Production and touring

As well as playing host to many of the country's leading performers and companies, the Theatre Royal also produces and tours its own productions to theatres across the UK.

In recent years the Theatre has produced and/or toured three main productions each year.

Scripts for Current Auditions

Please keep an eye on this page for details of upcoming scripts for auditions.

Current Auditions:

The Poor Soldier

London Merchant

Theatre Royal Rural Tour

A small-scale (2 or 3 hander) production touring to village halls and small venues within the Theatre's catchment area. Recent productions have included:

May 2009 - Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
May 2008 - Art by Yasmina Reza
May 2007 - A Night at the Theatre
May 2006 - Intimate Exchanges by Alan Ayckbourn
May 2005 - Talking Heads by Alan Bennett

National middle-scale tour

Usually taking place during the Autumn, a classic piece of drama has been produced in-house, played in Bury St Edmunds and then toured to middle-scale theatres across the UK. Recent productions have included:

Spring 2010 - Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee, adapted by Daniel O'Brien, directed by Colin Blumenau

Autumn 2005 - Sherlock Holmes: The Athenaeum Ghoul by Carl Miller, directed by Colin Blumenau

Autumn 2004 - The Tempest by William Shakespeare, directed by Colin Blumenau

Autumn 2003 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennesee Williams, directed by Colin Blumenau

Christmas pantomime

In recent years, the Theatre's annual Christmas production has been produced in-house. During the restoration period, the pantomime was transferred to a spectacular Big Top setting in Nowton Park in Bury St Edmunds. Recent productions have included:

Christmas 2009: Jack and the Beanstalk

Christmas 2008: Puss in Boots

Christmas 2007 - Cinderella

Christmas 2006 - Aladdin

Christmas 2005 - Robinson Crusoe

Christmas 2004 - Beauty and the Beast

Other productions and collaborations

In addition to the above, the Theatre has been highly successful in forging new creative partnerships. In October 2007 the Theatre played host to a production of Henry Purcell's semi-opera King Arthur, the third in a series of collaborations with the Goethe Theater in Bad Lauchstädt, Germany. Other co-production partners in recent years have included the Theatre Royal in Richmond, North Yorkshire, the Belgrade Theatre Coventry and the Northcott Theatre Exeter.