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Derby Playhouse, is a theatre situated in Derby, England. It has been operated by Derby Playhouse Ltd since it opened in 1975 although the future of Derby Playhouse Ltd is currently uncertain. The following is a chronological list of productions that have been staged since it opened.
This list currently includes all Main House, in-house professional productions. It currently does not include many Studio, T.I.E., visiting professional or amateur performances.
"Co." indicates a co-production
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[edit]
1975
[edit]
1976
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- A View from the Bridge
- Cowardy Custard
- An Ideal Husband
- The Seagull
- The Norman Conquests
- The Miser
- Enter Sherlock Holmes
- Jack and the Beanstalk
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
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
[edit]
1987
- Our Day Out
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Land of Hope and Gloria
- Waiting for Godot - Studio
- Cider with Rosie
- The Innocent Mistress
- The Children's Hour
- Gas Light
- The Scatterbrained Scarecrow of Oz
[edit]
1988
- Masterpieces
- A Doll's House
- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
- Sunday's Children
- Time and the Conways
- Private Lives
- Germinal
- The Queen of Spades
- Hansel and Gretel
[edit]
1989
- Entertaining Mr Sloane
- Love Games
- Touched
- Noises Off
- The Piggy Bank
- Heartbreak House
- The Art of Success
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Robin Hood
[edit]
1990
- Glory!
- Selling the Sizzle
- Jane Eyre
- Self Portrait
- The School for Wives
- Tons of Money
- Rebecca
- Dick Whittington and His Cat
[edit]
1991
- Teechers
- Double Double
- Hobson's Choice
- The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
- 84 Charing Cross Road
- She Stoops to Conquer
- Hard Times - Studio, Community Tour
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Mother Goose
[edit]
1992
- And a Nightingale Sang
- My Sister Next Door - Studio
- On the Piste
- The Innocents
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Blithe Spirit
- Grease
- Death of a Salesman
- Women in Love - Studio, Community Tour
- On the Piste
- Aladdin
[edit]
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
[edit]
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. Hull Truck
- Cabaret
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Ham - Studio
- Absurd Person Singular
- Jack and the Beanstalk
[edit]
1995
- Richard III
- Our Boys - Co. Incidental Theatre. Transferred to Donmar Warehouse
- Oleanna
- Happy Families
- Assassins
- Derby 100 - Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
- A Passionate Woman - Co. David Pugh Ltd. National Tour
- The Woman in Black - Co P.W. Productions. National Tour
- Comic Cuts - Co. Triptych/Salisbury Playhouse
- Richard III
- Dick Whittington and His Cat
[edit]
1996
- Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Co. 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. Thorndike Theatre
- Pow (play) - Studio, Co. Paines Plough
- Blood Wedding - Co. Northern Stage
- Aladdin
[edit]
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
[edit]
1998
- Taking Steps
- The Oedipus Plays - Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
- Mother Courage - Co. Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Theatre
- Lucky Sods
- The Glass Menagerie
- Off Yer Trolley - Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
- Blues in the Night
- The Collector - Co. Edinburgh Royal Lyceum Theatre
- Anna Karenina - Co. Shared Experience
- Krapp's Last Tape - Studio, Co. RSC
- The Black Dahlia - Co. Method and Madness
- Babes in the Wood
[edit]
1999
- Bouncers
- Twelfth Night - Co. Northern Broadsides
- Coming of Age - Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
- Things Fall Apart - Co. The Performance Studio Workshop of Nigeria
- Boyband
- The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
- Und - Studio, Co. The Wrestling School
- Bouncers
- The Passion Play - Derby Playhouse Community Play
- Soul Train
- Watching the Sand from the Sea
- Masquerade - Co. The State Small Theatre of Vilnius
- Mother Goose
[edit]
2000
- A Clockwork Orange - Co. Northern Stage
- Animal Farm - Co. Northern Stage
- Perfect Days
- Shylock - Studio, Co. 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. Churchill Theatre Bromley
- Sparkleshark - Co. NationalTheatre
- Passing Places
- Cinderella
[edit]
2001
- Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill - Studio
- The Contractor - Co. Oxford Stage Company
- The Blue Room
- Tales of Hans Anderson - Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
- 1984 - Co. Northern Stage
- Danny Bouncing
- Ain't Misbehavin'
- Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill - Studio
- The School for Scandal
- On the Piste
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- A Life in the Theatre
[edit]
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
[edit]
2003
- Educating Rita
- My Dad's Corner Shop
- Viking Tales - Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
- The Entertainer
- Oh, What a Lovely War! - Pro & Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
- Blithe Spirit
- Dracula
- Loot
- A Christmas Carol
[edit]
2004
- Shirley Valentine
- Private Lives
- Josefina - Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
- Sweeney Todd
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Silver Ghosts & Spitfires - Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
- Amadeus
- Frankenstein
- Kafka's Dick
- Merlin & The Winter King
[edit]
2005
- Can't Pay? Won't Pay!
- Mary Stuart
- Hooray for Hollywood - Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
- Company
- Romeo and Juliet
- Bold Nelson's Praise - Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Macbeth
- Serial Killers
- Arabian Nights
[edit]
2006
- Henceforward
- Master Class
- Animal Farm - Pro & Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
- Into the Woods
- A Christmas Carol
[edit]
2007
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Johnno, Co. La Boite Theatre.
- Merrily We Roll Along
- As You Like It
- The Tempest - Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
- Moon Landing
- Stepping Out
- Treasure Island
[edit]
2008
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