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 Unknown Years to 1949
Treasure Island
by Roger Williams • directed by Arthur Cox
November 1949 • The Civic Theatre • Leeds Children’s Theatre
View this production’s cast, crew and archive documents.
The Shop at Sly Corner
by Edward Percy • directed by Ladley Pearson
October 1949 • The Civic Theatre
The Rose without a Thorn
by Clifford Bax • directed by Stanley Sykes
probably June 1949 • Roundhay Park and Temple Newsam
Best Man Wins
by W. L. Melton • directed by Arthur Cox
March 1949 • The Civic Theatre • Leeds Children’s Theatre
View this production’s cast, crew and archive documents.
The Druid’s Rest
by Emlyn Williams • directed by Ladley Pearson
February 1949 • The Civic Theatre
View this production’s cast, crew and archive documents.
A Christmas Fantasia
by Arthur Ridley • directed by Arthur Cox
December 1948 • The Civic Theatre • Leeds Children’s Theatre
View this production’s cast, crew and archive documents.
An Inspector Calls
by J. B. Priestley • directed by Pat Cheetham
September – October 1948 • The Civic Theatre
The Mask and The Face
by Chester Bailey Fernald • directed by Kathleen Worth
April 1948 • The Riley Smith Hall
Little Boy Blue
by Arthur Ridley, with music by Ena Morley and B. G. Fletcher
March 1948 • Y.W.C.A. Hall • Leeds Children’s Theatre
View this production’s cast, crew and archive documents.
Grand National Night
by Dorothy and Campbell Christie • directed by Stanley Sykes
February 1948 • The Civic Theatre
The Merry Wives of Windsor
by William Shakespeare • directed by Michael Honan
June 1947 • Carr Manor
Sixteen
by Aimeé and Philip Stuart • directed by Michael Honan
February – March 1947 • The Civic Theatre
