Performing plays of merit since 1947.

Peterborough Mask Theatre have been delighting audiences in and around the city of Peterborough for over 75 years. We have performed outdoors, in theatres and in a few more unusual venues.

We put on two or three productions a year, ranging from tense contemporary dramas to classic farcical comedies and everything in between.

A Peterborough Mask show is a guaranteed great night out!

Past Productions

Our company’s history includes over 150 productions…

  • 1947 Mr Bolfry | James Bridie

    1948 A Phoenix Too Frequent | Christopher Fry

    1948 The Jubilee | Anton Chekhov

    1949 Arms And The Man | George Bernard Shaw

    1949 Lady Precious Stream | S. I. Hsiung

  • 1950 Dear Brutus | James Barrie

    1950 Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen

    1951 The Lady's Not For Burning | Christopher Fry

    1951 The Imaginary Invalid | Moliere

    1952 Our Town | Thornton Wilder

    1952 The Rivals | Richard Brinsley Sheridan

    1953 Amphitryon 38 | Jean Giraudoux

    1953 The Playboy Of The Western World | J.M. Singe

    1954 Granite | Clemence Dane

    1955 Ring Around The Moon | Jean Anouilh

    1955 The Love Of Four Colonels | Peter Ustinov

    1956 Othello | William Shakespeare

    1956 East Lynne | Mrs Henry Wood

    1957 The School For Scandal | Richard Brinsley Sheridan

    1958 The Cocktail Party | T. S. Eliot

    1959 I Am A Camera | John Van Druten

    1959 Heartbreak House | George Bernard Shaw

  • 1960 The Crucible | Arthur Miller

    1961 The Young Idea | Noel Coward

    1961 The Flies | Jean - Paul Sartre

    1962 Henry IV | Luigi Pirandello

    1962 Romanoff And Juliet | Peter Ustinov

    1963 The Merry Wives Of Windsor | William Shakespeare

    1963 Waltz Of The Toreadors | Jean Anouilh

    1964 Venus Observed | Christopher Fry

    1965 Plays For England | John Osborne

    1965 The Noble Spaniard | Somerset Maugham

    1965 The Miser | Moliere

    1966 A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams

    1966 The Way Of The World | William Congreve

    1967 The Queen And The Rebels | Ugo Betti

    1967 After The Rain | John Bowen

    1968 The Master Builder | Henrik Ibsen

    1968 The Alchemist | Ben Johnson

    1969 A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg | Peter Nicholls

  • 1970 The Killing Of Sister George | Frank Marcus

    1970 Hobson's Choice | Harold Brighouse

    1970 The Hostage | Brendan Behan

    1971 Rattle Of A Simple Man | Charles Dyer

    1971 Lysistrata | Aristophanes

    1971 Masks | Leigh Odlin

    1972 Lady Windermere's Fan | Oscar Wilde

    1972 The Hostage | Brendan Behan

    1973 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard

    1973 A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen

    1974 London Assurance | D Bouciclault

    1975 The Three Sisters | Anton Chekhov

    1975 Under Milk Wood | Dylan Thomas

    1975 Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf | Edward Albee

    1976 Close The Coalhouse Door | Alan Plater

    1976 The Importance Of Being Ernest | Oscar Wilde

    1977 The Devil's Disciple | George Bernard Shaw

    1978 When We Are Married | J. B. Priestley

    1979 The Borage Pigeon Affair | James Saunders

    1979 The Birthday Party | Harold Pinter

  • 1980 Julius Caesar | Wlliam Shakespeare

    1980 Loot | Joe Orton

    1981 Table Manners | Alan Ayckbourn

    1981 Mother Courage And Her Children | Berthold Brecht

    1982 The Crucible | Arthur Miller

    1982 The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov

    1983 God And Death | Woody Allen

    1983 The Matchmaker | Thornton Wilder

    1984 Absent Friends | Alan Ayckbourn

    1984 The Rivals | Richard Brinsley Sheridan

    1985 The Devils | John Whiting

    1985 The Long And The Short And The Tall | Willis Hall

    1986 A Flea In Her Ear | Georges Feydeau

    1986 City Sugar | Stephen Poliakoff

    1987 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | Dale Wasserman

    1988 How The Other Half Loves | Alan Ayckbourn

    1988 Amadeus | Peter Shaffer

    1989 Daisy Pulls It Off | Denise Duggan

  • 1990 Death Of A Salesman | Arthur Miller

    1990 The Real Thing | Tom Stoppard

    1991 A Chorus Of Disapproval | Alan Ayckbourn

    1991 Passion Play | Peter Nicholls

    1992 Pack Of Lies | Hugh Whitemore

