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Variety shows have been excluded, along with any productions not performed by the theatre itself. Abbreviations: ad = adaptor, tr = translator, fr = from (a short story/novel by).
Plays listed by author Author Play Date Albee, Edward Zoo Story 2011 Anderson, Jane Looking for Normal 2010 Anouilh, Jean The Lark 1987 Number One (tr Michael Frayn) 1995 Ring Round the Moon (tr Christopher Fry) 1979 Antrobus, John When Did You Last See Your Trousers? 2005 Aristophanes Ladies' Day 1979 Lysistrata (tr Dudley Fitts) 1983 Ashman, Howard Little Shop of Horrors 2000 Auburn, David Proof 2009 Ayckbourn, Alan Absurd Person Singular 2010 Bedroom Farce 1990 Between Mouthfuls 1994 Confusions 1999 Gosforth's Fête 1994 Henceforward 1996 How the Other Half Loves 1988 Relatively Speaking 1984, 2004 Round and Round the Garden 1981 Bagnold, Enid The Chalk Garden 1993 Barnes, Peter The Ruling Class 1978 Bennett, Alan Habeas Corpus 1980, 2006 Lady of Letters 2006 The Old Country 1992 Soldiering On 2006 Bolt, Robert A Man For All Seasons 1987 Brown, William F The Wiz 2006 Bruce, Lesley Keyboard Skills 2006 Burrows, John The Golden Pathway Annual 1983 Byrne, John Writer's Cramp 2002 Campbell, Mark Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas (fr Charles Dickens, M R James) 2008 Capek, Josef RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots) 2012 Capek, Josef & Karel The Insect Play 1980 Carroll, Lewis The Adventures of Alice 2000 An Evening of Nonsense 1989 Chapman, John There Goes the Bride 2007 Chase, Mary Harvey 1994 Chekhov, Anton The Bear 1988 The Sneeze 1991 Chiltern, Charles Oh What a Lovely War 1976, 1996 Chinn, Jimmie Interior Designs 1993 Straight and Narrow 1998 Too Long An Autumn 1997 Christie, Agatha And Then There Were None 2011 Spider's Web 2009 Witness for the Prosecution 2005 Clark, Brian Whose Life is it Anyway? 1986 Colley, Peter I'll Be Back Before Midnight 1993 Cooney, Ray There Goes the Bride 2007 Coward, Noël Blithe Spirit 1978 Cowardy Custard 1987 Cowper, Trevor Relative Strangers 1987 Cox, Constance Lord Arthur Savile's Crime 1989 Croft, David Hi-De-Hi! 2012 It Ain't Half Hot Mum 2009 Curtis, Richard Blackadder II 2011 De Marne, Denis Jack the Ripper 1998 Deegan, Denise Daisy Pulls It Off 1993 Dickens, Charles A Christmas Carol (ad Carol La Roche) 1992 Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas (ad Mark Campbell 2008 Douglas-Home, William The Dame of Sark 1986 Downing, Martin The House of Frankenstein! 2002 Eliot, T S Murder in the Cathedral 1982, 2006 Elton, Ben Blackadder II 2011 Firth, Tim Neville's Island 1997 Fo, Dario (tr Gavin Richards) Accidental Death of an Anarchist 1985 Frayn, Michael The Two of Us 1998 Frow, Gerald (fr Noël Coward) Cowardy Custard 1987 Galton, Ray When Did You Last See Your Trousers? 2005 Genet, Jean The Maids 2010 Gersha, Leonard Butterflies are Free 1978 Gibson, William The Miracle Worker 1981 Two for the Seesaw 1977 Godber, John Bouncers 2002 Up 'n' Under 1993 Goets, Ruth & Augustus The Heiress 1979 Goldman, James The Lion in Winter 1990 Goodrich, Francis The Diary of Anne Frank 1984 Gray, Simon Otherwise Engaged 1984 Quartermaine's Terms 2001 Green, George McEwan One Season's King 1976 Green, Michael Coarse Acting 2 1990 The Coarse Acting Show 1981 Gurney Jr, A R The Dining Room 1987 Hackett, Albert The Diary of Anne Frank 1984 Hall, Carol The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 2004 Hall, Willis Say Who You Are 1991 All Things Bright and Beautiful 1981 Hampton, Christopher Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1998 Harding, John The Golden Pathway Annual 1983 Hare, David Knuckle 2003 Plenty 1981 Harling, Robert Steel Magnolias 2006 