Northcott Theatre

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The Northcott Theatre after its 2007 refurbishment.

The Northcott Theatre is a theatre situated on the Streatham Campus of the University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, England.

1 History
2 The Theatre in recent years
3 Expansion and threatened closure
4 Artistic Directors
5 Past Northcott Theatre Company Productions
6 References
7 Further reading
8 See also

[edit] History

The Northcott is the seventh building in Exeter to be used as a theatre.

In 1962, the Theatre Royal, Exeter was demolished to be replaced by an office block; however there were many people in Exeter who were determined that the city should not be without a theatre for very long. Early in 1962 Mr G V Northcott had started negotiations with the Board of Directors of the Theatre Royal with the view to "saving" the theatre, and its re-creation as a theatre and arts centre. A small group from the University of Exeter prepared a memorandum explaining how they saw the Theatre Royal functioning in the kind of way that Mr Northcott visualised and outlining some ideas. They submitted this memorandum to the Board of Directors of the Theatre Royal and to Mr Northcott. After some time, however, negotiations failed to develop and the Theatre Royal was sold.

For a time, informal discussions continued between Mr Northcott and the University, and later in 1962 more formal contacts were made. The then Vice-Chancellor pointed out that the University had for some time earmarked a site for a theatre on its Development Plan and it was possible that, in collaboration with the University, Mr Northcott's ideas for a theatre and arts centre could be realised.

Ultimately, the University offered a site: Mr Northcott established a trust with a benefaction of £100,000 (later supplemented by a generous gift of £50,000 from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and by other bodies), to establish the "Northcott Devon Theatre and Arts Centre", which would serve the needs of the community in the region. The Northcott Theatre opened with a production of The Merchant of Venice, starring Tony Church, its first Artistic Director, on 2 November 1967. Barbara Hepworth unveiled one of her sculptures in the foyer on opening night. The architects were Sir William Holford and Partners and the theatre consultant Michael Warre.

Actors who spent time in the Northcott company in their earlier careers include Polly James, Lesley Joseph, John Nettles, Robert Lindsay, Brian Protheroe, Bob Peck, Geraldine James, Celia Imrie and Imelda Staunton. In its first years, the company originated a number of plays of West Country interest, including new historical drama by Jack Emery and an adaptation of the Cornish Passion Play. It also toured productions throughout the area.

[edit] The Theatre in recent years

The Northcott continued to serve the needs of the local community. The Board of Management is representative of both the University and of the community, and the University provides for the Director's salary and assists in the maintenance of the building. Financial assistance towards the running costs also comes from South West Arts, Devon County Council, the City of Exeter, East Devon District Council, Teignbridge District Council, and Mid-Devon District Council.

The Northcott has always been a producing repertory theatre, that is to say the bulk of the productions are staged by the company itself, rather than being brought in from elsewhere.

The Northcott has customarily been open for approximately 44 weeks of the year, during which time some 10 or 11 in-house or co-produced shows are mounted for runs of between 10 days to 3½ weeks (the Christmas show being the only one that runs for approximately 6 weeks). It has developed links with other theatre companies, leading to several joint ventures. This development is one which the company hopes to build on, including perhaps links with other repertory companies across the country. Northcott Theatre company productions vary from comedies to tragedies, new writing to classics. To a lesser degree, the Northcott also presents visiting companies (e.g. English Touring Opera), amateur productions and some one-night events. Its annual open air Shakespeare performance in the grounds of Rougemont Castle is well regarded nationally. It also promotes a Drama in Education group now called "Northcott Young Company".

The Northcott employs 20 full-time staff to mount shows, administer and market the theatre. There is also a large team of part-time workers including box office staff, usherettes, bar staff and backstage casuals.

As built the theatre was given a semicircular main house auditorium seating 433 people with an orchestra pit on a mechanical lift; being also configurable as theatre in the round or cinema. The capacity of the venue was increased in the 2007 refurbishment and it can now seat 466.

[edit] Expansion and threatened closure

In March 2005, the directors of the Northcott announced that planning permission and funding would be sought for a £3.1 million building project to expand front of house facilities and increase the capacity of the auditorium to 538 seats.^[1]

Having raised £2.1 million, the theatre was closed for refurbishment in January 2007 and reopened on 12 December 2007, near the fortieth anniversary of its first opening.

