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THE 1940s
| 1 | Oct 1941 | Three One-Act Plays: A Night Of The Trojan War, The Nightingale, Shall We Join The Ladies? | Various |
| 2 | Nov 1941 | Pygmalion | Bernard Shaw |
| 3 | Dec 1941 | Four Short Plays | Various |
| 4 | Jan 1942 | I Have Been Here Before | Priestley |
| 5 | Mar 1942 | Comedy Of Errors | Shakespeare |
| 6 | May 1942 | Windows | Galsworthy |
| 7 | Oct 1942 | The Man With A Load Of Mischief | Dukes |
| 8 | Dec 1942 | Make Believe | Milne |
| 9 | Jan 1943 | To See Ourselves | Delafield |
| 10 | Mar 1943 | Granite | Dane |
| 11 | May 1943 | Merry Wives Of Windsor | Shakespeare |
| 12 | Sep 1943 | The Importance Of Being Earnest | Wilde |
| 13 | Nov 1943 | Tobias And The Angel | Bridie |
| 14 | Dec 1943 | Lady Precious Stream | Hsiang |
| 15 | Feb 1944 | Night Must Fall | Williams |
| 16 | Mar 1944 | Midsummer Night's Dream | Shakespeare |
| 17 | Jun 1944 | Devil's Disciple | Bernard Shaw |
| 18 | Sep 1944 | A Hundred Years Old | Quintero |
| 19 | Nov 1944 | The Master Builder | Ibsen |
| 20 | Dec 1944 | Two Plays And A Pantomime | Various |
| 21 | Feb 1945 | Candida | Bernard Shaw |
| 22 | May 1945 | Hay Fever | Coward |
| 23 | Sep 1945 | The Rivals | Sheridan |
| 24 | Nov 1945 | Hedda Gabler | Ibsen |
| 25 | Dec 1945 | The Ivory Door | Milne |
| 26 | Feb 1946 | Jacob's Ladder | Housman |
| 27 | Apr 1946 | Ladies In Retirement | Percy & Denham |
| 28 | Oct 1946 | Uncle Vanya | Chekhov |
| 29 | Dec 1946 | The Skin Game | Galsworthy |
| 30 | Jan 1947 | Outward Bound | Vane |
| 31 | Mar 1947 | As You Like It | Shakespeare |
| 32 | Jun 1947 | Quiet Weekend | McCracken |
| 33 | Oct 1947 | Emma | Austen (adapted) |
| 34 | Dec 1947 | Christ's Comet | Hassell |
| 35 | Feb 1948 | Gaslight | Hamilton |
| 36 | Mar 1948 | The Knight Of The Burning Pestle | Beaumont & Fletcher |
| 37 | May 1948 | The Government Inspector | Gogol |
| 38 | Oct 1948 | Fresh Fields | Novello |
| 39 | Nov/Dec 1948 | Barrets Of Wimpole Street | Besier |
| 40 | Jan 1949 | Murder In The Cathedral | Eliot |
| 41 | Feb 1949 | The Cradle Song | Sierra |
| 42 | Mar 1949 | The Corn is Green | Williams |
| 43 | Apr 1949 | The Apple Cart | Bernard Shaw |
| 44 | Oct 1949 | French Without Tears | Rattigan |
| 45 | Nov/Dec 1949 | Dear Brutus | Barrie |
THE 1950s
| 46 | Feb 1950 | Pride And Prejudice | Austen (adapted) |
| 47 | Mar 1950 | Uncle Harry | Job |
| 48 | May 1950 | Much Ado About Nothing | Shakespeare |
| 49 | Oct 1950 | Dangerous Corner | Priestley |
| 50 | Dec 1950 | The Miser | Moliere |
| 51 | Jan/Feb 1951 | The Romantic Young Lady | Sierra |
| 52 | Mar 1951 | Mary Of Magdala | Milton |
| 53 | May 1951 | Juno And The Paycock | OCasey |
| 54 | Jul 1951 | One Wild Oat | Sylvaine |
| 55 | Oct 1951 | On Approval | Lonsdale |
| 56 | Nov 1951 | Macbeth | Shakespeare |
| 57 | Feb 1952 | Bonaventure | Hastings |
| 58 | Mar 1952 | Noah | Obey |
| 59 | May 1952 | Way Of The World | Congreve |
| 60 | Jun 1952 | Little Lambs Eat Ivy | Langley |
| 61 | Oct 1952 | Who Goes There | Dighton |
| 62 | Dec 1952 | Thunder Rock | Ardrey |
| 63 | Feb 1953 | Arms And The Man | Bernard Shaw |
| 64 | Mar 1953 | The Gioconda Smile | Huxley |
