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

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
• Enter Sherlock Holmes
• 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
• Ten Times Table
• 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?
• Murder with Love
• Rookery Nook
• Pygmalion
• Clouds
• Relatively Speaking
• Cinderella

1981

• Funny Peculiar
• Night and Day
• Fallen Angels
• The Case of the Oily Levantine
• Habeas Corpus
• Sisterly Feelings
• All My Sons
• The Conspirator
• No More Sitting on the Old School Bench
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Adult Panto – Studio

1982

• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
• Once a Catholic
• Piaf
• See How They Run
• When can I have a Banana Again – Studio
• Happy as a Sandbag
• The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Operation Bad Apple
• Middle Age Spread
• The Gingerbread Man
• Dry Rot

1983

• Having a Ball!
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
• Play It Again, Sam
• The Elephant Man
• Present Laughter
• Having a Ball!
• 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
• Love Bites
• 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

• The Anastasia File
• Intimate Exchanges :- Affairs in a Tent & A One Man Protest
• Sons of the Beach
• Intimate Exchanges :- A Pageant & A Game of Golf
• Tom Jones
• The Brewery Beano
• It's a Madhouse
• 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
• The Scatterbrained Scarecrow of Oz

1988

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

1989

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

1990s

1990

• Glory!
• Selling the Sizzle
• Jane Eyre
• Self Portrait
• 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
• My Sister Next Door – 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
• Blood Money
• Passion Killers – co-production with Hull Truck
• Cabaret
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• Ham – 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 100 – 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
• Eleanor Rigby – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
• Miss Julie – Studio
• Adam Bede
• Lips Together, Teeth Apart
• By the Baseball Ground – Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
• The Grapevine
• 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
• Mr Wonderful
• Three Viewings – Studio
• The Subtle Art of Boiling Lobsters – Studio
• Female, 29, GSOH – Studio
• Price of a Good Dinner – Studio
• Sleeping Beauty

1998

• Taking Steps
• The Oedipus Plays – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
• Mother Courage – co-production with Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Theatre
• Lucky Sods
• The Glass Menagerie
• Off Yer Trolley – 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 Method and Madness
• Babes in the Wood

1999

• Bouncers
• Twelfth Night – co-production with Northern Broadsides
• Coming of Age – 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
• The Passion Play – Derby Playhouse Community Play
• Soul Train
• Watching the Sand from the Sea
• 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
• No Fishing! – 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

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

2002

• Great Expectations
• Misconceptions
• Class of '77 – 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)
• My Dad's Corner Shop (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]
• Viking Tales (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]}
• Josefina – 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]}
• Silver Ghosts & Spitfires (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]}
• Merlin & The Winter King (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]}
• Hooray for Hollywood (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]}
• Bold Nelson's Praise (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]}
• Serial Killers (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]}
• Master Class (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.