Irving Stage Company's

HISTORY

 

 

 

 

 

Past Productions 1959 -2004

Courtesy of Dennis O'Leary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Date

 

Production

Director

Venue

Archive

1959

       

 

Thieves Carnival

 

 

Tollgate

 

1960

       

 

 

 

She Stoops to Conquer

 

 

 

Tollgate

 

1961

       

 

 

 

Morning Departure

 

 

 

Tollgate

 

1963

       

 

 

 

Salad Days

 

 

 

Tollgate

 

1 prog

1964

       

 

 

 

Pygmalion

 

 

 

Tollgate

 

 

 

The Private Ear and Public Eye

 

 

 

Tollgate

 

!965

The Boy Friend

 

Theatre Royal

1st Amateur prod. in re-opened theatre

back to the top

 

1966

       

 

 

 

Tambora and the Singing Clown(Panto)

 

 

 

Theatre Royal

 

1967 31st Dec’66-

7th Jan.’67

Salad Days

By Julian Slade

 

Theatre Royal

Prog.

 

Roots

by Arnold Wesker

 

 

 

 

1968

The Cherry Orchard

 

 

 

4 photos

 

Under Milk Wood

By Dylan Thomas

 

 

 

1 photo

1969

The Sleeping Beauty (Panto)

 

 

Theatre Royal

 

 

The Queen and the Rebels

 

 

 

 

 

There and Back (Revue) by Richard White

Music :Geoffrey Wright

Theatre Royal

150th anniversary of Theatre Royal

Review

1970

Arsenic and Old Lace

 

 

 

10 photos

1971

Dick Whittington (Panto)

 

 

 

 

 

You Never Can Tell

 

 

 

1 photo

 

Breath of Spring

 

 

 back to the top

 

1972

       

 

 

 

Lock up your Daughters

 

 

 

 

3 photos

 

Ring Around the Moon

 

 

 

 

1973

       

 

 

 

Witness for the Prosecution

 

 

 

 

 

The Crucible

By Arthur Miller

 

 

 

 

 

Hay Fever

 

 

 

4 photos

1974

       

 

 

15th – 20th April

 

Toad of Toad Hall

 

 

 

1 prog.

 

A Christmas Carol

 

 

 

2 photos

1975

       

 

 

 

Ten Little Niggers

By Agatha Christie

 

 

 

 

4 photos

 

A Lady Mislaid

 

 

 

1 photo

 

Charley’s Aunt

 

 

 

11 photos

1976

       

 

 

 

Time and Time Again

 

 

Theatre Royal

 

Prog. Flyer

2 photos

                                

 

 

Spider’s Web

By Agatha Christie

 

 

 

 

 

back to the top

 

Prog.

1 photo

1977

       

 

 

8th-12th November

 

The Owl and the Pussycat Went to See…

 

Paul Deane

 

Theatre Royal

 

Prog.

1 Photo

 

1978

       

 

 

 

A Murder Has Been Arranged

 

 

 

 

27th Nov.-2nd Dec.

Habeas Corpus

By Alan Bennett

 

Ray Dyer

Theatre Royal

2 progs

 17 photos

Flyer

1979

       

 

 

 

The Plotter of Cabbage Patch Corner

 

 

 

 

22nd-27th October

The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan

 

Alistair Robertson

Theatre Royal

Poster

2 flyers

Review

5 progs.

16 photos

Letter from Tony Butterworth

 

1980

       

 

 

17th-22nd March

 

The National Health by Peter Nichols

 

Peter Scott-Smith

 

Theatre Royal

 

2 progs

19 photos

1 Review

1 letter

21st-26th October 

Hotel Paradiso

By Georges Feydeau

 

Ray Dyer

Theatre Royal

2 Progs.

 

21st December

Christmas Candles

Ray Dyer

Theatre Royal

 

back to the top

3 Progs.

Cheque presentation photo

 

1981

       

 

 

3rd-7th March

 

Engaged

By  W.S.Gilbert

 

 

Chris Lines

 

Theatre Royal

 

2 progs

8 photos

2nd July

Albert’s Bridge

By Tom Stoppard

 

Ed Hills

Theatre Royal

One Act Drama Competion

1 prog.

 

3rd-7th November

 

 

When We are Married

By J.B.Priestley

Dennis O’Leary

Theatre Royal

2 posters

1 Prog.

16 photos

1 review

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 1982

 

 

 

 

 

 

23rd -28th March

 

Cowardy Custard

By Gerald Frow,Alan Stachan  and Wendy Toye

 

 

Ray Dyer

 

Theatre Royal

 

5 progs

2 posters

22 photos

9th and 10th July

Mixed  Doubles

 

The Drama Studio

Northgate Street