| 65 | May 1953 | The Women Have Their Way | Quintero |
| 66 | Jul 1953 | Midsummer Night's Dream | Shakespeare |
| 67 | Oct 1953 | Present Laughter | Coward |
| 68 | Dec 1953 | Sheppey | Somerset Maugham |
| 69 | Feb 1954 | School For Scandal | Sheridan |
| 70 | Mar 1954 | Lady Windermere's Fan | Wilde |
| 71 | May 1954 | You Cant Take It With You | Kaufmann & Hart |
| 72 | Oct 1954 | Playbill | Rattigan |
| 73 | Dec 1954 | Waters Of The Moon | Hunter |
| 74 | Jan 1955 | The Happy Marriage | Clements |
| 75 | Mar 1955 | The White Sheep Of The Family | du G. Peach |
| 76 | May 1955 | The Lady's Not For Burning | Fry |
| 77 | Oct 1955 | She Stoops to Conquer | Goldsmith |
| 78 | Nov/Dec 1955 | The Heiress | Goetz |
| 79 | Jan/Feb 1956 | Birthday Honours | Jones |
| 80 | Mar 1956 | Jonah 3 | Bridie |
| 81 | May 1956 | Waiting For Gillian | Millar |
| 82 | Jul 1956 | Toad Of Toad Hall | Milne |
| 83 | Oct 1956 | As Long As They're Happy | Sylvaine |
| 84 | Nov/Dec 1956 | Anastasia | Maurette |
| 85 | Jan/Feb 1957 | Dial M For Murder | Knott |
| 86 | Mar 1957 | Time Remembered | Anouilh |
| 87 | May 1957 | Captain Carvallo | Cannon |
| 88 | Aug 1957 | Teahouse Of The August Moon | Sneider |
| 89 | Oct 1957 | Dear Charles | Melville |
| 90 | Nov 1957 | A Question Of Fact | Brown |
| 91 | Jan 1958 | The Queen And The Rebels | Betti |
| 92 | Mar 1958 | A Doll's House | Ibsen |
| 93 | Apr/May 1958 | The Alchemist | Jonson |
| 94 | Oct 1958 | The Importance Of Being Earnest | Wilde |
| 95 | Dec 1958 | The Rainmaker | Nash |
| 96 | Jan 1959 | A Man About The House | Young |
| 97 | Mar 1959 | Mr Kettle And Mrs Moon | Priestley |
| 98 | May 1959 | Othello | Shakespeare |
| 99 | Aug 1959 | Doctor In The House | Willis |
| 100 | Sep/Oct 1959 | Charley's Aunt | Thomas |
| 101 | Nov/Dec 1959 | The Diary Of Anne Frank | Goodrich & Hackett |
THE 1960s
| 102 | Jan 1960 | A Likely Tale | Savory |
| 103 | Mar 1960 | School For Wives | Moliere |
| 104 | May 1960 | Speed The Plough | du g. Peach |
| 105 | Oct 1960 | My Three Angels | Spewack |
| 106 | Dec 1960 | Flowering Cherry | Bolt |
| 107 | Jan/Feb 1961 | Breath Of Spring | Coke |
| 108 | Mar 1961 | The Chalk Garden | Bagnold |
| 109 | May 1961 | Not In The Book | Watkyn |
| 110 | Oct 1961 | Escapade | McDougall |
| 111 | Dec 1961 | The Shadow Of Doubt | King |
| 112 | Jan/Feb 1962 | All For Mary | Bannerman & Brooke |
| 113 | Mar 1962 | The Doctors Dilemma | Bernard Shaw |
| 114 | May 1962 | Tartuffe | Moliere |
| 115 | Oct 1962 | Dinner With The Family | Anouilh |
| 116 | Dec 1962 | The Aspern Papers | Redgrave |
| 117 | Jan/Feb 1963 | A Clean Kill | Gilbert |
| 118 | Mar 1963 | Farewell, Farewell Eugene | Vari |
| 119 | May 1963 | The Far Off Hills | Robinson |
| 120 | Jul 1963 | HMS Pinafore | Gilbert & Sullivan |
| 121 | Oct 1963 | The Irregular Verb to Love | Williams |
| 122 | Dec 1963 | The Geese Are Getting Fat | Watkin |
| 123 | Jan/Feb 1964 | Mornings At Seven | Osborn |
| 124 | Mar 1964 | A Month In The Country | Turgenev |
| 125 | May 1964 | Celebration | Waterhouse & Hall |
| 126 | Oct 1964 | The Sound Of Murder | Fairchild |
| 127 | Nov 1964 | The Tiger And The Horse | Bolt |
