Leeds Children's Theatre
Producing quality drama for children of all ages since 1935
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List of our productions, 1930s to the 1960s ... 

1969
Toad of Toad Hall
Tom Sawyer's Treasure Hunt

1968
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Emil and the Detectives

1967
Taking Part (LCTh organised school drama festival)
Pinocchio

1966
Treasure Island
King Patch and Mr Simpkins

1965
The Villainy of Uriah Heep (David Copperfield)
Hansel and Gretel

1964
Cavalier's Gold
Peter Pan

1963
The Tinder Box
Rumpelstiltskin

1962
Smugglers' Bay
The Wizard of Oz

1961
Emil and the Detectives
Beauty and the Beast

1960
Tom Sawyer's Treasure Hunt
The Twelve Dancing Princesses

1959
Best Man Wins (February)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (November)

1958
Cavalier's Gold
Niccolo and Nicolette (December) 

1957
What Happened to George
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1956
Pieces of Eight
Pinocchio

1955
The Tinder Box

1954
The Joker and the Knave
Beauty and the Beast

1953
Cavalier's Gold
The Pied Piper of Hamelin

1952
Emil and the Detectives
Dick Whittington

1951
Tom Sawyer's Treasure Hunt
The Snow Queen

1950
Aladdin's Lamp
Tom Sawyer's Treasure Hunt

1949
Best Man Wins
Treasure Island

1948
Little Boy Blue
A Christmas Fantasia

1940 - 1947 
No productions due to WWII

1945
Pied Piper

1939
Little Boy Blue

1938
Sleeping Beauty

1937
Peter Starlight

1936
The Key of the Kingdom

1935
Jack and the Beanstalk

1931 - 1935
The very beginning of Leeds Children's Theatre from news articles.

Celebrating 90 years of Leeds Children's Theatre (1935-2025)
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"The aim of Leeds Children's Theatre is to produce plays suitable for children,
​the players to be either children or adults or both, as is necessary for the production"
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This was drawn into the constitution in April 1937
​and it remains the aim of Leeds Children's Theatre today 
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