Past productions & reviews

The list of past productions below is not yet complete, but the history of the society does go back to 1943!

The first linked review of each show is the official NODA review/report.

2025

• Godspell (alternative review: EastMidlandsTheatre)
• Dracula: the Bloody Truth (alternative review: EastMidlandsTheatre)

2024

A very special year in which we produced five shows!

• Elf the Musical (alternative review: EastMidlandsTheatre)
• Rewired (alternative review: EastMidlandsTheatre)
• The Girl on the Train (alternative review: EastMidlandsTheatre)
• Bad Girls (alternative review: EastMidlandsTheatre)
• The Hound of the Baskervilles (alternative review: EastMidlandsTheatre)

2023

• Little Women (alternative review: East Midlands Theatre)
• Evita (alternative review: East Midlands Theatre)
• Stop! The Play (alternative review: East Midlands Theatre)
• A Man of No Importance (alternative review: East Midlands Theatre)

2022

• Nativity! The Musical (alternative review: East Midlands Theatre)
• The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband
• The 39 Steps (alternative review: East Midlands Theatre)
• The Last Five Years (alternative review: East Midlands Theatre)

2021

Our ‘recovery year’ which was also affected by the pandemic.

• Men of the World
• Duets
• Once Upon a Christmas Song

2020 – the year of the COVID-19 pandemic

This year was tough for us, as it was for the entire world, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Some productions were cancelled entirely, such as Little Shop of Horrors, others returned in later years, such The 39 Steps.

• Daisy Pulls It Off

2019

• The Railway Children
• Entertaining Angels
• Wait Until Dark

2018

• Avenue Q
• The Crucible
• Spamalot / alternative review
• The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society production of Macbeth.

2017

• Phantom of the Opera: Amateur Youth Production
• Cheshire Cats
• Cloud: a new musical
• The Ladykillers

2016

• Sleeping Beauty
• Forbidden Broadway
• Romeo & Juliet
• Coram Boy
• Silly Cow
• My Boy Jack

2015

• Abigail’s Party
• Merrily We Roll Along
• Gasping
• Parade

2014

• On Golden Pond
• Camelot
• Macbeth
• Miss Saigon – School Edition

2013

• The History Boys
• Gypsy
• Glorious
• Company

2012

• David Copperfield
• I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
• Cash on Delivery
• West Side Story

2011

• Ladies’ Day
• The Threepenny Opera
• Dead Guilty
• Half a Sixpence

2010

• Play On
• Man of La Mancha
• Round and Round the Garden
• Les Miserables – School Edition

Our history goes back to 1943 – we haven’t quite got to those yet!