| 128 | Feb 1965 | Goodnight Mrs Puffin | Lovegrove |
| 129 | Mar 1965 | Five Finger Exercise | Shaffer |
| 130 | May 1965 | Hobson's Choice | Brighouse |
| 131 | Oct 1965 | The Little Hut | Mitford |
| 132 | Nov/Dec 1965 | A Letter From The General | McLoughlin |
| 133 | Jan 1966 | Small Hotel | Frost |
| 134 | Mar 1966 | The Deep Blue Sea | Rattigan |
| 135 | May 1966 | When We Are Married | Priestley |
| 136 | Oct 1966 | Dear Delinquent | Popplewell |
| 137 | Nov/Dec 1966 | Frost at Midnight | Obey |
| 138 | Jan 1967 | Blithe Spirit | Coward |
| 139 | Mar 1967 | Epitaph for George Dillon | Osborne |
| 140 | May 1967 | The Beaux Strategem | Farquhar |
| 141 | Oct 1967 | The Hollow | Christie |
| 142 | Dec 1967 | The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Brecht |
| 143 | Feb 1968 | The Farmer's Wife | Phillpotts |
| 144 | Mar 1968 | 3 Russian Plays | Chekhov & Turgenev |
| 145 | May 1968 | Separate Tables | Rattigan |
| 146 | Oct 1968 | Haul For The Shore | McConnell |
| 147 | Nov 1968 | Roots | Wesker |
| 148 | Jan 1969 | Lord Arthur Savile's Crime | Wilde |
| 149 | Mar 1969 | The Shifting Heart | Beynon |
| 150 | May 1969 | Taming Of The Shrew | Shakespeare |
| 151 | Oct 1969 | Mr Bolfry | Bridie |
| 152 | Dec 1969 | Dont Utter A Note | Delmar |
THE 1970s
| 153 | Jan 1970 | Spring And Port Wine | Naughton |
| 154 | Mar 1970 | Ghosts | Ibsen |
| 155 | May 1970 | Maria Marten | Burton |
| 156 | Oct 1970 | Love In A Mist | Horne |
| 157 | Nov/Dec 1970 | Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll | Lawlor |
| 158 | Jan 1971 | Playboy Of The Western World | Synge |
| 159 | Mar 1971 | The Long Sunset | Sherriff |
| 160 | May 1971 | The Circle | Somerset Maugham |
| 161 | Oct 1971 | Simon And Laura | Melville |
| 162 | Nov/Dec 1971 | The Visit | Durrenmatt |
| 163 | Jan 1972 | All In Good Time | Naughton |
| 164 | Mar 1972 | Traveller Without Luggage | Anouilh |
| 165 | May 1972 | The Country Wife | Wycherley |
| 166 | Oct 1972 | Relatively Speaking | Ayckbourn |
| 167 | Dec 1972 | The Holly And The Ivy | Browne |
| 168 | Jan/Feb 1973 | Semi-Detached | Turner |
| 169 | Mar 1973 | You Never Can Tell | Bernard Shaw |
| 170 | May 1973 | Billy Liar | Waterhouse & Hall |
| 171 | Oct 1973 | Not Now Darling | Cooney |
| 172 | Dec 1973 | A Man For All Seasons | Bolt |
| 173 | Jan/Feb 1974 | An Inspector Calls | Priestley |
| 174 | Mar 1974 | Speaking Of Murder | Roose |
| 175 | May 1974 | Dry Rot | Chapman |
| 176 | Oct 1974 | How The Other Half Loves | Ayckbourn |
| 177 | Dec 1974 | Gaslight | Hamilton |
| 178 | Jan/Feb 1975 | Present Laughter | Coward |
| 179 | Mar 1975 | Look Back In Anger | Osborne |
| 180 | May 1975 | See How They Run | King |
| 181 | Oct 1975 | Three One Act Plays | Various |
| 182 | Dec 1975 | She Stoops to Conquer | Goldsmith |
| 183 | Jan 1976 | The Love Match | Melvyn |
| 184 | Mar 1976 | The Odd Couple | Simon |
| 185 | May 1976 | Midsummer Night's Dream | Shakespeare |
| 186 | Oct 1976 | Village Wooing, Black Comedy | Shaw & Shaffer |
| 187 | Dec 1976 | The Lion In Winter | Goldman |
| 188 | Jan/Feb 1977 | Say Who You Are | Waterhouse & Hall |
| 189 | Mar 1977 | Something to Hide | Sands |
| 190 | May 1977 | Sweeney Todd | Burton |
