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Season 2024-2025

How to Survive Being in a Shakespeare Play
by Don Zolidis
Di and Viv and Rose
by Amelia Bullmore
Colder Than Here
by Laura Wade
Ghosts
by Henrik Ibsen
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story
by Charles Dickens
The Winslow Boy
by Terence Rattigan

Season 2023-2024

The Invisible Men
by H.G. Wells
The Bright and Bold Design
by Peter Whelan
Dial M For Murder
by Frederick Knott
Rules for Living
by Sam Holcroft
The Cane
by Mark Ravenhill
Wild, actually
by Molly Walker

Season 2022-2023

Shakespeare in Hollywood
by Ken Ludwig
Peep
by Jodi Gray
Brontë
by Polly Teale
Parlour Song
by Jez Butterworth
Husbands and Sons
by D H Lawrence
Rabbit Hole
by David Lindsay-Abaire

Season 2021-2022

When the Rain Stops Falling
by Andrew Bovell
The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Eventide
by Barney Norris
Hindle Wakes
by Stanley Houghton

Season 2020-2021

Pressure
by David Haig
The Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Gleaming for an Instant
by Stuart Handysides

Season 2019-2020

Alfie
by Bill Naughton
Thomas Tallis
by Jessica Swale
Almost, Maine
by John Cariani

Season 2018-2019

Quartet
by Ronald Harwood
Six Dead Queens and an Inflatable Henry
by Foursight Theatre
The Misanthrope
by Molière
Mary Stuart
by Friedrich Schiller
Sylvia
by A.R. Gurney

Season 2017-2018

Flare Path
by Terence Rattigan
Foxfinder
by Dawn King
Doctor Scroggy's War
by Howard Brenton
Our Man in Havana
by Clive Francis
Writer's Block
by Woody Allen

Season 2016-2017

The Ladykillers
by Graham Linehan
The Veil
by Conor McPherson
Daisy Pulls It Off
by Denise Deegan
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
by Jethro Compton
Life x 3
by Yasmina Reza

Season 2015-2016

Boeing Boeing
by Marc Camoletti
Hedda Gabler
by Henrik Ibsen
The Pitmen Painters
by Lee Hall
Tis Pity She's A Whore
by John Ford
The Sociable Plover
by Tim Whitnall

Season 2014-2015

Entertaining Angels
by Rupert Everett
Witness For The Prosecution
by Agatha Christie
Making History
by Brian Friel
The 39 Steps
by Patrick Barlow
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare

Season 2013-2014

Three Tall Women
by Edward Albee
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
Thin Ice
by Jonathan Young
Grimm Tales
by The Brothers Grimm
Anne Boleyn
by Howard Brenton
Mary Shelley
by Helen Edmundson

Season 2012-2013

The Rubenstein Kiss
by James Phillips
Amy's View
by David Hare
Bouncers & Shakers
by John Godber & Jane Thornton
The Walworth Farce
by Enda Walsh
Blithe Spirit
by Noel Coward

Season 2011-2012

Don Juan
by Molière
A Few Good Men
by Aaron Sorkin
Can't Pay Won't Pay
by Dario Fo
The Killing of Sister George
by Frank Marcus
Woman in Mind
by Alan Ayckbourn

Season 2010-2011

Year of the Rat
by Roy Smiles
Moonlight and Magnolias
by Ron Hutchinson
The Last Obit
by Peter Tinniswood
Some Kind Of Bliss
by Samuel Adamson
The Herbal Bed
by Peter Whelan
Messiah on the Frigidaire
by John Culbertson

Season 2009-2010

Damages
by Steve Thompson
Art
by Yasmina Reza
Mammals
by Amelia Bullmore
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Good Things
by Liz Lochhead

Season 2008-2009

Tom and Viv
by Michael Hastings
An Experiment with an Air Pump
by Shelagh Stevenson
The House of Bernarda Alba
by Federico Garcia Lorca
The Odd Couple
by Neil Simon
Life of Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht

Season 2007-2008

April in Paris
by John Godber
Gagarin Way
by Gregory Burke
Humble Boy
by Charlotte Jones
Incorruptible
by Michael Hollinger
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
New England
by Richard Nelson

Season 2006-2007

The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
What the Night Is For
by Michael Weller
Caught in the Net
by Ray Cooney
Strangers on a Train
by Craig Warner
A Lovely Sunday for Creve Couer
by Tennessee Williams
Journey's End
by R. C. Sherriff

Season 2005-2006

God Only Knows
by Hugh Whitemore
Gross Indecency
by Moises Kaufmann
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
by Peter Nichols
Sleuth
by Anthony Shaffer
The Lady From the Sea
by Henrik Ibsen
The Government Inspector
by Nikolai Gogol

