List of plays staged by Nelson Repertory Theatre since 1936
1936 Aren’t We All
1937 Distinguished Gathering
Full House
1938 Busman’s Honeymoon
1939 Sprint Meeting
1940 Nine ‘Til Six
Hayfever
1941 Night Must Fall
Fresh Fields
1942 Home From Home
1943 Blythe Spirit
1944 Dear Octopus
Flare Path
1945 Arsenic & Old Lace
Junior Miss
1946 Peter Pan
Tony Draws A Horse
1947 Ghost Train
Rebecca
Rookery Nook
1948 The Marquise
Quiet Wedding
1949 The Barretts of Wimpole Street
Pygmalion
The Winslow Boy
1950 Joan of Lorraine
Grand National Night
Women Aren’t Angels
1951 The Paragon
The School for Scandal
Castle in the Air
1952 I Remember Mamma
Laburnum Grove
The Happiest Days of Your Life
1953 Life With Father
The Merchant of Venice
Ambrose Applejohn’s Adventure
1954 Ever Since Paradise
A Lady Misled
She Stoops to Conquer
1955 Dial M For Murder
The Magistrate
And No Birds Sing
1956 The Hollow
One Wild Oat
The Tinder Box
1957 After My Fashion
Dear Charles
The Two Mrs Carrolls
1958 The Shop at Sly Corner
Travellers Joy
My Three Angels
1959 Diary of Anne Frank
The Bride and the Bachelor
The Heiress
1960 Peter Pan
Relative Values
1961 Speaking of Murder
As Long As They’re Happy
Tea House of the August Moon
1962 Out Town
The Telescope
Time Out For Ginger
Let’s Go (Revue)
1963 Hot Summer Night
All For Mary
The House by the Lake
1964 The Chiltern Hundreds
As You Like It
Brush With A Body
1965 Hayfever
Topaze
What’s Brewing (Revue)
1966 Meet A Body
Hobson’s Choice
Book of the Month
1967 Knaughty Knights (Extravaganza)
Desperate Hours
Time Remembered
1968 In Town Tonight (Revue)
Gaslight
Cinderella
1969 The Crucible
The Amorous Prawn
Private Lives
1970 The Remarkable Mr Pennypacker
Pygmalion
Aladdin
1971 Chase Me Charley
The Little Noggers
New Clothes for the Emperor
1972 The Reluctant Debutante
Policy For Murder
Robin Hood
1973 The Knack
Aunt Edwina
The Old Ladies
A Christmas Carol
1974 Cat on the Fiddle
Tartuffe
A Man For All Seasons
Jack and the Beanstalk
1975 Not Now Darling
Your Obedient Servant
Tom Jones
Dick Whittington And His Cat
1976 Sweeney Todd
Arms And the Man
There’s A Girl In My Soup
The Man Most Likely To
Listen to the Wind
1977 The Lion in Winter
Oh! What a Lovely War
One Night in Dead Man’s Gulch
Wait Until Dark
Sleeping Beauty
1978 Move Over Mrs Markham
Spider’s Web
Show of the Century (Revue)
My Three Angels
Mother Goose
1979 All My Sons
A Bit Between The Teeth
Rattle Of A Simple Man
Black Comedy
Splitting Hairs
The Pied Piper
1980 Barefoot in the Park
Open Week
Cinderella
1981 Arsenic and Old Lace
It Was The Lark
Hayfever
Red Riding Hood
1982 Fifty Fifty
Tomb With a View
Blythe Spirit
The Tinder Box
1983 Bullshot Crummond
Lloyd George Knew My Father
The Corsican Brothers
Aladdin
1984 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
A Bed Full of Foreigners
Junior Showtime
In The Mood
Camelot
Who’s Line Is It Anyway
The Queen of Hearts
1985 Habeus Corpus
150th Nelson Anniversary Celebration
The Gingerbread Man
Beauty and the Beast
1986 Let Sleeping Wives Lie
Owl and the Pussycat
Puss in Boots
1987 When Did You Last See Your Trousers?
1988 Amadeus
1989 Black Comedy
The Corsican Brothers
1990 It’s My Life and I’ll Die if I Want to
Bullshot Crummond
1991 Noises Off
1992 Little Shop of Horrors
Pantomime devised by Annie Millard
1993 Ladies Night #1
Hay Fever
Pantomime devised by Annie Millard
1994 Ladies Night # 2
Sex Fiend
Pack of Girls
1995 Legless Daughters of Heaven
1998 Mort
1999 Stags & Hens
Robin Hood
2000 Winnie the Pooh
2003 Are You Being Served
2004 Alice & Friends in Wonderland
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2008 Jack & the Beanstalk (staged at the Girls College)
2009 Footrot Flats
Dick Whittington (staged at the Girls College)
2010 The Pirates of Penzance (with NOAS)
2011 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Art
Snow White
2012 Drinking Habits
Red Riding Hood & The Three Little Pigs
One Act Play Festival
2013 Erogenous Zones
Love Broadway
Calendar Girls
2014 Cosi
Secret Bridesmaids Business
Cinderella Goes to Bollywood
2015 Beauty and the Beast
2016 Caravan
Curtain Up
Buzzz
2017 One Man Two Govnors
Love Love Love
67 off 52
2018 The Full Monty
The Naked Truth
A Christmas Carol (Steampunk Style)
2019 ‘Allo ‘Allo
Dracula – The Bloody Truth
One Act Play Festival
2020 Sinbad the Sailor – Retired
2021 The Pink Hammer
Treasure Island
2022 Murder on the Nile
Camelot
2023 Pride and Prejudice
Go West
2024 Vinegar Tom
2025 My Fair Lady
Viking Ha!
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