Harris, Richard Albert 1994 Dead Guilty 2000 Outside Edge 1987 Stepping Out 2007 Visiting Hour 1994 Harvey, Frank (fr Thomas Hardy) The Day After the Fair 1985, 2005 Hellman, Lillian The Children's Hour 1990 Holliday, Graham The Scottish Play 1990 Holloway, Jonathan Get Carter (fr Ted Lewis) 2011 Ibsen, Henric An Enemy of the People 1978 Ionesco, Eugene The Bald Prima Donna 1977 James, M R Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas (ad Mark Campbell) 2008 Jennings, Gertrude E The Bathroom Door 1995 Johnson, Terry The Graduate 2008 Keatley, Charlotte My Mother Said I Never Should 1996 Kempinski, Tom Duet for One 1988 Separation 2003 Kesselman, Wendy My Sister in This House 1994 Kesselring, Joseph Arsenic and Old Lace 1991 Kessler, Lyle Orphans 2001 King, Larry L The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 2004 Knott, Frederick Dial M for Murder 1991 Wait Until Dark 1980, 2008 La Roche, Carol The Adventures of Alice (fr Lewis Carroll) 2000 A Christmas Carol (fr Charles Dickens) 1992 Larbey, Bob Sand Castles 2000 Lawler, Ray Summer of the Seventeenth Doll 1977 Leonard, Hugh Da 2005 Lear, Edward An Evening of Nonsense 1989 Leigh, Mike Abigail's Party 1985, 2008 Levin, Ira Deathtrap 2004 Levy, Benn W The Rape of the Belt 1992 Mamet, David Glengarry Glen Ross 2009 Mankowitz, Wolf The Bespoke Overcoat 1980 Marcus, Frank The Killing of Sister George 1996 Masterson, Peter The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 2004 Mastrosimone, William Extremities 2007 Mellor, Kay Passionate Woman, A 1999 Menken, Alan Little Shop of Horrors 2000 MacDonald, Stephen Not About Heroes 2001 McGillivray, David Farndale Avenue...A Christmas Carol 1997 Farndale Avenue...Macbeth 1999 Farndale Avenue...Murder Mystery 1989 McGuinness, Frank Someone To Watch Over Me 1999 McLoughlin, Maurice A Letter From the General 2001 Middleton, Thomas The Revenger's Tragedy 2011 Miller, Arthur The Crucible 1978, 2004 Death of a Salesman 1989 Miller, P J Days of Wine and Roses 1980 Milne, A A Toad of Toad Hall 1988 Minghella, Anthony Whale Music 1996 Molière (tr John Wood) The Miser 1993 Moore, Simon Misery (fr Stephen King) 2002 Morley, John Aladdin 2004 Mortimer, John Come As You Are 1980 The Dock Brief 1992 A Voyage Round My Father 1985 Nash, Richard The Rainmaker 1977 Naughton, Bill Alfie 1976 Nichols, Peter A Day in The Death of Joe Egg 1985 Norman, Frank Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be 1983 Norton-Taylor, Richard Justifying War 2008 Obey, Andre Frost at Midnight 1979 O'Malley, Mary Once a Catholic 1986 Orton, Joe Entertaining Mr Sloane 2003 Loot 1984, 2012 Patrick, Robert Kennedy's Children 1978 Pember, Ron Jack the Ripper 1998 Pernak, Adam Killers 1997 Perry, Jimmy Hi-de-Hi! 2012 It Ain't Half Hot Mum 2009 Pertwee, Michael Do Not Disturb 1991 Phelps, Winifred Temptation Sordid, or Virtue Rewarded 1980 Pielmeier, John Agnes of God 1988 Pinter, Harold The Dumb Waiter 1983 Poliakoff, Stephen Breaking the Silence 1990 Pomerance, Bernard The Elephant Man 1989 Potter, Dennis Blue Remembered Hills 1992 Brimstone and Treacle 2006 Priestley, J B An Inspector Calls 1989 Rattigan, Terence In Praise of Love 1982 The Winslow Boy 1996 Reeves, Pamela Soldiering On 2011 Ridley, Arnold The Ghost Train 1981, 2001 Robbins, Norman Tomb With a View, A 2010 Roper, Tony The Steamie 2005 Russell, Willy Blood Brothers (Studio Version) 1999 Shirley Valentine 2001 Ryton, Royce The Unvarnished Truth 1995 Satre, Jean-Paul In Camera 1977 Saunders, James Birdsong 1995 Schaffer, Peter Black Comedy 1976 Shaffer, Anthony The Case of the Oily Levantine 1986 Sleuth 1992 Shaw, George Bernard Arms and the Man 1979 Simon, Neil Barefoot in the Park 1976 The Gingerbread Lady 2005 Last of the Red Hot Lovers 