Productions
17 - 21 April 2012 at 7.30pm
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Sheep Street, Northampton More >
5 - 9 June
by Alan Menken & Howard Ashman
Thomas Becket School, Becket Way, Kettering Road North, Northampton More >
MASQUE THEATRE’S OPEN-AIR SUMMER SEASON
The Courtyard, Abington Park Museum, Northampton
23 - 28 July at 7.30pm
by William Shakespeare More >
30 July - 4 August at 7.30pm
by Dominic Cooke More >
ARCHIVE OF PRODUCTIONS
Travel backwards through time. Recent productions are at the top.
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2011 - 2012
Scaramouche Jones by Justin Butcher More >
Happy Days by Samuel Beckett More >
Masque Youth Theatre ‘Showcase’ More >
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie More >
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel More >
2010 - 2011
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare (An open-air production) More >
A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde More >
No Stone Unturned by Masque Youth Theatre More >
Vincent in Brixton by Nicholas Wright More >
Fur Coat and No Knickers by Mike Harding More >
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, dramatised by Rob Kendall More >
Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness More >
2009 - 2010
The Wind in the Willows dramatised by Alan Bennett (An open air production) More >
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (An open air production) More >
Dying For It by Moira Buffini More >
How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup by J.L. Carr (a MYT Production) More >
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov More >
King Lear by William Shakespeare More >
Closer by Patrick Marber More >
2008 - 2009
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (An open air production) More >
Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon More >
Hiawatha by Michael Bogdanov and Warpaint by Edward Toone (A Masque Youth Theatre production)
Betrayal by Harold Pinter More >
The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe More >
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh More >
2007 - 2008
The Venetian Twins by Carlo Goldoni (translated by Michael Feingold) (Open air) More >
Ringtime (A Masque Youth Theatre production) More >
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo More >
Oh What a Lovely War by Joan Littlewood’s Theatre Workshop More >
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton More >
2006 - 2007
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (An open air production) More >
Gulliver’s Travels by Brian Wright (A Masque Youth Theatre production)
Seeking the Child by Bob Godfrey More >
The Hired Man by Melvyn Bragg More >
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht More >
The Madness of George III by Alan Bennett More >
2005 - 2006
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
To Buy a Fat Pig (A Masque Youth Theatre production)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Dale Wasserman More >
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare More >
Reader by Ariel Dorfman More >
2004 - 2005
Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (An open air production) More >
Home and Beauty by W Somerset Maugham
The Children’s Crusade by Paul Thompson (A Masque Youth Theatre production)
My Mother Said I Never Should by C Keatley
A Christmas Carol from the story by Charles Dickens More >
2003 - 2004
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Mrs Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
Any Dream Will Do (A Masque Youth Theatre production)
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman
The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
2002 - 2003
As You Like It by William Shakespeare (An open air production) More >
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov More >
The Birds by Aristophanes (a Masque Youth Theatre production)
The Rivals by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Murder in the Cathedral by TS Eliot More >
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
2001 - 2002
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
Shoeshine (A Masque Youth Theatre production)
A View from the Bridge by Arthur Miller More >
The Nativity by Tony Harrison More >
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Jay Presson Allen More >
2000 - 2001
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (An open air production) More >
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht (A Masque Youth Theatre production)
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
Playing the Wife by Ronald Hayman
The Herbal Bed by Peter Whelan (An open air production) More >
1999 - 2000
King John by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Entertaining Mr Sloane by Joe Orton More >
Zero-Zero by Brian Wright (a Masque Youth Theatre production)
Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter More >
Season’s Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn More >
Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman
1998 - 1999
The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare
Top Girls by Caryl Churchill
The Great Angel Bazaar by Masque Youth Theatre
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
The School for Scandal by Richard B Sheridan More >
1997 - 1998
Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare
The Odd Couple by Neil Simon More >
Knock, Knock by Masque Youth Theatre
Hay Fever by Noel Coward More >
The Shakespeare Revue by Christopher Luscombe and Malcolm McKee
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams More >
1996 - 1997
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Duet for One by Tom Kempinski
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare More >
My Sister in this House by Wendy Kesselman
1995 - 1996
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (An open air production) More >
Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov More >
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
The Accrington Pals by Peter Whelan
1994 - 1995
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
A Family Affair by Alexander Ostrovsky
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Breaking the Code by Hugh Whitemore
1993 - 1994
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare (An open air production) More >
The Aspern Papers by Michael Redgrave
Map of the Heart by William Nicholson
Kennedy’s Children by Robert Patrick
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare More >
Crimes of Passion by Joe Orton
1992 - 1993
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling
Women in Mind by Alan Ayckbourn
Pack of Lies by Hugh Whitemore
The Secret Rapture by David Hare
Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh
1991 - 1992
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
The Seagull by Anton Chekhov More >
The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter More >
The Understanding by Angela Huth
Happy Families by John Godber
1990 - 1991
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Female Transport by Steve Gooch
Private Lives by Noel Coward
Macbeth by William Shakespeare More >
Who’s Life is it Anyway?
