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Template:EngvarB Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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]
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List of past productions 1975–2008
Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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
- 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 (1Script error: No such module "String".FebruaryTemplate:Snd1Script error: No such module "String".March 2003)
- My Dad's Corner Shop (22Script error: No such module "String".MarchTemplate:Snd12Script error: No such module "String".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 (16Template:Snd19Script error: No such module "String".April 2003) – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
- The Entertainer (26Script error: No such module "String".AprilTemplate:Snd24Script error: No such module "String".May 2003)
- Oh, What a Lovely War! (31Script error: No such module "String".MayTemplate:Snd28Script error: No such module "String".June 2003) – Pro & Derby Playhouse Community Theatre
- Blithe Spirit (6Script error: No such module "String".SeptemberTemplate:Snd4Script error: No such module "String".October 2003)
- Dracula (11Script error: No such module "String".OctoberTemplate:Snd1Script error: No such module "String".November 2003)[10]
- Loot (8Template:Snd29Script error: No such module "String".November 2003)
- A Christmas Carol (6Script error: No such module "String".December 2003Template:Snd24Script error: No such module "String".January 2004)[10]
2004
- Shirley Valentine (31Script error: No such module "String".JanuaryTemplate:Snd5Script error: No such module "String".February 2004) [11][12][10][13]
- Private Lives (6Script error: No such module "String".MarchTemplate:Snd3Script error: No such module "String".April 2004)[14][15]
- Josefina – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (24Script error: No such module "String".AprilTemplate:Snd2Script error: No such module "String".May 2004)[16][17][18]
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (29Script error: No such module "String".MayTemplate:Snd3Script error: No such module "String".July 2004)[19][10][20][21][22][23]
- Silver Ghosts & Spitfires (7Template:Snd10Script error: No such module "String".July 2004) – Derby Playhouse Community Theatre[24]
- Amadeus (28Script error: No such module "String".AugustTemplate:Snd25Script error: No such module "String".September 2004)[25][26][27][28][29]
- Frankenstein (2Template:Snd30Script error: No such module "String".October 2004)[30][31][32]
- Kafka's Dick (6Template:Snd27Script error: No such module "String".November 2004)[33][34]
- Merlin & The Winter King (4Script error: No such module "String".December 2004Template:Snd22Script error: No such module "String".January 2005)[35][36][37][10]
2005
- Can't Pay? Won't Pay! (29Script error: No such module "String".JanuaryTemplate:Snd26Script error: No such module "String".February 2005)[38][39]
- Mary Stuart (5Template:Snd26Script error: No such module "String".March 2005) – with Big Picture Company[40][41][42]
- Hooray for Hollywood (30Script error: No such module "String".MarchTemplate:Snd2Script error: No such module "String".April 2005) – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre[43][44]
- Company (16Script error: No such module "String".AprilTemplate:Snd21Script error: No such module "String".May 2005)[45][46][47][48][49]
- Romeo and Juliet (28Script error: No such module "String".MayTemplate:Snd2Script error: No such module "String".July 2005)[50][51][52]
- Bold Nelson's Praise (6Template:Snd9Script error: No such module "String".July 2005) – Derby Playhouse Community Theatre[53]
- Arsenic and Old Lace (20Script error: No such module "String".AugustTemplate:Snd17Script error: No such module "String".September 2005)[54][55][56][57]
- Macbeth (24Script error: No such module "String".SeptemberTemplate:Snd22Script error: No such module "String".October 2005)[58][59][60][61][54]
- Serial Killers (29Script error: No such module "String".OctoberTemplate:Snd26Script error: No such module "String".November 2005)[62][63][54][64]
- Arabian Nights (3Script error: No such module "String".December 2005Template:Snd28Script error: No such module "String".January 2006)[65][66][54][67]
2006
- Henceforward... (4Script error: No such module "String".FebruaryTemplate:Snd4Script error: No such module "String".March 2006)[68][69][70]
- Master Class (11Script error: No such module "String".MarchTemplate:Snd8Script error: No such module "String".April 2006)[71][72]
- Into the Woods (22Script error: No such module "String".AprilTemplate:Snd20Script error: No such module "String".May 2006)[73][74][17][75]
- Animal Farm (27Script error: No such module "String".MayTemplate:Snd23Script error: No such module "String".June 2006) – Pro & Derby Playhouse Community Theatre[76][77][78]
- A Christmas Carol (2Script error: No such module "String".December 2006Template:Snd20Script error: No such module "String".January 2007)[79][80][81]
2007
- The Importance of Being Earnest (27Script error: No such module "String".JanuaryTemplate:Snd24Script error: No such module "String".February 2007)[82]
- Johnno (3Template:Snd31Script error: No such module "String".March 2007) co-production with La Boite Theatre.[17][83][84]
- Merrily We Roll Along (14Script error: No such module "String".AprilTemplate:Snd19Script error: No such module "String".May 2007)[17][85]
- As You Like It (26Script error: No such module "String".MayTemplate:Snd23Script error: No such module "String".June 2007)[86]
- The Tempest – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre
- Moon Landing (6Script error: No such module "String".SeptemberTemplate:Snd6Script error: No such module "String".October 2007) starring Glenn Carter (world premiere)[87][88]
- Stepping Out (13Script error: No such module "String".OctoberTemplate:Snd17Script error: No such module "String".November 2007)[89]
- Treasure Island (24Script error: No such module "String".November 2007Template:Snd2Script error: No such module "String".February 2008) adapted by Karen Louise Hebden from the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson[90][91]
2008
- The Killing of Sister George (13Script error: No such module "String".SeptemberTemplate:Snd11Script error: No such module "String".October 2008) – starring Jenny Eclair and directed by Cal McCrystal.[92][93]
References
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- ↑ Orme, Steve (30 November 2008). "Derby Playhouse: Future Settled in Two Weeks?" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. British Theatre Guide. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
- ↑ a b Derby Telegraph (8 October 2009). "Theatre stages a remarkable comeback". Retrieved 10 January 2013.
- ↑ Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company "About Us" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
- ↑ a b Picturethepast.org.uk and Derby Telegraph. "Derby Playhouse entrance" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
- ↑ BBC News. (20 September 2005). "Replacement for Playhouse urged" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
- ↑ a b c d e Giannachi, Gabriella and Luckhurst, Mary (1999). On Directing: Interviews with Directors Script error: No such module "webarchive"., p. 7. Palgrave Macmillan. Template:ISBN
- ↑ Theatrical Management Association. Previous Awards Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
- ↑ a b c Derby Telegraph (27 January 2010). "Our favourite playwright returns to the city stage". Retrieved 13 January 2013.
- ↑ Orme, Steve (April 2003). "Review: My Dad's Corner Shop, Ray Grewal, Derby Playhouse" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. British Theatre Guide.
- ↑ a b c d e Orme, Steve (2004). "Karen Hebden – Rescuing Derby" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. British Theatre Guide. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
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- ↑ a b c d Potter, Andy (August 2005). "Review: Arsenic and Old Lace" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. BBC Derby. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
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- ↑ Orme, Steve (December 2007). "Review: Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by Karen Louise Hebden, Derby Playhouse Script error: No such module "webarchive".. British Theatre Guide. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
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- ↑ Orme, Steve (September 2008). "Review: The Killing of Sister George, Frank Marcus, Derby Playhouse" Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
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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.