The refurbishment provided the following;

New auditorium seating
Additional wheelchair spaces
A lift to all public levels, providing full disabled access
Improved disabled facilities
Redecorated and upgraded public areas
Additional space for eating and drinking in the foyer
An enhanced entrance area
Refurbished and improved technical areas

The day before the rebranded Exeter Northcott reopened in December 2007, Arts Council England threatened withdrawal of its entire £547,000 annual grant. The loss of a third of the theatre's operating costs would result in a drastic cutback in production and job losses, if the theatre even managed to stay open.^[2]^[3] However on 1 February 2008 the Arts Council England announced a reprieve for the Exeter Northcott and its continued funding.^[4]

[edit] Artistic Directors

List formerly published on the Northcott Theatre website

1967 - 1971: Tony Church (Artistic Director), Robin Phillips (Associate Director), Bernard Goss (Writer in Residence)
1971 - 1974: Jane Howell (Artistic Director), Jack Emery & Kevin Robinson (Associate Directors)
1974 - 1977: Geoffrey Reeves (Artistic Director)
1978 - 1980: Richard Digby Day (Artistic Director), Michael Winter & Crispin Thomas (Associate Directors)
1981 - 1985: Stewart Trotter (Artistic Director)
1986 - 1990: George Roman (Artistic Director), Martin Harvey (Associate Director)
1991 - 1998: John Durnin (Artistic Director), Tim Carroll (Associate Director), Charlotte Conquest & Gillian King (Assistant Directors), Robert Shearman (Writer in Residence)
1998 - present: Ben Crocker (Artistic Director)

