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.
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, 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 2009.1970s
1975
- My Fair Lady
- Hamlet
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- Sons of the Beach
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- 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
- The Children's Hour
- Gaslight
- The Scatterbrained Scarecrow of Oz
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
1989
- Entertaining Mr Sloane
- Love Games
- Touched
- Noises Off
- The Piggy Bank
- Wicked Old Nellie by Lucy Gannon
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- The Innocents
- Far from the Madding Crowd
- Blithe Spirit
- Grease
- Death of a Salesman
- Women in Love – Studio, Community Tour
- On the Piste
- 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 – 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
- – 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
- 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
- My Dad's Corner Shop by Ray Grewal
- 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
2004
- Shirley Valentine
- Private Lives
- Josefina – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Silver Ghosts & Spitfires – Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
- Amadeus
- Frankenstein
- Kafka's Dick
- Merlin & The Winter King
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
2006
- Henceforward...
- Master Class
- Animal Farm – Pro & Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
- Into the Woods
- A Christmas Carol
2007
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Johnno, co-production with La Boite Theatre.
- Merrily We Roll Along
- As You Like It
- The Tempest – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
- Moon Landing starring Glenn Carter
- Stepping Out
- Treasure Island, adapted by Karen Louise Hebden from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson
2008
- The Killing of Sister George starring Jenny Eclair and directed by Cal McCrystal.