Season 2004-2005

As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
Proof
by David Auburn
Death and the Maiden
by Ariel Dorffman
The School of Night
by Peter Whelan
Female Transport
by Steve Gooch
Copenhagen
by Michael Frayn

Season 2003-2004

The Mysterious Mr Love
by Karoline Leach
In Flame
by Charlotte Jones
Funny Money
by Ray Cooney
The Rainmaker
by N Richard Nash

Season 2002-2003

Theft
by Eric Chappell
Peggy For You
by Alan Plater
Dealer's Choice
by Patrick Marber
Terra Nova
by Ted Tally
Sidelines
by Kate Futcher

Season 2001-2002

Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
Memory of Water
by Shelagh Stephenson
Florence Nightingale
by John Bowen
I Thought I Heard a Rustling
by Alan Plater
The Sea
by Edward Bond

Season 2000-2001

Our Song
by Keith Waterhouse
The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband
by Debbie Izitt
Katherine Howard
by William Nicholson
The Trial of God
by Elie Wiesel

Season 1999-2000

She Stoops to Conquer
by Oliver Goldsmith
The Steward of Christendom
by Sebastian Barry
Epsom Downs
by Howard Brenton
Oh! What a Lovely War
by Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop
The Reluctant Debutante
by William Douglas-Home

Season 1998-1999

Don't Dress for Dinner
by Marc Camoletti
Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens
by Paul Godfrey
Map of the Heart
by William Nicholson
Sweet Sorrow
by Alan Plater
Ladies Who Lunch
by Tudor Gates
All My Sons
by Arthur Miller

Season 1997-1998

Cider With Rosie
by James Roose Evans
The Anastasia File
by Royce Ryton
Quartermaine's Terms
by Simon Gray
The Cemetary Club
by Ivan Menchell
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare

Season 1996-1997

The Rivals
by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
My Mother Said I Never Should
by Charlotte Keatley
Old World
by Aleksi Arbuzov
Blue Remembered Hills
by Dennis Potter
On Approval
by William Lonsdale

Season 1995-1996

Separate Tables
by Terence Rattigan
Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
by Keith Waterhouse
Dancing at Lughnasa
by Brian Friel
Under Milk Wood
by Dylan Thomas
Separation
by Tom Kempinski

Season 1994-1995

A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
by Christopher Hampton
Toys of War
by CoPs Youth Group
Not About Heroes
by Stephen Macdonald
George Eliot's Adam Bede
by Geoffrey Beevers
California Suite
by Neil Simon

Season 1993-1994

Entertaining Mr. Sloane
by Joe Orton
The Dresser
by Ronald Harwood
Two
by Jim Cartwright
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Lion in Winter
by James Goldman
Shadowlands
by William Nicholson

Season 1992-1993

The Real Inspector Hound
by Tom Stoppard
Laundry & Bourbon
by James McLure
My Sister in this House
by Wendy Kesselman
One for the Road
by Willy Russell
Five Finger Exercise
by Peter Shaffer

Season 1991-1992

Breaking the Code
by Hugh Whitemore
The Playboy of the Western World
by J. M. Synge
Steel Magnolias
by Robert Harling
Beyond Reasonable Doubt
by Jeffrey Archer
Teechers
by John Godber

Season 1990-1991

Fen
by Caryl Churchill
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
Table Manners
by Alan Ayckbourn
The Browning Version
by Terence Rattigan
Swan Song
by Anton Chekov
This Happy Breed
by Noel Coward

Season 1989-1990

Agnes Of God
by John Pielmeier
A Month Of Sundays
by Bob Larbey
Therese Raquin
by Leslie Sands
The Birthday Party
by Harold Pinter
Stepping Out
by Richard Harris

Season 1988-1989

Shut Your Eyes and Think of England
by John Chapman and Anthony Marriott
The Aspern Papers
by Michael Redgrave
The Noble Spaniard
by W. Somerset Maugham
Class Play
by CoPs Youth Group
Children of a Lesser God
by Mark Medoff
When We Are Married
by J. B. Priestley

Season 1987-1988

I Ought to be in Pictures
by Neil Simon
Thunder
by Richard Crane
Candida
by George Bernard Shaw
Duet for Two Hands
by Mary Hayley Bell
The Entertainer
by John Osborne

Season 1986-1987

Ten Times Table
by Alan Ayckbourn
Hay Fever
by Noel Coward
Pack of Lies
by Hugh Whitemore
The Master Builder
by Henrik Ibsen
Stevie
by Hugh Whitemore

Season 1985-1986

Habeus Corpus
by Alan Bennett
The Cocktail Party
by T. S. Eliot
The Lights are Warm and Coloured
by William Norfolk
Just Between Ourselves
by Alan Ayckbourn
Barefoot in the Park
by Neil Simon

