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Video - Final Act?

Scenes from Thursday, November 29, 2007 the Derby Playhouse’s final act.

Derby Playhouse defied the liquidators to stage a final performance last night - only hours after being told to close its doors for good.

At 3pm, the board of trustees took the theatre into voluntary liquidation after a last-ditch rescue package, which had seen the Playhouse’s joint artistic director, Stephen Edwards, offer £282,000 of his own cash to save the theatre, had been rejected.

But despite being told that they no longer had jobs, the entire cast, crew and staff at the Playhouse defied orders to shut up shop and staged one last, emotional performance of their Christmas show, Treasure IslandVideo Courtesy of The Derby Evening Telegraph / thisisderbyshire.co.uk