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.Orme, Steve (30 November 2008). "Derby Playhouse: Future Settled in Two Weeks?" . British Theatre Guide. Retrieved 11 January 2013.Derby Telegraph (8 October 2009). . Retrieved 10 January 2013.
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.Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company "About Us" . Retrieved 10 January 2013.
1970s 1975 My Fair LadyPicturethepast.org.uk and Derby Telegraph. "Derby Playhouse entrance" . Retrieved 14 January 2013. 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 BatesBBC News. (20 September 2005). "Replacement for Playhouse urged" . Retrieved 10 January 2013. 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 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 GannonGiannachi, Gabriella and Luckhurst, Mary (1999). On Directing: Interviews with Directors , p. 7. Palgrave Macmillan. (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 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.Theatrical Management Association. Previous Awards . Retrieved 11 January 2013. 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 PisteDerby Telegraph (27 January 2010). . Retrieved 13 January 2013. 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 (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 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 (1February1March 2003) My Dad's Corner Shop (22March12April 2003) by Ray Grewal (The play won Grewal the Meyer-Whitworth Award in 2001. This was its first main-stage production)Orme, Steve (April 2003). "Review: My Dad's Corner Shop, Ray Grewal, Derby Playhouse" . British Theatre Guide. Viking Tales (1619April 2003) – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre The Entertainer (26April24May 2003) Oh, What a Lovely War! (31May28June 2003) – Pro & Derby Playhouse Community Theatre Blithe Spirit (6September4October 2003) Dracula (11October1November 2003) Loot (829November 2003) A Christmas Carol (6December 200324January 2004)Orme, Steve (2004). "Karen Hebden – Rescuing Derby" . British Theatre Guide. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
2004 Shirley Valentine (31January5February 2004) Private Lives (6March3April 2004) Josefina – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (24April2May 2004)Gardner, Lyn (7 December 2007). "Derby Playhouse's last leg" . Retrieved 14 January 2013. A Midsummer Night's Dream (29May3July 2004) Silver Ghosts & Spitfires (710July 2004) – Derby Playhouse Community Theatre Amadeus (28August25September 2004) Frankenstein (230October 2004) Kafka's Dick (627November 2004) Merlin & The Winter King (4December 200422January 2005)
2005 Can't Pay? Won't Pay! (29January26February 2005) Mary Stuart (526March 2005) – with Big Picture Company Hooray for Hollywood (30March2April 2005) – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre Company (16April21May 2005) Romeo and Juliet (28May2July 2005) Bold Nelson's Praise (69July 2005) – Derby Playhouse Community Theatre Arsenic and Old Lace (20August17September 2005)Potter, Andy (August 2005). "Review: Arsenic and Old Lace" . BBC Derby. Retrieved 14 January 2013. Macbeth (24September22October 2005) Serial Killers (29October26November 2005) Arabian Nights (3December 200528January 2006)
2006 Henceforward... (4February4March 2006) Master Class (11March8April 2006) Into the Woods (22April20May 2006) Animal Farm (27May23June 2006) – Pro & Derby Playhouse Community Theatre A Christmas Carol (2December 200620January 2007)
2007 The Importance of Being Earnest (27January24February 2007) Johnno (331March 2007) co-production with La Boite Theatre. Merrily We Roll Along (14April19May 2007) As You Like It (26May23June 2007) The Tempest – Derby Playhouse Youth Theatre Moon Landing (6September6October 2007) starring Glenn Carter (world premiere)Hickling, Alfred (10 September 2007). "Review Moon Landing" . The Guardian. Retrieved 14 January 2013. Stepping Out (13October17November 2007) Treasure Island (24November 20072February 2008) adapted by Karen Louise Hebden from the novel by Robert Louis StevensonOrme, Steve (December 2007). "Review: Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by Karen Louise Hebden, Derby Playhouse . British Theatre Guide. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
2008 The Killing of Sister George (13September11October 2008) – starring Jenny Eclair and directed by Cal McCrystal.Orme, Steve (September 2008). "Review: The Killing of Sister George, Frank Marcus, Derby Playhouse" . Retrieved 14 January 2013.
References
External links Derby Playhouse official website (no longer updated)