    1992 Canterbury Tales | adapted by Phil Woods and Peter Bogdanov

    1993 Our Country's Good | Timberlake Wertenbaker

    1993 An Ideal Husband | Oscar Wilde

    1994 Season's Greetings | Alan Ayckbourn

    1995 An Inspector Calls | J. B. Priestley

    1995 Hay Fever | Noel Coward

    1995 Top Girls | Caryl Churchill

    1995 Three More Sleepless Nights | Caryl Churchill

    1996 The Madness Of George III | Alan Bennett

    1997 An Absolute Turkey | Georges Feydeau

    1997 Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Christopher Hampton

    1997 You Never Can Tell | George Bernard Shaw

    1997 Noises Off | Michael Frayn

    1998 Macbeth | William Shakespeare

    1999 August | Julian Mitchell

    1999 Wildest Dreams | Alan Ayckbourn

  • 2000 Gasping | Ben Elton

    2000 Communicating Doors | Alan Ayckbourn

    2001 Animal Farm | George Orwell, Adaptation by Peter Hall

    2001 Blue Remembered Hills | Dennis Potter

    2002 Our Country's Good | Timberlake Wertenbaker

    2002 Comic Potential | Alan Ayckbourn

    2003 A Midsummer Nights Dream | William Shakespeare

    2003 California Suite | Neil Simon

    2004 RolePlay | Alan Ayckborn

    2004 Two Gentlemen Of Verona | William Shakespeare

    2004 Under Milk Wood | Dylan Thomas

    2005 Dancing at Lughnasa | Brian Friel

    2005 The Comedy Of Errors | William Shakespeare

    2006 Dracula | Hamilton Deane

    2007 Much Ado about Nothing | William Shakespeare

    2008 The Country Girl | Clifford Odets

    2008 A Midsummer Nights Dream | William Shakespeare

    2008 Great Expectations | Charles Dickens

    2009 La Musica | Marguerite Duras

    2009 The Lesson | Eugène Ionesco

    2009 The Merry Wives Of Windsor | William Shakespeare

    2009 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Frank L. Baum adapted by V.Glasgow Koste

  • 2010 Black Comedy | Peter Shaffer

    2010 As You Like It | William Shakespeare

    2011 The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespeare

    2012 Calendar Girls | Tim Firth

    2012 The Tempest | William Shakespeare

    2012 The Birthday Party | Harold Pinter

    2013 Whipping It Up | Steve Thompson

    2013 The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare

    2013 The Crucible | Arthur Miller

    2014 Shakesfear | Adapted by Carolyn English

    2014 Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare

    2014 Dogg's Hamlet | Tom Stoppard

    2014 Cahoot's Macbeth | Tom Stoppard

    2015 One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest | Dale Wasserman

    2015 The Jeremy Kyle Show does Shakespeare | Summer Moeed & Emma Goldberg

    2015 King Lear | William Shakespeare

    2015 Whose Life is it Anyway? | Brian Clark

    2016 Jerusalem | Jez Butterworth

    2016 Much Ado About Nothing | William Shakespeare

    2016 Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw

    2017 Macbeth | William Shakespeare

    2017 Pillowman | Martin McDonagh

    2017 Blackbird | David Harrower

    2017 The Final Act of Henry Gladstone | Matthew Clift

    2018 Dunsinane | David Greig

    2018 The Importance Of Being Ernest | Oscar Wilde

    2018 A Comedy of Errors | William Shakespeare

    2018 Edith in the Dark | Philip Meeks

    2018 Tales from the Porter’s Lodge | WW Jacobs/Gerald P Murphy, Edgar Allen Poe, Matthew Clift, Tim Bold

    2019 The Lady in the Van | Alan Bennett

    2019 A Midsummer Nights Dream | William Shakespeare

    2019 One Man Two Guvnors | Richard Bean

  • 2020 Cubed Festival:

    • Contractions | Mike Bartlett

    • Constellations | Nick Payne

    • Desperate Men | Enda Walsh

    • Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons | Sam Steiner

    • Sitting Here | Di Fox

    • Ramona Tells Jim | Sophie Wu

    2020 - 2021 Covid Pandemic : Zoom Play Readings, Monologues, Socials, etc.

    2021 Frankenstein | Nick Dear

    2022 Cubed (as Cubed 2020 plus...)

    • How to Date a Feminist | Samantha Ellis

    2022 Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare

    2022 Treasure Island | Bryony Lavery

    2023 Nora: A Doll's House | Stef Smith

    2023 Dr Faustus | Christopher Marlowe

    2024 Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare

    2024 A Couple o’ Cowards:

    • Private Lives | Noel Coward

    • Present Laughter | Noel Coward