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Spring Productions
We work with some of the UK’s best talent to create distinctive, beautifully-staged productions. For our most recent Spring production, we staged A Tryal Of Witches (2025) by Tallulah Brown – a story of suspicion, misogyny and women all charged by our town and county’s dark history of ‘witchcraft’. We developed the play alongside Tallulah Brown over the course of two years, with the help of National Theatre’s Generate programme, and our fantastic cast performed for two weeks to sold-out audiences in Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds.
★★★★ – The Guardian
In 2024, we co-produced Richard, My Richard (2024) by leading historical fiction author Philippa Gregory with Shakespeare North Playhouse. This was Philippa’s first play centering around Richard the Third’s monumental discovery in a Leicester Car park and a re-imagining of his life, all based on heavily researched history. To stage this world-premiere production, Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds was transformed ‘into the round’ for the first time in 14 years.
★★★ – The Stage
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds’ past Spring productions also include Home, I’m Darling (2022) by Laura Wade and The Children (2023) by Lucy Kirkwood.
With 20% of all casting drawn from our region, we are proud to support talent from Suffolk and East Anglia, ensuring that we support our regional arts ecology. Theatre Royal plays a vital role in supporting freelance artists to live and work in Suffolk and the local area.
Our Spring production is available to tour each year. If you are interested in bringing a TRBSE production to your venue, please get in touch with Zoe Fox at [email protected].
A Tryal Of Witches (2025)
Richard, My Richard (2024)
The Children (2023)
Home, I’m Darling (2022)
Community Productions
Our annual community productions (Goodnight Mister Tom (2018), Pride and Prejudice (2019), Holes (2021), The Secret Garden (2022), The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2023) and Dorothy, Back In Oz (2024)), provide unique opportunities for local young people and community members to perform alongside professional actors in high-quality productions.
This summer, our Creative Learning team are producing Sword In The Stone, written by Eilish Mullane, produced by Emma Thorpe and directed by David Whitney. The cast is made up of local young people aged 11-18 who auditioned earlier in 2025 to be part of the production and Summer School in which they’ll play a part in the play, learn about theatre techniques, rehearse, develop their skills and meet new people.
Our in-house pantomime is legendary, attracting 25,000 audiences each year and delighting generations of theatergoers.
Dorothy, Back In Oz (2024)