna Karenina – co-production with Shared Experience
• Krapp's Last Tape – Studio, co-production with RSC
• The Black Dahlia – co-production with
• Babes in the Wood

1999[]

• Bouncers
• Twelfth Night – co-production with Northern Broadsides
• – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
• Things Fall Apart – co-production with The Performance Studio Workshop of Nigeria
• Boyband
• The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
• Und – Studio, co-production with The Wrestling School
• Bouncers
• – Derby Playhouse Community Play
• Masquerade – co-production with The State Small Theatre of Vilnius
• Mother Goose

2000s[]

2000[]

• A Clockwork Orange – co-production with Northern Stage
• Animal Farm – co-production with Northern Stage
• Perfect Days
• Shylock – Studio, co-production with Guy Masterson Productions
• Pericles – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
• Speaking in Tongues
• Perfect Pitch
• – Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
• God and Stephen Hawking
• Leader of the Pack co-production with Churchill Theatre Bromley
• Sparkleshark – co-production with the National Theatre
• Passing Places
• Cinderella

2001[]

• – Studio
• The Contractor – co-production with Oxford Stage Company
• The Blue Room
• – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
• Nineteen Eighty-Four – co-production with Northern Stage
• Danny Bouncing
• Ain't Misbehavin'
• – Studio
• The School for Scandal
• On the Piste^[8]
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• A Life in the Theatre

2002[]

• Great Expectations
• – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
• Up 'n' Under
• The Browning Version
• Way Upstream
• Life of Galileo – Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
• Dick Whittington

2003[]

• Educating Rita (1 February – 1 March 2003)
• (22 March – 12 April 2003) by Ray Grewal (The play won Grewal the Meyer-Whitworth Award in 2001. This was its first main-stage production)^[9]
• (16 – 19 April 2003) – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
• The Entertainer (26 April – 24 May 2003)
• Oh, What a Lovely War! (31 May – 28 June 2003) – Pro & Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
• Blithe Spirit (6 September – 4 October 2003)
• Dracula (11 October – 1 November 2003) ^[10]
• Loot (8 – 29 November 2003)
• A Christmas Carol (6 December 2003 – 24 January 2004) ^[10]

2004[]

• Shirley Valentine (31 January – 5 February 2004) ^{[11][12][10][13]}
• Private Lives (6 March – 3 April 2004) ^[14][15]
• – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (24 April – 2 May 2004) ^[16][17][18]
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (29 May – 3 July 2004) ^{[19][10][20][21][22][23]}
• (7 – 10 July 2004) – Derby Playhouse Community Theatre ^[24]
• Amadeus (28 August – 25 September 2004) ^{[25][26][27][28][29]}
• Frankenstein (2 – 30 October 2004) ^[30][31][32]
• Kafka's Dick (6 – 27 November 2004) ^[33][34]
• (4 December 2004 – 22 January 2005) ^{[35][36][37][10]}

2005[]

• Can't Pay? Won't Pay! (29 January – 26 February 2005) ^[38][39]
• Mary Stuart (5 – 26 March 2005) - with Big Picture Company ^[40][41][42]
• (30 March – 2 April 2005) – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre ^[43][44]
• Company (16 April – 21 May 2005) ^{[45][46][47][48][49]}
• Romeo and Juliet (28 May – 2 July 2005) ^[50][51][52]
• (6 – 9 July 2005) – Derby Playhouse Community Theatre ^[53]
• Arsenic and Old Lace (20 August – 17 September 2005) ^{[54][55][56][57]}
• Macbeth (24 September – 22 October 2005) ^{[58][59][60][61][54]}
• (29 October – 26 November 2005) ^{[62][63][54][64]}
• Arabian Nights (3 December 2005 – 28 January 2006) ^{[65][66][54][67]}

2006[]

• Henceforward... (4 February – 4 March 2006) ^[68][69][70]
• (11 March – 8 April 2006) ^[71][72]
• Into the Woods (22 April – 20 May 2006) ^{[73][74][17][75]}
• Animal Farm (27 May – 23 June 2006) – Pro & Derby Playhouse Community Theatre ^[76][77][78]
• A Christmas Carol (2 December 2006 – 20 January 2007) ^[79][80][81]

2007[]

• The Importance of Being Earnest (27 January – 24 February 2007) ^[82]
• Johnno (3 – 31 March 2007) co-production with La Boite Theatre.^[17][83][84]
• Merrily We Roll Along (14 April – 19 May 2007) ^[17][85]
• As You Like It (26 May – 23 June 2007) ^[86]
• The Tempest – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
• Moon Landing (6 September – 6 October 2007) starring Glenn Carter (world premiere)^[87][88]
• Stepping Out (13 October – 17 November 2007) ^[89]
• Treasure Island (24 November 2007 – 2 February 2008) adapted by Karen Louise Hebden from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson^[90][91]

2008[]

• The Killing of Sister George (13 September – 11 October 2008) - starring Jenny Eclair and directed by Cal McCrystal.^[92][93]

References[]

External links[]

• Derby Playhouse official website (no longer updated)
• Past versions of the official website dating back to 2001 archived on the Wayback Machine.