[edit] Past Northcott Theatre Company Productions

List to 2007 formerly published on the Northcott Theatre website

1967 - 2 November - The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (Opening Production)
1967 - 15 November - The Knack by Ann Jellicoe
1967 - 22 December - Big Noise at Fort Issimo by Bernard Goss
1968 - 25 January - The Play of William Cooper & Edward Dew Nevitt by David Selbourne
1968 - 22 February - The Beggar's Opera by John Gay
1968 - 3 April - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
1968 - 1 May - Rookery Nook by Ben Travers
1968 - 4 June - The Promise by Aleksei Arbuzov
1968 - 2 July - Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
1968 - 29 July - The Bastard King by Jack Emery
1968 - 5 November - Sisters by Don Taylor
1968 - 4 December - A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
1968 - 21 December - Big Noise at Fort Issimo by Bernard Goss
1969 - 5 February - The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
1969 - 5 March - The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
1969 - 23 March - She Stoops to Conquer by Goldsmith
1969 - 4 June - Oh! What A Lovely War by Charles Chiltern
1969 - 19 August - Beyond the Fringe by Bennett, Miller, Cook & Moore
1969 - 22 September - Wesley: A Man Against His Age
1969 - 14 October - Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
1969 - 19 November - Hamlet by William Shakespeare
1969 - 20 December - Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas
1969 - 29 December - The Adventures of Noah's Ark
1970 - 3 February - Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
1970 - 3 March - A Day in the Death of Joe Egg by Peter Nichols
1970 - 31 March - Abelard and Heloise by Ronald Miller
1970 - 14 May - Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
1970 - 3 June - A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt
1970 - 29 June - Krapps Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
1970 - 13 July - Happy Days by Samuel Beckett
1970 - 28 July - Four Degrees Over by John Gould & David Wood
1970 - 1 September - Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn
1970 - 23 September - The Roses of Eyam by Don Taylor
1970 - 28 October - The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
1970 - 10 December - The Boyfriend by Sandy Wilson
1970 - 23 December - The Fantastic Fairground by Bernard Goss
1971 - 3 February - The Price by Arthur Miller
1971 - 14 April - First production by Artistic Director Jane Howell
1971 - 14 April - Narrow Road to the Deep North by Edward Bond
1971 - 19 May - The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertholt Brecht
1971 - 16 June - The Fair Maid of the West by Thomas Heywood
1971 - 25 August - Private Lives by Noel Coward
1971 - 29 September - Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov
1971 - 27 October - Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
1971 - 15 December - Guys & Dolls by Loesser, Swerling & Burrows
1971 - 22 December - Happy Families
1972 - 8 February - The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
1972 - 15 May - The Cornish Passion Play by Anon
1972 - 19 April - Galileo by Bertholt Brecht
1972 - 8 May - Stop Thief improvised by company
1972 - 17 May - The Alchemist by Ben Jonson
1972 - 22 May - Pollution (Studio)
1972 - 29 May - The School for Wives by Molière
1972 - 14 June - Giants at Play devised by company
1972 - 16 August - A Flea in her Ear by Feydeau
1972 - 20 September - Measure for Measure by Howard Brenton
1972 - 25 October - Happy as a Sandbag by Ken Lee
1972 - 13 December - Old Time Music Hall by Various
1972 - 20 December - John Willy and the Bee People by Alan Cullen
1973 - 7 February - The Hostage by Brendan Behan
1973 - 20 March - The Mystery Coach Trip Explained by Roger Booth
1973 - 10 April - Loot by Joe Orton
1973 - 2 May - The Tempest by William Shakespeare
1973 - 30 May - Mrs Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw
1973 - 13 June - The Pope's Wedding by Edward Bond
1973 - 14 August - The Cornish Mystery Cycle - The Creation by Anon
1973 - 12 September - Judge Jeffreys by Jack Emery
1973 - 2 October - The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
1973 - 10 October - Armstrong's Last Goodnight by John Arden
1973 - 14 November - Bingo by Edward Bond
1973 - 12 December - The Owl & The Pussycat Went To See by Shiela Ruskin & David Wood
1973 - 19 December - Kiss Me Kate by Cole Porter
1974 - 30 January - Hay Fever by Noel Coward
1974 - 13 March - Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
1974 - 2 April - First production by Artistic Director Geoffrey Reeves
1974 - 2 April - An Inspector Calls by J.B.Priestly
1974 - 30 April - The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley
1974 - 28 May - The Entertainer by John Osborne
1974 - 27 June - Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw (Exeter Festival)
1974 - 23 July - Black Eye'd Susan by Douglas Jerrold
