Production Archive
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.
If you’re looking for details of current productions, please see our What’s On listing.
Productions from 1954 to 1961
Love for Love
by William Congreve • directed by Margaret Shackleton
December 1961 • The Civic Theatre
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Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare • directed by John Brewster
October 1961 • The Civic Theatre • Leeds Civic Arts Guild
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Stage Door
by Edna Ferber and George S. Kaufman • directed by Joyce Adcock
September 1961 • The Civic Theatre
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Serious Charge
by Philip King • directed by Hazel Irving
June 1961 • The Civic Theatre
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare • directed by Barbara Dalley
April – May 1961 • The Civic Theatre
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Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
by Unknown, edited by Montagu Slater • directed by Gerry Armytage
January 1961 • The Civic Theatre
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A Doll’s House
by Henrik Ibsen • directed by Maureen Rutter
November 1960 • The Civic Theatre
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Rape of the Belt
by Benn W. Levy • directed by Margaret Shackleton
September 1960 • The Civic Theatre
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With Bells On V
by Joyce Adcock and Gordon Caleb
June 1960 • The Civic Theatre
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Henry IV, Part One
by William Shakespeare • directed by Malcolm Ash
March – April 1960 • The Civic Theatre
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The Prodigious Snob
by Molière, adapted by Miles Malleson • directed by Gerry Armytage
February 1960 • The Civic Theatre
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Dark of the Moon
by Howard Richardson and William Berney • directed by Joyce Adcock
November 1959 • The Civic Theatre
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Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller • directed by Malcolm Ash
September 1959 • The Civic Theatre
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The Love of Four Colonels
by Peter Ustinov • directed by Cedrick Vendyback
June 1959 • The Civic Theatre
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare • directed by Joyce Adcock
March 1959 • The Civic Theatre
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A Streetcar Named Desire
by Tennessee Williams • directed by Malcolm Ash
January 1959 • The Civic Theatre
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Hannibal’s Highway
by Joyce Adcock and Gordon Caleb • directed by Joyce Adcock and Gordon Caleb
December 1958 • The Civic Theatre
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The Ghost Train
by Arnold Ridley • directed by Margaret Shackleton
September 1958 • The Civic Theatre
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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller • directed by Malcolm Ash
June 1958 • The Civic Theatre
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Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
March 1958
The Late Edwina Black
by William Dinner and William Morum • directed by Margaret Shackleton
January – February 1958
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With Bells On IV
by Joyce Adcock and Gordon Caleb • directed by Joyce Adcock and Gordon Caleb
December 1957 • The Civic Theatre
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Arsenic and Old Lace
by Joseph Kesselring
probably October 1957
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
probably March 1957
With Bells On III
by Joyce Adcock and Gordon Caleb • directed by Joyce Adcock and Gordon Caleb
June 1956 • The Civic Theatre
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The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
probably March 1956
With Bells On II
by Joyce Adcock and Gordon Caleb • directed by Joyce Adcock and Gordon Caleb
June 1955 • The Civic Theatre
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë, adapted by Helen Jerome • directed by Mary Dobson
May 1955 • The Civic Theatre
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As You Like It
by William Shakespeare • directed by Ladley Pearson
March 1955 • The Civic Theatre
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Spring 1600
by Emlyn Williams • directed by Joyce Adcock
February 1955 • The Civic Theatre
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Beauty and the Beast
by Nicholas Stuart Gray • directed by Joyce Adcock and Margaret Shackleton
November – December 1954 • The Civic Theatre • Leeds Children’s Theatre
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Don’t Listen, Ladies!
by Sacha Guitry, translated by Stephen Powys and Guy Bolton • directed by Cedric Vendyback
November 1954 • The Civic Theatre
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Hobson’s Choice
by Harold Brighouse • directed by Roy Johnson
September 1954 • The Civic Theatre
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With Bells On I
by Joyce Adcock and Gordon Caleb • directed by Joyce Adcock and Gordon Caleb
May 1954 • The Civic Theatre
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The Joker and the Knave
by W. L. Melton • directed by Anne Miles and Arthur Cox
March – April 1954 • The Civic Theatre • Leeds Children’s Theatre
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The Young Elizabeth
by Jennette Dowling and Francis Letton • directed by Ladley Pearson
March 1954 • The Civic Theatre
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The Man Who Came to Dinner
by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman • directed by Joyce Adcock
January 1954 • The Civic Theatre
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