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[]
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[]
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]
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External links[]
- Derby Playhouse official website (no longer updated)
- Past versions of the official website dating back to 2001 archived on the Wayback Machine.
- Culture in Derby
- History of Derby
- Theatre company production histories