1974 - 20 August - Words and Music by Noel Coward
1974 - 2 September - The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
1974 - 17 September - Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
1974 - 7 October - Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
1974 - 24 October - For Services Rendered by W.Somerset Maugham
1974 - 18 November - Hello and Goodbye by Athol Fugard
1974 - 10 December - King Stag by Carlo Gozzi
1974 - 18 December - Pal Joey by Rodgers & Hart
1975 - 4 February - Fallen Angels by Noel Coward
1975 - 13 February - Trees in the Wind
1975 - 18 March - The Playboy of the Western World by J.M.Synge
1975 - 17 April - Thark by Ben Travers
1975 - 23 April - Creditors / The Stronger by Strindberg
1975 - 16 June - The Provok'd Wife by Sir John Vanburgh
1975 - 10 July - Stop the World, I Want to Get Off by Anthony Newley / Leslie Bricusse
1975 - 16 July - Time and Time Again by Alan Ayckbourn
1975 - 28 August - Salad Days by Julian Slade
1975 - 2 October - A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
1975 - 21 October - Home by David Storey
1975 - 12 November - Hamlet by William Shakespeare
1975 - 10 December - Big Noise at Fort Issimo by Bernard Goss
1975 - 18 December - My Fair Lady - Lerner & Loewe
1976 - 29 January - The Italian Straw Hat by W.S.Gilbert
1976 - 3 March - Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton
1976 - 7 April - All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare
1976 - 6 May - Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
1976 - 25 May - The Gingerbread House by Rex Dale
1976 - 27 May - Lorenzo by David Storey
1976 - 22 June - How the Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn
1976 - 28 July - Cowardy Custard by Noel Coward
1976 - 26 August - Anything Goes by Cole Porter
1976 - 30 September - Now Here's A Funny Thing by David Kelsey
1976 - 20 October - Antony & Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
1976 - 18 November - Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle & William Gillette
1976 - 15 December - The Adventures of Alice adapted from Lewis Carroll
1976 - 23 December - West Side Story by Bernstein & Sondheim
1977 - 3 February - The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1977 - 16 March - Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer
1977 - 12 April - Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas
1977 - 5 May - Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Tim Rice / Andrew Lloyd Webber
1977 - 9 June - A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
1977 - 7 July - Rat Trap by Bob Blake / Dave Martin
1977 - 3 August - Bars of Gould by John Gould / Dave Wood
1977 - 23 August - Betjemania - Revue based on the works of Sir John Betjeman
1977 - 1 September - The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn
1977 - 12 October - Othello by William Shakespeare
1977 - 17 November - Mr Rhodes by Ronald Gow
1977 - 15 December - The Boyfriend by Sandy Wilson
1977 - 22 December - Rock Nativity by David Wood / Tony Hatch / Jackie Trent
1978 - 1 February - First production by Artistic Director Richard Digby Day
1978 - 1 February - On Approval by Frederick Lonsdale
1978 - 3 February - Krapps Last Tape by Samuel Beckett / Landscape by Harold Pinter
1978 - 8 March - Travesties by Tom Stoppard
1978 - 5 April - Old World by Aleksei Arbuzov
1978 - 7 April - Stevie by Hugh Whitemore
1978 - 3 May - Good King Charles's Golden Days by George Bernard Shaw
1978 - 24 May - Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett
1978 - 26 May - Beckett's Women
1978 - 21 June - Electra / Oh Coward! by Roderick Cook
1978 - 12 July - Dear Daddy by Denis Cannon
1978 - 3 August - Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt (in Exeter Cathedral)
1978 - 24 August - Cabaret by Kander & Ebb
1978 - 6 October - Macbeth by William Shakespeare
1978 - 12 October - As You Like It by William Shakespeare
1978 - 18 October - Mill on the Floss
1978 - 24 October - Zoo Story by Edward Albee
1978 - 8 November - George Eliot
1978 - 15 November - 'Tis Pity She's A Whore by John Ford
1978 - 1 December - Sweet Mr Shakespeare
1978 - 21 December - Cinderella by Alan Brown
1979 - 2 February - Lovers of Viorne (in Exeter Library)
1979 - 20 February - Side By Side By Sondheim
1979 - 15 March - What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton
1979 - 5 April - Mother Dear by Royce Ryton
1979 - 26 April - The Beggars Opera by John Gay
1979 - 4 May - Counting the Ways / Listening
1979 - 24 May - Jumpers by Tom Stoppard
1979 - 13 June - St Joan by George Bernard Shaw
1979 - 4 July - Arsenic & Old Lace by Joseph Kesselring
1979 - 27 July - A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim
1979 - 22 August - The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
1979 - 4 September - Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber
1979 - 18 September - Side By Side By Sondheim (Exeter Cathedral)