1989 - 1990
As You Like It by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Dresser by Ronald Harwood
Alphabetical Order by Michael Frayn More >
1988 - 1989
The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Once a Catholic by Mary O’Malley
A Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
The Devil’s Desciple by George Bernard Shaw
The Misanthrope by Moliere (translated by Tony Harrison)
1987 - 1988
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (An open air production) More >
The Price by Arthur Miller
Right You Are if You Think So by Luigi Pirandello
Absent Friends by Alan Ayckbourn
The House of Bernada Alba by Frederico Garcia Lorca
1986 - 1987
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Old Times by Harold Pinter More >
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare More >
When we are Married by JB Priestley
Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi by Pam Gems
1985 - 1986
Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
And a Little Loves Besides by Alan Plater
Kes by Barry Lines (adapted by Alan Stronach) More >
Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett
A Voyage Round my Father by John Mortimer
1984 - 1985
The Inhabitants by Olwyn Wymark
Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais
Educating Rita by Willy Russell More >
A Passage to India by Santha Rama Rau More >
1983 - 1984
Richard III by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Born in the Gardens by Peter Nichols
And a Nightingale Sang by CP Taylor
Masque at Christmas (compilation by various authors) More >
The Happy Haven by John Arden More >
1982 - 1983
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
The Master Builder by Henrik Ibsen
The Hostage by Brendan Behan
The Coarse Acting Show by Michael Green (Masque’s 50th Anniversary Production)
A Lily in Little India by Donald Howarth
1981 - 1982
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (An open air production) More >
The Homecoming by Harold Pinter More >
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov More >
The Children’s Hour by Lillian Helhnan
Mrs Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw
1980 - 1981
The Tempest by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Close of Play by Simon Gray
The Sea by Edward Bond
The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen
All my Sons by Arthur Miller
1979 - 1980
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (An open air production) More >
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter More >
Riders to the Sea/The Tinkers Wedding by JM Synge
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov More >
Bus Stop by William Inge
1978 - 1979
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
The School for Wives by Moliere
Bingo by Edward Bond
Night Must Fall by Emlyn Williams
Mixed Doubles by various writers More >
1977 - 1978
Othello by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Mary Mary by Jean Kerr
Candida by George Bernard Shaw
Collapse of Stout Party by Trevor Peacock
The Magistrate by Arthur Wind Pinero
1976 - 1977
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (An open air production) More >
Roots by Arnold Wesker
In Good King Charles Golden Days by George Bernard Shaw
Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall More >
? Dirty Dick
1975 - 1976
Henry V by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
The Killing of Sister George by Frank Marcus
Tango by Slavomir Mrozek
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
Angels in Love by Hugh Mills
1974 - 1975
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Getting On by Alan Bennett
I am Camera by John van Drutcn
All Over by Edward Albee
The Gazebo by Alec Coppel
1973 - 1974
King John by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
The Country Wife by William Wycherley
Forget Me Not Lane by Peter Nichols
The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley
Barefoot in the Park by Neil Simon
1972 - 1973
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
A Collier’s Friday Night by DH Lawrence
The Times by Arthur Wind Pinero
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg by Peter Nichols
Happy Family by Giles Cooper
1971 - 1972
As You Like It by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Lovers (Winners and Losers) by Brian Friel
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
The Ticket of Leave Man by Tom Taylor
The Anniversary by Bill MacIlwraith
1970 - 1971
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Meanwhile, Back at the Monastery by various writers
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov More >
Play with a Tiger by Doris Lessing
What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton
1969 - 1970
All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare (An open air production)
Hay Fever by Noel Coward
Waltz of the Toreadors by Jean Anouilh
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
A Scent of Flowers by James Saunders
For a full listing of productions from 1960 to the end of 1969
please see our 1960s history page >
For a full listing of productions from 1950 to the end of 1959
please see our 1950s history page >
For a full listing of productions from 1940 to the end of 1949
please see our 1940s history page >
For a full listing of productions from the formation of the group in 1932 until the end of 1939
please see our 1930s history page >
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