About us History Past Productions 17th-19th Century Plays 17th-19th Century Plays Explore our past productions of plays and adaptations of works written between 1600s and 1899 You are in: About us Also in this section Also in this section 21st Century Plays20th Century PlaysRestoration playsShakespeare's PlaysShakespeare's Contemporaries' PlaysMedieval PlaysClassical Plays < Back to Past Productions Boris Godunov This new adaptation of Pushkin's play Boris Godunov was written by Adrian Mitchell and directed by Michael Boyd in 2012 and 2013 Read More Candide In 2013 Mark Ravenhill responded to Voltaire's novel, Candide, in this new play directed by Lyndsey Turner Read More A Christmas Carol The smash hit of Christmas past played in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre Find out more The Fair Maid of the West A celebratory, music-filled, ensemble comedy about the life-saving powers of community, compromise and compassion. Find out more Salomé Salomé by Oscar Wilde played in the Swan Theatre in summer 2017 Find out more The School for Scandal Styled to the nines with period flair - an exuberant feast of big wigs and even bigger laughs. Find out more Tartuffe Our updated Tartuffe, set in the Pakistani-Muslim community of Sparkhill played in Stratford and Birmingham. Find out more The Red Shoes Hans Christian Andersen's dark fairy tale where a young woman's beautiful pair of red shoes takes her places she doesn't wish to go. Find out more You may also like