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5 unusual facts about Nottingham Playhouse


Deborah Norton

She has taken part in productions of Six Degrees of Separation, Thérèse Raquin, The School for Scandal, Hotel Paradiso, and others in locations as diverse as the Royal Court, Bristol Old Vic, the Nottingham Playhouse, the National Theatre and others.

Elliot Balchin

In 2002, the actor secured a stage role in Ethel and Ernest at the Nottingham Playhouse.

James Hooton

Our Style Is Legendary is set for a second run at the Nottingham Playhouse in May 2012, sponsored by LeftLion and co-funded by Arts Council England.

Steensen Varming

Steensen Varming The UK begins work on the Nottingham Playhouse, the first new theatre to be built in England in 200 years.

Trudi Wilkes

She grew up doing youth theatre in Nottingam (Acorn/NYT) before landing an Equity contract at the Nottingham Playhouse.


Michael Eaton

Charlie Peace: his amazing life and astounding legend premiered at Nottingham Playhouse in 2013 and transferred to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry.

Sandi Toksvig

In 1993 Toksvig wrote a musical, Big Night Out at the Little Sands Picture Palace, for Nottingham Playhouse, co-starring with Anita Dobson and Una Stubbs.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

It was adapted by Sillitoe into a 1960 film starring Albert Finney, directed by Karel Reisz, and in 1964 was adapted by David Brett as a play for the Nottingham Playhouse, with Ian McKellen playing one of his first leading roles.


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Alan Dapre

His play 'Comeback' was staged at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1987 with performances by Philip Middlemiss and William Ivory.

Matthew Spangler

Matthew Spangler's plays have been produced by the San Jose Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cleveland Play House, San Diego Repertory Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Citadel Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse (staged reading), the Nottingham Playhouse, Liverpool Playhouse, Brighton Festival, the National Steinbeck Center, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Avignon Theatre Festival, in addition to other theatres and festivals.

Sydney Sturgess

She starred as the Countess of Brocklehurst in the Shaw Festival's production of The Admirable Crighton, appeared in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg at the Manitoba Theatre Center, and played "Mrs. Higgins" in another run of Shaw's Pygmalion at the Nottingham Playhouse in England.