| 191 | Oct 1977 | Sailor Beware | Cary & King |
| 192 | Dec 1977 | In Celebration | Storey |
| 193 | Jan 1978 | Ladies In Retirement | Percy & Denham |
| 194 | Mar 1978 | King Lear | Shakespeare |
| 195 | May 1978 | Move Over Mrs Markham | Cooney & Chapman |
| 196 | Oct 1978 | Absurd Person Singular | Ayckbourn |
| 197 | Dec 1978 | Rape Of The Belt | Levy |
| 198 | Jan/Feb 1979 | The Ghost Train | Ridley |
| 199 | Mar 1979 | The Big Killing | Mackie |
| 200 | May 1979 | The Stirrings In Sheffield On Saturday Night | Cullen |
| 201 | Oct 1979 | Post Horn Gallop | Benfield |
| 202 | Nov 1979 | Suspect | Smith & Denham |
THE 1980s
| 203 | Jan 1980 | The Secretary Bird | Douglas Home |
| 204 | Mar 1980 | Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? | Albee |
| 205 | May 1980 | The Cure For Love | Greenwood |
| 206 | Oct 1980 | Table Manners | Ayckbourn |
| 207 | Dec 1980 | Waiting In The Wings | Coward |
| 208 | Jan 1981 | Night Must Fall | Williams |
| 209 | Mar 1981 | Barefoot In The Park | Simon |
| 210 | May 1981 | Oh! What A Lovely War | Chilton etc |
| 211 | Oct 1981 | The White Sheep Of The Family | du G. Peach |
| 212 | Dec 1981 | Flarepath | Rattigan |
| 213 | Jan 1982 | Shock | Clemens |
| 214 | Mar 1982 | The Voysey Inheritance | Granville-Barker |
| 215 | May 1982 | Fringe Benefits | Yeldham |
| 216 | Oct 1982 | Private Lives | Coward |
| 217 | Dec 1982 | The Corn is Green | Williams |
| 218 | Jan 1983 | Hans, The Witch & The Gobbin | Cullen |
| 219 | Mar 1983 | The Enquiry | Chastings |
| 220 | May 1983 | The Dame Of Sark | Douglas Home |
| 221 | Oct 1983 | Goodnight Mrs Puffin | Lovegrove |
| 222 | Jan 1984 | Blithe Spirit | Coward |
| 223 | Apr/May 1984 | Pygmalion | Bernard Shaw |
| 224 | Jun 1984 | Rookery Nook | Travers |
| 225 | Oct 1984 | Educating Rita | Russell |
| 226 | Nov 1984 | The Promise | Arbuzov |
| 227 | Feb 1985 | Habeas Corpus | Bennett |
| 228 | Apr 1985 | Rebecca | du Maurier |
| 229 | Jun 1985 | Bedroom Farce | Ayckbourn |
| 230 | Oct 1985 | When We Are Married | Priestley |
| 231 | Nov 1985 | 84 Charing Cross Road | Roose-Evans |
| 232 | Jan 1986 | Rattle Of A Simple Man | Dyer |
| 233 | Mar 1986 | The Unexpected Guest | Christie |
| 234 | Jun 1986 | Outside Edge | Harris |
| 235 | Oct 1986 | Celebration | Waterhouse & Hall |
| 236 | Nov 1986 | The Killing Of Sister George | Marcus |
| 237 | Mar 1987 | Season's Greeting | Ayckbourn |
| 238 | Apr/May 1987 | The Three Sisters | Chekhov |
| 239 | Jun 1987 | Forty Years On | Bennett |
| 240 | Oct 1987 | Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie | Allen |
| 241 | Nov 1987 | A Murder is Announced | Christie |
| 242 | Mar 1988 | Journey's End | Sherriff |
| 243 | Apr 1988 | Day In The Death Of Joe Egg | Nichols |
| 244 | Jun 1988 | Key For Two | Chapman & Freeman |
| 245 | Oct 1988 | Hay Fever | Coward |
| 246 | Nov 1988 | Pack Of Lies | Whitmore |
| 247 | Feb 1989 | Chorus Of Disapproval | Ayckbourn |
| 248 | Apr 1989 | The Chalk Garden | Bagnold |
| 249 | May 1989 | Bedful Of Foreigners | Freeman |
| 250 | Oct 1989 | Noises Off | Frayn |
| 251 | Nov 1989 | Duet For One | Kempinski |
THE 1990s
| 252 | Feb 1990 | John Gabriel Borkman | Ibsen |
