Leeds Arts Centre has been producing four or five plays a year at the Carriageworks – and before that at the Leeds Civic Theatre – since 1945. This area of the site contains details of those productions, along with many photographs, programmes, publicity materials, set and costume designs.
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by William Shakespeare • directed by Stanley Smith
December 1969 • The Civic Theatre
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by J. B. Fagan and Vivian Ellis • directed by Gerry Armytage
October 1969 • The Civic Theatre
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by Peter Nichols • directed by Sydney Irving
June 1969 • The Civic Theatre
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by John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy • directed by Malcolm Brown
April 1969 • The Civic Theatre
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by T. S. Eliot • directed by Stanley Smith
probably April 1969 • The Civic Theatre
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by Alexander Dumas Fils, translated by Henriette Metcalf • directed by Gerry Armytage
January 1969 • The Civic Theatre
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by William Shakespeare • directed by Stanley Smith
November 1968 • The Civic Theatre
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by Unknown • directed by Olive Richardson
September 1968 • The Civic Theatre
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by Brandon Thomas • directed by Gerry Armytage
May 1968 • The Civic Theatre
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by William Shakespeare • directed by Jack Lewis
March 1968 • The Civic Theatre
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by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade • directed by Margaret Rhodes
January – February 1968 • The Civic Theatre
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by John Arden • directed by Sydney Irving
December 1967 • The Civic Theatre
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by Noël Coward • directed by Stanley Smith
October 1967 • The Civic Theatre
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by Donald Howarth • directed by Margaret Rhodes
June 1967 • The Civic Theatre
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by Arthur W. Pinero • directed by Gerry Armytage
May 1967 • The Civic Theatre
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by William Shakespeare • directed by Maureen Rutter
February 1967 • The Civic Theatre
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by John Gay • directed by Sydney Irving
December 1966 • The Civic Theatre
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by N. F. Simpson • directed by James J. Boyer
October 1966 • The Civic Theatre
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by Henrik Ibsen • directed by Stuart Bennett
May 1966 • The Civic Theatre
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by William Shakespeare • directed by Maureen Rutter
March – April 1966 • The Civic Theatre
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by William Congreve
February 1966 • The Civic Theatre
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by James Saunders • directed by Sydney Irving
December 1965 • The Civic Theatre
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by Noël Coward • directed by Gerry Armytage
September – October 1965 • The Civic Theatre
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by John Whiting • directed by Sydney Irving
May – June 1965 • The Civic Theatre
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by William Shakespeare • directed by Margaret Rhodes
March – April 1965 • The Civic Theatre
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by Oscar Wilde • directed by Stanley Smith
January 1965 • The Civic Theatre
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by Sydney Irving, music by Joseph Cooper • directed by Gerry Armytage
December 1964 • The Civic Theatre
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by Harold Brighouse • directed by Maureen Rutter
October 1964 • The Civic Theatre
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by John Arden • directed by Sydney Irving
June 1964 • The Civic Theatre
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by William Shakespeare • directed by Gerry Armytage
April 1964 • The Civic Theatre
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by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee • directed by Philip Weston
January 1964 • The Civic Theatre
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by Christopher Fry • directed by Margaret Rhodes
November 1963 • The Civic Theatre
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by Jean Anouilh • directed by Maureen Rutter
October 1963 • The Civic Theatre
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by George Bernard Shaw • directed by Margaret Shackleton
June 1963 • The Civic Theatre
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by J. B. Priestley • directed by Stanley Smith
May 1963 • The Civic Theatre
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by William Shakespeare • directed by Ray Spurgeon
February – March 1963 • The Civic Theatre
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by Tennessee Williams • directed by Jack Lewis
January 1963 • The Civic Theatre
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by W. H. Smith and a Gentleman • directed by Gerry Armytage and Olive Richardson
November 1962 • The Civic Theatre
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by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall • directed by Maureen Rutter
September 1962 • The Civic Theatre
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by Joyce Adcock and Gordon Caleb, Performed in June and August • directed by Joyce Adcock and Maureen Rutter
June 1962 • The Civic Theatre
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by William Shakespeare • directed by Stanley Smith
April 1962 • The Civic Theatre
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by William Inge • directed by Jack Lewis
January – February 1962 • The Civic Theatre
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by William Congreve • directed by Margaret Shackleton
December 1961 • The Civic Theatre
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by William Shakespeare • directed by John Brewster
October 1961 • The Civic Theatre • Leeds Civic Arts Guild
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by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman • directed by Joyce Adcock
September 1961 • The Civic Theatre
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by Philip King • directed by Hazel Irving
June 1961 • The Civic Theatre
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by William Shakespeare • directed by Barbara Dalley
April – May 1961 • The Civic Theatre
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by Unknown, edited by Montagu Slater • directed by Gerry Armytage
January 1961 • The Civic Theatre
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by Henrik Ibsen • directed by Maureen Rutter
November 1960 • The Civic Theatre
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by Benn W. Levy • directed by Margaret Shackleton
September 1960 • The Civic Theatre
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by Joyce Adcock and Gordon Caleb
June 1960 • The Civic Theatre
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by William Shakespeare • directed by Malcolm Ash
March – April 1960 • The Civic Theatre
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by Molière, adapted by Miles Malleson • directed by Gerry Armytage
February 1960 • The Civic Theatre
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