1979 - 4 October - Macready (Northcott Studio)
1979 - 4 October - Julius Caeser by William Shakespeare
1979 - 10 October - The Man with the Flower in his Mouth
1979 - 26 October - Henry V by William Shakespeare
1979 - 31 October - Gerontius
1979 - 16 November - Way of the World by William Congreve
1979 - 21 November - Christie in Love by Howard Brenton (Northcott Studio)
1979 - 21 December - Jack and the Beanstalk
1980 - 4 February - Halfway up the Stairs by Ian Fell
1980 - 5 March - Ivor by Crispin Thomas
1980 - 21 March - Firbank
1980 - 28 March - Queen Victoria's Grahddaughters
1980 - 2 April - Woe to the Sparrows by Royce Ryton
1980 - 15 May - The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
1980 - 23 May - Candida by George Bernard Shaw
1980 - 12 June - Privates on Parade by Peter Nichols
1980 - 9 July - Boeing Boeing by Marc Camoletti
1980 - 15 August - Company by Sondheim
1980 - 3 September - Dynasts by Thomas Hardy (Exeter Cathedral)
1980 - 19 September - Old Times by Harold Pinter
1980 - 9 October - The Circle by W.Somerset Maughan
1980 - 6 November - She Stoops to Conquer by Goldsmith
1980 - 20 November - The River by Charles Mander
1980 - 19 December - Godspell by Tebelak & Schwarz
1981 - 18 February - First production by Artistic Director Stewart Trotter
1981 - 18 February - I Love My Love by Fay Weldon
1981 - 25 March - King Lear by William Shakespeare
1981 - 29 April - Design for Living by Noel Coward
1981 - 27 May - Dear Brutus by J.M.Barrie
1981 - 24 June - Murderer by Anthony Shaffer
1981 - 22 July - Dandy Dick by Arthur Wing Pinero
1981 - 20 August - The Dresser by Ronald Harwood
1981 - 3 September - The John Donne Show by Julian Sands (Exeter Cathedral)
1981 - 17 September - Loves Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
1981 - 15 October - Flare Path by Terrence Rattigan
1981 - 12 November - Favours by Duncan Forbes
1981 - 18 December - Aladdin by Rory McGrath & Jimmy Mulville
1982 - 27 April - Othello by William Shakespeare
1982 - 28 April - The Recruiting Officer by George Farquhar
1982 - 26 May - Hamlet by William Shakespeare
1982 - 17 June - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
1982 - 11 August - Bitter Sweet by Noel Coward
1982 - 24 September - Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourn
1982 - 20 October - Deep Blue Sea by Terrence Rattigan
1982 - 10 November - Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
1982 - 16 December - Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
1983 - 24 February - The Offshore Island by Margharita Laski
1983 - 14 April - See How They Run by Philip King
1983 - 12 May - Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon
1983 - 9 June - You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw
1983 - 30 June - Deathtrap by Ira Levin
1983 - 28 July - Perchance to Dream by Ivor Novello
1983 - 15 September - Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
1983 - 6 October - Dirty Linen by Tom Stoppard
1983 - 10 November - Two Planks and a Passion by Anthony Minghella
1983 - 22 December - Showboat by Hammerstein
1984 - 23 February - Donkey's Years by Michael Frayn
1984 - 22 March - Lloyd George Knew My Father by William D.Homer
1984 - 26 April - The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1984 - 17 May - Bent by Martin Sherman
1984 - 21 June - The Arcadians by Ambient, Thompson & Courtneidge
1984 - 9 August - Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
1984 - 28 August - Memoir
1984 - 6 September - The Lady's Not For Burning by Christopher Fry
1984 - 4 October - Educating Rita by Willy Russell
1984 - 8 November - Katerina by Peter Uppard
1984 - 20 December - Toad of Toad Hall by Kenneth Grahame and A.A.Milne
1985 - 24 January - Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward
1985 - 20 March - No Man's Land by Harold Pinter
1985 - 18 April - Funny Peculiar by Mike Stott
1985 - 9 May - When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs
1985 - 29 May - Little Brown Jug by Alan Drury
1985 - 17 June - Above All Courage by Max Arthur
1985 - 27 June - Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
1985 - 25 July - Bless the Bride by Sir Emile Little / Cameron Mackintosh
1985 - 12 September - Separate Tables by Terrence Rattigan
1985 - 10 October - Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
1985 - 19 December - The Railway Children by E.Nesbit
1986 - 8 April - First production by Artistic Director George Roman
1986 - 8 April - Macbeth by William Shakespeare
1986 - 6 May - One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Ken Kelsey
1986 - 3 June - Springtime for Henry by Benn W.Levy
1986 - 1 July - Having A Ball by Alan Bleasdale
1986 - 5 August - Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn
1986 - 9 September - Children of a Lesser God by Mark Medoff
1986 - 7 October - Pump Boys and Dinettes (Consortium Season)