| 253 | Mar 1990 | Quartermaine's Terms | Gray |
| 254 | May 1990 | Arsenic And Old Lace | Kesselring |
| 255 | Oct 1990 | Present Laughter | Coward |
| 256 | Nov/Dec 1990 | In Praise Of Love | Rattigan |
| 257 | Jan/Feb 1991 | Woman In Mind | Ayckbourn |
| 258 | Mar 1991 | Dangerous Corner | Priestley |
| 259 | May 1991 | Not Now Darling | Cooney |
| 260 | Sep/Oct 1991 | Under Milk Wood | Thomas |
| 261 | Nov 1991 | Relatively Speaking | Ayckbourn |
| 262 | Mar 1992 | Lloyd George Knew My Father | Home |
| 263 | Apr 1992 | When The Wind Blows | Briggs |
| 264 | May 1992 | Loot | Orton |
| 265 | Oct 1992 | The Restless Evil | Hastings |
| 266 | Nov 1992 | Round And Round The Garden | Ayckbourn |
| 267 | Feb 1993 | Twelfth Night | Shakespeare |
| 268 | Mar/Apr 1993 | Dangerous Obsession | Crisp |
| 269 | May 1993 | Local Affairs | Harris |
| 270 | Oct 1993 | An Evening With Gary Lineker | Smith & England |
| 271 | Nov/Dec 1993 | A Christmas Carol | Dickens & Suffon |
| 272 | Feb 1994 | The Importance Of Being Earnest | Wilde |
| 273 | Mar 1994 | On Golden Pond | Thompson |
| 274 | May 1994 | Run For Your Wife | Cooney |
| 275 | Sep/Oct 1994 | Last Tango In Whitby | Harding |
| 276 | Nov 1994 | The Shifting Heart | Beynon |
| 277 | Feb 1995 | Macbeth | Shakespeare |
| 278 | Mar/Apr 1995 | Shirley Valentine | Russell |
| 279 | May 1995 | Bouncers | Godber |
| 280 | Sep/Oct 1995 | The Pocket Dream | Brewer & Toksvig |
| 281 | Nov 1995 | A Man For All Seasons | Bolt |
| 282 | Feb 1996 | Silly Cow | Elton |
| 283 | Mar 1996 | The Kingfisher | Home |
| 284 | May 1996 | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Hampton |
| 285 | Sep/Oct 1996 | Time Of My Life | Ayckbourn |
| 286 | Nov 1996 | The Man Of Mode | Etherege |
| 287 | Jan/Feb 1997 | Death Trap | Levin |
| 288 | Mar 1997 | The Deep Blue Sea | Rattigan |
| 289 | May 1997 | One For The Road | Harding |
| 290 | Sep/Oct 1997 | The Cracked Pot | Morrison |
| 291 | Nov 1997 | Shadowlands | Nicholson |
| 292 | Feb 1998 | Our Day Out | Russell |
| 293 | Mar 1998 | The Seagull | Chekhov |
| 294 | May 1998 | Party Piece | Harris |
| 295 | Sep/Oct 1998 | Out Of Order | Cooney |
| 296 | Nov 1998 | Home at Seven | Sherriff |
| 297 | Feb 1999 | Doctor In The House | Willis |
| 298 | Mar 1999 | Double Double | Elice & Rees |
| 299 | May 1999 | Hobson's Choice | Brighouse |
| 300 | Oct 1999 | The Threepenny Opera | Brecht & Weill |
| 301 | Nov 1999 | An Inspector Calls | Priestley |
THE 2000s
THE 2010s
| 352 | Jan/Feb 2010 | The Shop At Sly Corner | Percy |
| 353 | Mar 2010 | The Anniversary | MacIlwraith |
| 354 | May 2010 | Blithe Spirit | Coward |
| 355 | Oct 2010 | The Haunting of Hill House | Lesley (from the novel by Jackson) |
| 356 | Nov 2010 | Habeas Corpus | Bennett |
| 357 | Jan/Feb 2011 | Uncle Vanya | Chekhov |
| 358 | Mar 2011 | Amy's View | Hare |
| 359 | May 2011 | Good Things | Lochhead |
| 360 | Sep/Oct 2011 | 'Allo 'Allo! | Croft and Lloyd |
| 361 | Nov 2011 | Living Together | Ayckbourn |
| 362 | Jan/Feb 2012 | Death of a Salesman | Miller |
Retford Little Theatre gratefully acknowledges financial support from Bassetlaw District Council
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