1998 The Odd Couple 1977 Plaza Suite 1980 The Prisoner of Second Avenue 1982 The Sunshine Boys 1997 Shakespeare, William King Lear 1984 Macbeth 1982, 2011 A Midsummer Night's Dream 1977 Much Ado About Nothing 2008 Othello 1979 Twelfth Night 1986 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley The Rivals 1991 Slade, Bernard Same Time Next Year 1993 Smalls, Charlie The Wiz 2006 Sophocles Oedipus the King (tr Clive Madel) 2009 Steinbeck, John Of Mice and Men 2003 Stoppard, Tom After Magritte 2006 Albert's Bridge 1986 Enter a Free Man 1978 On the Razzle 1989 The Real Inspector Hound 1988 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 1985 Strachan, Alan (fr Noël Coward) Cowardy Custard 1987 Taylor, Don Exorcism, The 1997 Taylor, Edward Murder by Misadventure 1995 Taylor, Samuel A Touch of Spring 1982 Terson, Peter Strippers 2012 Thomas, Dylan Under Milk Wood 1983 Tiller, Ted Count Dracula 1994 Tinniswood, Peter You Should See Us Now 1994 Townsend, Sue Groping for Words 2002 Toye, Wendy (fr Noël Coward) Cowardy Custard 1987 Tristram, David Last Tango in...Bexleyheath 1998 Vickery, Frank Family Planning 2000 A Kiss on the Bottom 2003 Warner, Brian Bossenden 1976 Wasserman, Dale One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1983 Waterhouse, Keith All Things Bright and Beautiful 1981 Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell 1995 Say Who You Are 1991 Whelan, Peter The Accrington Pals 2000 Whitemore, Hugh Breaking the Code 1992 Pack of Lies 1995 Whiting, John The Devils 1984 Wilde, Oscar An Ideal Husband 2002 The Importance of Being Earnest 1988, 2009 Williams, Terry Seconds Out! 2010 Williams, Tennessee A Streetcar Named Desire 1983 Wodehouse, P G Come on Jeeves 1989 Wright, Nicholas Mrs Klein 2007 Zerlin Jr, Walter [see McGillivray, David] Zindel, Paul The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds 1986
Plays listed by title Play Author Date Abigail's Party Mike Leigh 1985, 2008 Absurd Person Singular Alan Ayckbourn 2010 Accidental Death of an Anarchist Dario Fo (tr Gavin Richards) 1985 Accrington Pals, The Peter Whelan 2000 Adventures of Alice, The Carol La Roche (fr Lewis Carroll) 2000 After Magritte Tom Stoppard 2006 Agnes of God John Pielmeier 1986 Albert Richard Harris 1994 Albert's Bridge Tom Stoppard 1986 All Things Bright and Beautiful Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall 1981 Aladdin John Morley 2004 Alfie Bill Naughton 1976 An Evening of Nonsense Lewis Carroll & Edward Lear 1989 An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde 2002 An Inspector Calls J B Priestley 1989 Anastasia File, The Royce Ryton 1995 And Then There Were None Agatha Christie 2011 Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw 1979 Arsenic and Old Lace Joseph Kesselring 1991 Bald Prima Donna, The Eugene Ionesco 1977 Barefoot in the Park Neil Simon 1976 Bathroom Door, The Gertrude E Jennings 1995 Bear, The Anton Chekhov 1988 Bedroom Farce Alan Ayckbourn 1990 Bespoke Overcoat, The Wolf Mankowitz 1980 Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, The Larry L King, Peter Masterson & Carol Hall 2004 Between Mouthfuls Alan Ayckbourn 1994 Birdsong James Saunders 1995 Blackadder II Richard Curtis & Ben Elton 2011 Black Comedy Peter Schaffer 1976 Blithe Spirit Noël Coward 1978 Blood Brothers (Studio Version) Willy Russell 1999 Blue Remembered Hills Dennis Potter 1992 Bossenden Brian Warner 1976 Bouncers John Godber 2002 Breaking the Code Hugh Whitemore 1992 Breaking the Silence Stephen Poliakoff 1990 Brimstone and Treacle Dennis Potter 2006 Butterflies are Free Leonard Gersha 1978 Case of the Oily Levantine, The Anthony Shaffer 1986 Chalk Garden, The Enid Bagnold 1993 Children's Hour, The Lillian Hellman 1990 Christmas Carol, A