1986 - 15 October - Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (Consortium Season)
1986 - 5 November - Shadow of a Gunman by Sean O'Casey (Consortium Season)
1986 - 17 December - Pickwick by Charles Dickens / Bricusse & Ornadel
1987 - 25 February - Shades of Brown (Consortium Season)
1987 - 11 March - Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas (Consortium Season)
1987 - 24 March - Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (Consortium Season)
1987 - 1 April - Two Way Mirror by Arthur Miller (Northcott Studio)
1987 - 14 April - Peter's Passion
1987 - 5 May - Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
1987 - 29 May - Satie Festival
1987 - 16 June - Trumpets and Raspberries by Dario Fo
1987 - 14 July - Joking Apart by Alan Ayckbourn
1987 - 18 August - On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard
1987 - 15 September - Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
1987 - 29 September - Last of the Red Hot Lovers by Neil Simon
1987 - 7 October - Orphans by Lyle Kessler (Consortium Season) (Northcott Studio)
1987 - 20 October - The Cape Orchard by Michael Picardie (Consortium Season)
1987 - 10 November - The Winters Tale by William Shakespeare
1987 - 16 December - The Wizard of Oz by L.Frank Baum
1988 - 1 March - Close of Play - Simon Gray
1988 - 15 March - Born in the Gardens - Peter Nichols
1988 - 26 April - Simplicity
1988 - 2 June - Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene
1988 - 21 June - Bunter by John Judd
1988 - 26 July - Noises Off by Michael Frayn
1988 - 30 September - Fair Game by George Feydeau
1988 - 18 October - Sherlock Holmes: The Musical by Arthur Conan Doyle / Leslie Bricusse
1988 - 14 December - Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie
1989 - 22 February - Duet for One by Tom Kempinski
1989 - 8 March - Ancestors and Diamonds
1989 - 22 March - The Gin Game by D.L.Coburn
1989 - 25 April - Whose Life Is It Anyway? by Brian Clark
1989 - 20 June - Serious Money by Caryl Churchill
1989 - 18 July - A Chorus of Disapproval by Alan Ayckbourn
1989 - 22 August - Never the Sinner by John Logan
1989 - 19 September - Dog in the Manger by Lope de Vega
1989 - 24 October - King Lear by William Shakespeare
1989 - 13 December - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll / John Wells / Carl Davis
1990 - 7 February - Gosforth's Fete by Alan Ayckbourn / Steinway Grand by Ferenc Karinthy / The Anniversary by Anton Chekhov (Northcott Studio)
1990 - 14 March - The Hypnos Hormone by David Haines / La Serva Padrona by Pergolesi (Northcott Studio)
1990 - 17 April - The Entertainer by John Osborne (with Good Company)
1990 - 15 May - A Small Family Business by Alan Ayckbourn
1990 - 10 July - Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome, adapted by Paul Burbridge (with Riding Lights Theatre Company)
1990 - 7 August - Witness for the Prosecution by Agatha Christie
1990 - 4 September - Thark by Ben Travers
1990 - 1 October - The Best of Friends by Hugh Whitemore
1990 - 30 October - Falling in Love Again by Laurence Roman
1990 - 12 December - Sleeping Beauty by Brian Protheroe and David Creegan
1991 - 13 February - First production by Artistic Director John Durnin
1991 - 13 February - Funeral Games by Joe Orton & Rough Justice by Connell Morrison (Northcott Studio)
1991 - 13 March - Ruffian on the Stair by Joe Orton & Box by Len Collin (Northcott Studio)
1991 - 14 May - Wild Oats by John O'Keefe
1991 - 2 July - Woman in Mind by Alan Ayckbourn
1991 - 6 August - Company by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
1991 - 24 September - Macbeth by William Shakespeare
1991 - 5 November - Inventing A New Colour by Paul Godfrey
1991 - 11 December - Merlin's Dream by Karoline Leach
1992 - 6 February - One For The Road by Willy Russell
1992 - 7 July - The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas / David Pownall
1992 - 11 August - Outside Edge by Richard Harris
1992 - 15 September - To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee / Christopher Sergel
1992 - 2 November - The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (25th Anniversary Production)
1992 - 9 December - Robin of the Wood by Karoline Leach
1993 - 28 January - Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell
1993 - 11 March - Gaslight by Patrick Hamilton
1993 - 22 July - Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard / Ferenc Molnar
1993 - 24 August - What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton
1993 - 28 September - The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, adapted by Robert Shearman
1993 - 2 November - The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
1993 - 7 December - The Magical Tales of the Brothers Grimm by Robert Shearman
1994 - 27 January - Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
1994 - 23 February - Balls by David Tucker (Northcott Studio)
1994 - 10 March - Taking Steps by Alan Ayckbourn
