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List of our productions, 1935 to the present day ... 

2021 
As we entered 2021 theatres were still shut due to Covid-19 restrictions , but we plan to resume live activities asap.
Fantastic Mr Fox (November)

2020  
Our 85th Anniversary, yet all live performances were cancelled due to Coronavirus pandemic.
​
2019
Hansel and Gretel (March)
Johnny and the Dead (November)

2018
The Demon Headmaster (March)
​James and the Giant Peach (November)

2017
Fairy Tale Courtroom (March)
Goodnight Mister Tom (November)

2016
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (November)
Summer Showcase (Greenroom, July)
​Other events in 2016

2015 - 80th Anniversary
The Diary of Anne Frank (March) 
The Magic Scarf (November)

2014
The Witches (March)
The Railway Children (November)


2013
The Lottie Project
Pinocchio 
​Other events in 2013

2012
TIME, a Leeds Children's Theatre Showcase
Tom's Midnight Garden
Other events in 2012 

2011
mEGGa
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

2010 - 75th Anniversary
Toad of Toad Hall
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

2009
The Man in the Moon
The Magician's Nephew

2008 (more)
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
The Borrowers

2007 (more)
The Secret Garden
Murder by the Book (a Greenroom production)
The Great Santa Kidnap

2006
The Gingerbread Man
The Magic Scarf

2005 (70th Anniversary)
Peter Pan (Final curtain as the Civic Theatre closes)
The Ideal Gnome Expedition (opens The Carriageworks)

2004
Quest for the Whooperdink
The Phantom Tollbooth 

2003
Pinocchio
Rumpelstiltskin

2002
The Witches
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

2001
The See-Saw Tree 
Hansel and Gretel

2000
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Though the Looking Glass
The Beeple 

1999
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Snow Queen

1998
Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner
The Red Dragon

1997
The Selfish Shellfish
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

1996
The Gingerbread Man
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

1995 (60th Anniversary)
Toad of Toad Hall
The Man in the Moon

1994
The Railway Children
Worzel Gummidge

1993
The Scatterbrained Scarecrow of Oz
Peter Pan

1992
The Thwarting of Baron Bollingrew
Olaf and the Pink Penguin

1991
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Pinocchio

1990
Alice's adventures in Wonderland and though the Looking Glass
The Magician's Nephew [?]

1989
The Owl and the Pussycat
The Magic Scarf

1988
Beauty and the Beast
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 

1987
Rumpelstiltskin
The Ideal Gnome Expedition

1986
[?]
Worzel Gummidge

1985 (50th Anniversary Reunion)
Mowgli of the Wolf Pack
There was an old woman ... 

1984
Pinocchio
The Gingerbread Man​
​
1983 (Civic Theatre refurbishment)
Plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner
Hans, the Witch and the Gobbin







1982 
The Beeple
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

1981
Heidi
Hansel and Gretel

1980
King Patch and Mr Simpkins
Pegora the Witch​

​1979

Peter Pan
Niccollo and Niccollette

1978
The Stone Cage
Rumpelstiltskin

1977
Smugglers' Bay
Wizard of Oz

1976
Toad of Toad Hall
Where the Rainbow Ends

1975
Heidi
Pinocchio

1974
The Golden Fleece
The Tinder Box

1973
Hans, the Witch and the Gobbin
Beauty and the Beast

1972
The Stone Cage
The Prince, the Wolf and the Firebird

1971
Hansel and Gretel
John Willy and the Bee People

1970
Niccolo and Nicollette
The Wizard of Oz

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.



"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"
. 

This was drawn into the constitution in April 1937 and it remains the aim of Leeds Children's Theatre today ​

​© 2021 Leeds Children's Theatre (updated 23 January 2021)