Carol La Roche (fr Charles Dickens) 1992 Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas Mark Campbell (fr M R James & Charles Dickens) 2008 Coarse Acting 2 Michael Green 1990 Coarse Acting Show Michael Green 1981 Come As You Are John Mortimer 1980 Come On Jeeves P G Wodehouse 1989 Confusions Alan Ayckbourn 1999 Count Dracula Ted Tiller 1994 Cowardy Custard Gerard Frow, Alan Strachan & Wendy Toye (fr Noël Coward) 1987 Crucible, The Arthur Miller 1978, 2004 Da Hugh Leonard 2005 Daisy Pulls It Off Denise Deegan 1993 Dame of Sark, The William Douglas-Home 1986 Day After the Fair, The Frank Harvey (fr Thomas Hardy) 1985, 2005 Day in The Death of Joe Egg, A Peter Nichols 1985 Days of Wine and Roses P J Miller 1980 Dead Guilty Richard Harris 2000 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller 1989 Deathtrap Ira Levin 2004 Devils, The John Whiting 1984 Dial M for Murder Frederick Knott 1991 Diary of Anne Frank, The Francis Goodrich & Albert Hackett 1984 Dining Room, The A R Gurney Jnr 1987 Do Not Disturb Michael Pertwee 1991 Dock Brief, The John Mortimer 1992 Dumb Waiter, The Harold Pinter 1983 Duet for One Tom Kempinski 1988 Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, The Paul Zindel 1986 Elephant Man, The Bernard Pomerance 1989 Enemy of the People, An Henric Ibsen 1978 Enter a Free Man Tom Stoppard 1978 Entertaining Mr Sloane Joe Orton 2003 Exorcism, The Don Taylor 1997 Extremities William Mastrosimone 2007 Family Planning Frank Vickery 2000 Farndale Avenue...Christmas Carol David McGillivray & Walter Zerlin Jnr 1997 Farndale Avenue...Macbeth David McGillivray & Walter Zerlin Jnr 1999 Farndale Avenue...Murder Mystery David McGillivray & Walter Zerlin Jnr 1989 Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be Frank Norman & Lionel Bart 1983 Frost at Midnight Andre Obey 1979 Get Carter Jonathan Holloway (fr Ted Lewis) 2011 Ghost Train, The Arnold Ridley 1981, 2001 Gingerbread Lady, The Neil Simon 2005 Glengarry Glen Ross David Mamet 2009 Golden Pathway Annual, The John Harding & John Burrows 1983 Gosforth's Fête Alan Ayckbourn 1994 Graduate, The Terry Johnson 2008 Groping for Words Sue Townsend 2002 Habeas Corpus Alan Bennett 1980, 2006 Harvey Mary Chase 1994 Heiress, The Ruth & Augustus Goets 1979 Henceforward Alan Ayckbourn 1996 House of Frankenstein, The Marcus Downing 2002 How the Other Half Loves Alan Ayckbourn 1988 Hunting of the Snark, The Lewis Carroll 1994 I'll Be Back Before Midnight Peter Colley 1993 Importance of Being Earnest, The Oscar Wilde 1988, 2009 In Camera Jean-Paul Satre 1977 In Praise of Love Terence Rattigan 1982 Insect Play, The Josef & Karel Capek 1980 Interior Designs Jimmie Chinn 1993 It Ain't Half Hot Mum David Croft & Jimmy Perry 2009 Jack the Ripper Ron Pember & Denis De Marne 1998 Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell Keith Waterhouse 1995 Justifying War Richard Norton-Taylor 2008 Keyboard Skills Lesley Bruce 2006 Killers Adam Pernak 1997 Killing of Sister George, The Frank Marcus 1996 King Lear William Shakespeare 1984 Kiss on the Bottom, A Frank Vickery 2003 Knuckle David Hare 2003 Ladies' Day Aristophanes 1979 Lady of Letters Alan Bennett 2006 Last of the Red Hot Lovers Neil Simon 1998 Last Tango in...Bexleyheath David Tristram 1998 Les Liaisons Dangereuses Christopher Hampton 1998 Letter From the General, A Maurice McLoughlin 2001 Little Shop of Horrors Howard Ashman & Alan Menken 2000 Lion in Winter, The James Goldman 1990 Looking for Normal Jane Anderson 2010 Loot Joe Orton 1984, 2012 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Constance Cox 1998 Lysistrata Aristophanes (tr Dudley Fitts) 1983 Macbeth William Shakespeare 1982, 2011 Maids, The Jean Genet 2010 Man for All Seasons, A Robert