1994 - 23 March - The Tragedy of Moll Garter & The Ventriloquist by Thomas Forbes (Northcott Studio)
1994 - 28 April - Breaking Bread Together by Robert Shearman
1994 - 12 May - The Last Yankee by Arthur Miller
1994 - 21 July - Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas
1994 - 18 August - Hay Fever by Noël Coward
1994 - 15 September - Amadeus by Peter Shaffer
1994 - 13 October - Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn
1994 - 11 November - Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, adapted by Robert Shearman
1994 - 14 December - Toad of Toad Hall by Kenneth Grahame / A.A.Milne
1995 - 1 February - Elephant Herd by Victor Haltar & The Sneeze by Anton Chekhov (Northcott Studio)
1995 - 9 February - Misery by Stephen King / Simon Moore
1995 - 1 March - The Changeling by Thomas Middleton (Northcott Studio)
1995 - 9 March - Abigails Party by Mike Leigh
1995 - 27 April - The Fire Raisers by Max Frisch (with Riding Lights)
1995 - 18 May - Forty Years On by Alan Bennett
1995 - 4 July - A Midsummer Night's Dream (First Shakespeare in the Gardens production in Rougemont Gardens, Exeter)
1995 - 3 August - Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
1995 - 31 August - I Have Been Here Before by J.B.Priestley
1995 - 28 September - The Modern Husband by Paul Godfrey / Henry Fielding (with Actors Touring Company)
1995 - 12 October - Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck / Frank Galati
1995 - 2 November - Woman in Black by Susan Hill / Stephen Mallatratt
1995 - 13 December - Peter Pan by J.M.Barrie
1996 - 22 January - 'Tis Pity She's A Whore by John Ford (Northcott Studio)
1996 - 21 February - A Curlew's Cry by Paul McClure (Northcott Studio)
1996 - 14 March - Neville's Island by Tim Firth
1996 - 4 June - Single Spies by Alan Bennett
1996 - 9 July - As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Gardens)
1996 - 8 August - Turn of the Screw by Henry James / John Durnin
1996 - 5 September - Under Their Hats by Flanders and Swann / Alan Strachan
1996 - 26 September - The Belle Vue by Ödön von Horvãth (with Actors Touring Company)
1996 - 10 October - Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (with Method and Madness)
1996 - 25 October - Northanger Abbey by Cathy Turner from Jane Austen
1996 - 4 December - Cinderella by John Durnin
1997 - 23 January - A Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare (with Method and Madness)
1997 - 13 February - The Man Who Would Be King (Northcott Studio & tour), devised from Rudyard Kipling
1997 - 10 March - The Passion (Exeter Cathedral & tour)
1997 - 24 April - Travels with My Aunt by Giles Havergal from Graham Greene
1997 - 8 July - Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Gardens)
1997 - 7 August - April in Paris by John Godber
1997 - 28 August - Far From the Madding Crowd, devised from Thomas Hardy
1997 - 9 October - Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
1997 - 31 October - Richard IV by Cathy Turner
1997 - 10 December - Jack and the Beanstalk by John Durnin
1998 - 22 January - The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (with Method and Madness)
1998 - 19 February - The Man Who Would Be King, devised from Rudyard Kipling
1998 - 12 March - Demons and Dybbuks by Isaac Bashevis Singer (with Method and Madness)
1998 - 26 March - Oedipus by Ted Hughes / Seneca
1998 - 30 April - The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde / Peter Quilter / Charles Miller
1998 - 7 July - First production by Artistic Director Ben Crocker
1998 - 7 July - Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare in the Gardens)
1998 - 13 August - Dead Funny by Terry Johnson
1998 - 24 September - She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
1998 - 22 October - Black Dahlia by James Ellroy / Mike Alfreds (with Method and Madness)
1998 - 21 November - Madshow (24 hour performance)
1998 - 9 December - Dick Whittington by John Crocker
1999 - 21 January - Persuasion by Jane Austen, adapted by Mark Healy
1999 - 16 February - Bouncers by John Godber
1999 - 22 October - Buried Alive by Philip Osment (with Method and Madness)
1999 - 3 April - Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame / Alan Bennett(Northcott Young Company / Exeter Phoenix)
1999 - 20 May - A Passionate Woman by Kay Mellor
1999 - 13 July - The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare in the Gardens)
1999 - 26 August - Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward
1999 - 7 October - The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
1999 - 18 November - Lam by Christopher William Hill
1999 - 9 December - Aladdin by John Crocker
2000 - 17 February - Just Between Ourselves by Alan Ayckbourn
2000 - 16 March - Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, adapted by Mark Healy
2000 - 22 April - Wizard of Oz (Northcott Young Company)
2000 - 25 May - Lettice and Lovage by Peter Shaffer
