Welcome to Derby Theatre’s summer season. This season, we mark Shakespeare 400 – four hundred years since our greatest playwright died on 23 April 1616. Not only do we have a double bill of Hamlet and All’s Well That Ends Well from Bristol’s brilliant Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, but we also welcome the hugely exciting Spymonkey, with their production The Complete Deaths – all 75 deaths from Shakespeare’s plays brought to the stage with great skill and humour.
Derby Theatre’s festival DEparture Lounge will be back in July with all the best shows before
they head to Edinburgh. Take a front row seat as the buzz of Festival comes to Derby.
Looking forward, our big production for the autumn will be Stephen Sondheim’s smash-hit
musical Sweeney Todd, in a co-production with Mercury Theatre Colchester. Set in Victorian
London, this musical thriller is packed with theatricality and high drama, and promises a great
night out at the theatre.