Season 1984-1985

84 Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
Sailor Beware!
by Philip King and Falkland L. Cary
Absurd Person Singular
by Alan Ayckbourn
The Wrong Side of the Park
by John Mortimer
Educating Rita
by Willy Russell

Season 1983-1984

Lord Arthur Saville's Crime
by Constance Cox
Outside Edge
by Richard Harris
Born in the Gardens
by Peter Nicholls
The Old Country
by Alan Bennett
Arms and the Man
by George Bernard Shaw

Season 1982-1983

A Phoenix Too Frequent
by Christopher Fry
Alphabetical Order
by Michael Frayn
There Goes the Bride
by Ray Cooney and John Chapman
The Exorcism
by Don Taylor
The Love of Four Colonels
by Peter Ustinov

Season 1981-1982

In Praise of Love
by Terence Rattigan
Waltz of the Toreadors
by Jean Anouilh
See How They Run
by Philip King
Hess
by Michael Burrell
Abigail's Party
by Mike Leigh
Who Saw Him Die
by Tudor Gates

Season 1980-1981

A Tomb with a View
by Norman Robbins
The Cherry Orchard
by Anton Chekov
Enter a Free Man
by Tom Stoppard
The Day After the Fair
by Frank Harvey

Season 1979-1980

The Murder of Maria Marten/The Red Barn
by Brian J. Burton
Gaslight
by Patrick Hamilton
Ninotchka
by Melchior Lengyel
Waters of the Moon
by N. C. Hunter

Season 1978-1979

The Sunshine Boys
by Neil Simon
The Heiress
by Ruth and Augustus Goetz
Round and Round the Garden
by Alan Ayckbourn
I Have Been Here Before
by J. B. Priestley

Season 1977-1978

The Sponge Room
by Keith Waterhouse
Squat Betty
by Keith Waterhouse
Granite
by Clemence Dane
The Philanthropist
by Christopher Hampton

Season 1976-1977

And a Little Love Besides
by Alan Plater
Thark
by Ben Travers
Lady Audley's Secret
by Colin Henry Hazlewood and Mary Braddon

Season 1975-1976

You Never Can Tell
by George Bernard Shaw
The Gazebo
by Alec Coppel
The Night of the Iguana
by Tennessee Williams
The House on the Cliff
by George Batson

Season 1974-1975

The Late Edwina Black
by William Dinner
The Confidential Clerk
by T. S. Eliot
The Happy Apple
by Jack Pulman
An Ideal Husband
by Oscar Wilde

Season 1973-1974

The Innocents
by William Archibald
The Middle Watch
by Ian Hay and Stephen King Hall
The Shop at Sly Corner
by Edward Percy
The Irregular Verb to Love
by Hugh and Margaret Williams

Season 1972-1973

Epitaph for George Dillon
by John Osborne
Cranford
by Martin Coleman
The First Night of Pygmalion
by Richard Huggett
Harvey
by Mary Chase

Season 1971-1972

Romeo and Jeanette
by Jean Anouilh
The Judge
by John Mortimer
The Anniversary
by Bill MacIlwraith
The End of the Picnic
by David Campton
The Dumb Wife of Cheapside
by Ashley Dukes

Season 1970-1971

The Bride and the Bachelor
by Ronald Millar
A Month in the Country
by Ivan Turgenev

Season 1969-1970

Black Comedy
by Peter Shaffer
The Happy Journey
by Thornton Wilder
Tilly of Bloomsbury
by Ian Hay

Season 1968-1969

A Civil Marriage
by Robert Tanitch
The Marvellous Story of 'Puss in Boots'
by Nicholas Stuart Gray

Season 1967-1968

Hearts and Humours
by John Tydeman
How's the World Treating You
by Roger Milner
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
The Fire Raisers
by Max Frisch

Season 1966-1967

Relative Values
by Noel Coward
The Hole
by N. F. Simpson
My Three Angels
by Sam and Bella Spewack

Season 1965-1966

A Resounding Tinkle
by N. F. Simpson
Harlequinade
by Terence Rattigan
Ghosts
by Henrik Ibsen

Season 1964-1965

Invitation to a March
by Arthur Laurents

Season 1963-1964

The Walrus and the Carpenters
by R. J. Boswell
I am a Camera
by John Van Druten
A Ladder for Lucy
by Delsie Darke
Intimate Relations
by Jean Cocteau

Season 1962-1963

Still Waters
by Delsie Darke
Bell Book and Candle
by John Van Druten
The Little Red Tree
by Glyn Griffiths
Collect Your Hand Baggage
by John Mortimer
The Form
by N. F. Simpson

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