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Past Productions

2025

Shakespeare in Love

based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard

adapted for the stage by Lee Hall

music by Paddy Cunneen

Director: Ewen Coleman

Musical Director: Kathryn Ennis

Dial M for Murder

written by Frederick Knott

Director: Neil Brewer

The Story of Hansel, Gretel and Little Red

Written by Jamie Byas and Caitlin Duff

Directors: Jamie Byas and Devin Stinton

DH Lawrence’s The Fox

written by D H Lawrence

adapted for the stage by Keith Scott

Director: Annabel Hensley

The Great Gatsby

novel written by F.Scott Fitzgerald

adapted for the stage by Ken Duncum

Director: Catherine McMechan

 

2024

Murdered to Death

Written by Peter Gordon

Directors: Oliver Mander and Jamie Byas

The Misadventures of Peter and Tinkerbell

devised by the cast and crew

Director: Shay Tanirau

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Written by Ian Jury

Director: Ewen Coleman

Pip

based on Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations

book & lyrics by John Golder with Tanya Piejus, Talia Carlisle and Katie Morton

music composition by Katie Morton

Director: Tanya Piejus

Musical Director: Saar Cohen-Ronen

 

2023

Where’s My Money

Written by John Patrick Shanley

Director: Oliver Mander

Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense

Written by David & Robert Goodale

Director: Tim MacDonald

Top Girls

Written by Caryl Churchill

Director: Belinda Campbell

Picnic at Hanging Rock

based on a novel by Joan Lindsay

adaptation by Tom Wright

Director: Tanya Piejus

 

2022

The Spitfire Grill

Music & book by James Valcq

Lyrics & book by Fred Alley

Based on the film by Lee David Zlotoff

Director: Jen Goddard

Musical Director: Jen Church

Rope

Written by David & Robert Goodale

Director: Tim MacDonald

Apartment

Written by Tama Smith

Directors: Tama Smith, Belinda Campbell

Avenue Q

Music & Lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx

Book by Jeff Whitty

Director: Ewen Coleman

Musical Director: Saar Cohen-Ronen

 

2021

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

based on the book by Louis de Bernieres

adapted for the stage by Rona Munro

Directors: Ewen Coleman and Stanford Reynolds

Popcorn

Written by Ben Elton

Directors: Oliver Mander and Isaac Borgman

Suddenly Last Summer

Written by Tennesee Williams

Director: Emily K Brown

 

2020

Ladies in Black

book by Carolyn Burns

music & lyrics by Tim Finn

adapted from the book The Woman in Black by Madeleine St John

Director: Sandy Brewer

Musical Director: Sue Windsor

Midnight in Moscow

Written by Dean Parker

Director: Tanya Piejus

 

2019

The Royal Hunt of the Sun

written by Peter Shaffer

Director: Matt Todd

Black Comedy

written by Peter Shaffer

Directors: Neil Haydon and Oliver Mander

The Three Penny Opera

written by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill

Directors: Ewen Coleman and Saar Cohen-Ronen

Musical Director: Saar Cohen-Ronen

First Date

book by Austin Winsberg

music and lyrics by Alaz Zachary and Michael Weiner

Director: Sandy Brewer

Musical Director: Sue Windsor

 

2018

Our Country’s Good

written by Timberlake Wertenbaker

Director: Joanne Lisik

Breaking Up is Hard To Do

Lyrics by Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield and Philip Cody

Orchestrations / vocal arrangements by Tom Kitt

Conceived by Marsh Hanson and Gordon Greenberg

Creative consultant: Neil Sedaka

Director: Sandy Brewer

Musical Director: Sue Windsor

Wolf Hall

Bring Up the Bodies

adapted by Mike Poulton

from the novels written by Hilary Mantel

Directors: Ewen Coleman and Anthony Hogan

 

2017

Play On

written by Rick Abbott

Director: Neil Haydon

Peninsula

written by Gary Henderson

Director: Annabel Hensley

Nell Gwynn

written by Jessica Swale

Director: Ewen Coleman

 

2016

Arsenic and Old Lace

written by Joseph Kesselring

Director: Rob Ormsby

Ladies in Lavender

written by Shaun McKenna

Director: Annabel Hensley

Brassed Off

written by Paul Allen

adapted from the screenplay by Mark Herman

Director: Ewen Coleman

 

2015

Soldiers’ Songs

various writers

Director: Rose Hudson

Carpe Jugulum

written by Terry Pratchett

adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs

Director: Ross Miller

Little Women

written by Louisa May Alcott

adapted by Emma Reeves

Director: Ewen Coleman

Take A Chance On Me

written by Roger Hall

Director: Ewen Coleman

 

2014

Two Shots
The Proposal

written by Anton Chekhov

Director: Steven Preston

Two Shots
The Irish Hebrew Lesson

written by Wolf Mankowitz

Director: Matt Todd

The Addams Family

Music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa

book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice

Director: Ewen Coleman

Musical Director: Josh Hompton-Stewart

Blackadder Goes Forth

written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton

Director: Neil Haydon

 

2013

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Calendar Girls

written by Tim Firth

Director: Ewen Coleman

Abigail’s Party

written by Mike Leigh

Director: Annabel Hensley

Some Canterbury Tales

written by Geoffrey Chaucer

adapted by Ken Pickering

Director: Ross Miller

 

2012

Blackadder III

written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton

Director: Ross Miller

Private Lives

written by Noel Coward

Director: Annabel Hensley

The Boyfriend

written by Sandy Wilson

Director: Ewen Coleman

 

2011

Olde Time Music Hall

various writers

Director: Ewen Coleman

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

written by Tom Stoppard

Director: Tim C Yarrow

Wyrd Sisters

written by Terry Pratchett

adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs

Director: Ross Miller

 

2010

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

written by John Fowles

adapted for the stage by Mark Healy

Director: Sue Miller

The Diary of Anne Frank

written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

adapted for the stage by Wendy Kesselman

Director: Tanya Piejus

Blackadder II

written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton

Director: Ewen Coleman

 

2009

Happy As A Sandbag

written by Ken Lee

Director: Ewen Coleman

The Darling Buds of May

written by H E Bates

Director: Ewen Coleman

Ophelia Thinks Harder

written by Jean Betts

Director: John Marwick

 

2008

The Girl, The Gun & The Chair
The Corset Stays

written by Ingrid Sage

Director: Ingrid Sage

The Girl, The Gun & The Chair
Two Women and a Chair

written by Michael Olsen

Director: Liz Lipski

The Importance of Being Earnest

written by Oscar Wilde

Director: Julia Harris

 

2007

Possible Worlds

written by John Mighton

Director: Dan Ashworth

The Crucible

written by Arthur Miller

Director: Ewen Coleman

Shakespeare Revue

written by Christopher Luscombe and Malcolm McKee

Director: Sue Miller

 

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