2000 - 11 July - A Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare in the Gardens)
2000 - 24 August - Loot by Joe Orton
2000 - 5 October - The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
2000 - 9 November - The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
2000 - 14 December - Sleeping Beauty by John Crocker
2001 - 8 February - Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
2001 - 15 March - Treehouses by Elizabeth Kuti
2001 - 14 April - Oliver! by Lionel Bart (Northcott Young Company)
2001 - 17 May - Betrayal by Harold Pinter
2001 - 17 July - Hamlet (Shakespeare in the Gardens)
2001 - 30 August - Things We Do For Love by Alan Ayckbourn
2001 - 18 September - The Rise and Fall of Little Voice by Jim Cartwright (with Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds)
2001 - 4 October - Comedians by Trevor Griffiths (with Oxford Stage Company)
2001 - 18 October - The Man of Mode by George Etherege
2001 - 15 November - Hard Times by Charles Dickens / Stephen Jeffreys
2001 - 13 December - Cinderella by John Crocker
2002 - 7 February - French Without Tears by Terence Rattigan
2002 - 14 March - The Night Garden by Lin Coghlan
2002 - 4 April - Tin Pan Ali by David Nield & Jeremy James Taylor (Northcott Young Company)
2002 - 13 June - The Mystery of Irma Vep by Charles Ludlam
2002 - 9 July - Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in the Gardens)
2002 - 14 August - Blood Wedding by Lorca (Northcott Young Company)
2002 - 29 August - Real Inspector Hound & Black Comedy by Tom Stoppard / Peter Shaffer
2002 - 3 October - All My Sons by Arthur Miller
2002 - 7 November - Vanity Fair by Donnellan / Thackeray
2002 - 12 December - Mother Goose by John Crocker
2003 - 6 February - Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn
2003 - 20 March - The Life and Times of Young Bob Scallion by Mick Martin
2003 - 19 April - Oh What A Lovely War by Theatre Workshop (Northcott Young Company)
2003 - 22 May - Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
2003 - 17 July - The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Shakespeare in the Gardens)
2003 - 13 August - Lysistrata by Aristophanes (Northcott Young Company)
2003 - 28 August - Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett
2003 - 24 September - The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot & Helen Edmundson
2003 - 3 November - Matthew Miller by Nick Stimson & Nick Discombe (Northcott Community Company)
2003 - 11 December - Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood by John Crocker
2004 - 5 February - Private Lives by Noël Coward
2004 - 19 March - The Mentalists by Richard Bean
2004 - 10 April - Around the World in Eighty Days by Phil Willmott (Northcott Young Company)
2004 - 9 June - Days of Hope by Renata Allen & Howard Goodall (Northcott Community Company)
2004 - 14 July - As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Gardens)
2004 - 11 August - The Castle of Perseverance (Northcott Young Company)
2004 - 26 August - Charleys Aunt by Brandon Thomas
2004 - 30 September - Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones
2004 - 28 October - Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel
2004 - 6 November - Tobias and the Angel by Jonathan Dove & David Lan
2004 - 9 December - Jack and the Beanstalk by John Crocker
2005 - 26 March - Godspell by Stephen Schwartz (Northcott Young Company)
2005 - 29 April - Harry in the Moonlight by Alex Shearer
2005 - 3 June - The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, trans. Adrian Mitchell (Northcott Community Company)
2005 - 13 July - The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare in the Gardens)
2005 - 11 August - Animal Farm by George Orwell, adapted by Peter Hall (Northcott Young Company)
2005 - 25 August - Hysteria by Terry Johnson
2005 - 30 September - The Ladykillers by Giles Croft
2005 - 2 November - Fiddler on the Roof (Northcott Community Company)
2005 - 11 December - The Live Nativity (Northcott Community Gospel Choir)
2005 - 15 December - Dick Whittington by John Crocker
2006 - 23 March - Joking Apart by Alan Ayckbourn
2006 - 15 April - The Boyfriend (Northcott Young Company)
2006 - 17 June - An Evening of Inspirational Music (Northcott Community Company)
2006 - 12 July - Twelfth Night (Shakespeare in the Gardens)
2006 - 17 August - The Curse of the Werewolf by Ken Hill & Ian Armitt (Northcott Community Company in the Gardens)
2006 - 13 December - Aladdin by Ben Crocker
2007 - 20 January - Theatre Closed for Refurbishment (The Next Stage Appeal)
2007 - 7 June - Pen and Trough (Matford Livestock Centre)
2007 - 13 July - Macbeth (Rougemont Gardens)
2007 - 17 August - Cider with Rosie (Northcott Community Company in the Gardens)
2007 - 12 December - Cinderella (Theatre reopens after major refurbishment)
2008 - 15 February - The Notebook of Trigorin by Tennessee Williams
2008 - 12 April - Goodnight Mr Tom by Michelle Magorian (Northcott Young Company)