Bolt 1987 Midsummer Night's Dream, A William Shakespeare 1977 Miracle Worker, The William Gibson 1981 Miser, The Molière (tr John Wood) 1993 Misery Simon Moore (fr Stephen King) 2002 Mrs Klein Nicholas Wright 2007 Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare 2008 Murder by Misadventure Edward Taylor 1995 Murder in the Cathedral T S Eliot 1982, 2006 My Sister in This House Wendy Kesselman 1994 My Mother Said I Never Should Charlotte Keatley 1996 Neville's Island Tim Firth 1997 Not About Heroes Stephen MacDonald 2001 Number One Jean Anouilh (tr Michael Frayn) 1995 Odd Couple, The Neil Simon 1977 Oedipus the King Sophocles (tr Clive Madel) 2009 Oh What a Lovely War Charles Chilton 1976, 1996 Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck 2003 Old Country, The Alan Bennett 1992 On the Razzle Tom Stoppard 1989 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Dale Wasserman 1983 One Season's King George McEwan Green 1976 Once a Catholic Mary O'Malley 1986 Orphans Lyle Kessler 2001 Othello William Shakespeare 1979 Otherwise Engaged Simon Gray 1984 Outside Edge Richard Harris 1987 Pack of Lies Hugh Whitemore 1995 Passionate Woman, A Kay Mellor 1999 Plaza Suite Neil Simon 1980 Plenty David Hare 1981 Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Neil Simon 1982 Proof David Auburn 2009 Quartermaine's Terms Simon Gray 2001 Rape of the Belt, The Benn W Levy 1992 Real Inspector Hound, The Tom Stoppard 1988 Relative Strangers Trevor Cowper 1987 Relatively Speaking Alan Ayckbourn 1984, 2004 Revenger's Tragedy, The Thomas Middleton 2011 Ring Round the Moon Jean Anouilh (tr Christopher Fry) 1979 Rivals, The Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1991 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead Tom Stoppard 1985 Round and Round the Garden Alan Ayckbourn 1981 Ruling Class, The Peter Barnes 1978 RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots) Capek, Josef 2012 Same Time Next Year Bernard Slade 1993 Sand Castles Bob Larbey 2000 Say Who You Are Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall 1991 Scottish Play, The Graham Holliday 1990 Separation Tom Kempinski 2003 Seconds Out! Terry Williams 2010 Shirley Valentine Willy Russell 2001 Sleuth Anthony Shaffer 1992 Sneeze, The Anton Chekhov (tr Michael Frayn) 1991 Soldiering On Alan Bennett 2006 Soldiering On Pamela Reeves 2010 Someone Who'll Watch Over Me Frank McGuinness 1999 Spider's Web Agatha Christie 2009 Steamie, The Tony Roper 2005 Steel Magnolias Robert Harling 2006 Stepping Out Richard Harris 2007 Straight and Narrow Jimmie Chinn 1998 Streetcar Names Desire, A Tennessee Williams 1983 Strippers Peter Terson 2012 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Ray Lawler 1977 Sunshine Boys, The Neil Simon 1997 Temptation Sordid, or Virtue Rewarded Winifred Phelps 1980 There Goes the Bride Ray Cooney & John Chapman 2007 Toad of Toad Hall A A Milne 1988 Tomb With a View, A Norman Robbins 2010 Too Long an Autumn Jimmie Chinn 1997 Touch of Spring, A Samuel Taylor 1982 Twelfth Night William Shakespeare 1986 Two for the Seesaw William Gibson 1977 Two of Us, The Michael Frayn 1998 Under Milkwood Dylan Thomas 1983 Unvarnished Truth, The Royce Ryton 1995 Up 'n' Under John Godber 1993 Visiting Hours Richard Harris 1994 Voyage Round My Father, A John Mortimer 1985 Wait Until Dark Frederick Knott 1980, 2008 Whale Music Anthony Minghella 1996 When Did You Last See Your Trousers? Ray Galton & John Antrobus 2005 Whose Life is it Anyway? Brian Clark 1986 Winslow Boy, The Terence Rattigan 1996 Witness for the Prosecution Agatha Christie 2005 Wiz, The Charlie Smalls & William F Brown 2006 Writer's Cramp John Byrne 2002 You Should See Us Now Peter Tinniswood 1994 Zoo Story Edward Albee 2011