The phrase "a previous production" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a production that occurred before the current one, often in contexts related to theater, film, or other forms of media.
Example: "The director drew inspiration from a previous production that had received critical acclaim."
Alternatives: "an earlier production" or "a prior production".
(Most producers say that if George Clooney, Harrison Ford or Meryl Streep wanted to star in a show, even if a previous production had closed a year earlier, they would find investors).
Susan W. Lovell directed a previous production, at the New York International Fringe Festival last month.
A school production of Julius Caesar launched Nimmo's career as an actor, though he had played a toadstool in a previous production.
It said on Friday that it would build 10.12 million vehicles this calendar year, up 180,000 units from a previous production plan.
Thus some musicians who participated in a previous production at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles in late 2006 and early 2007 no longer possessed the requisite youth.
Friel renders Turgenev's delicate, naturalistic comedy in strong primary colours, which accords with Kent's philosophy – shown by a previous production of Chekhov's Ivanov – of playing the revered Russians in uninhibitedly emotional style.
Cashmere production records from a previous full production year could be used as co-variants during statistical analyses but this requires that potential experimental goats are managed in one flock, without variations resulting from different grazing, reproduction or other management for a year prior to an experiment.
This Danish production, new in 2003, has a magical feature that I've seen in only a few previous productions.
SAPS aid is a flat-rate payment based on land area, whereas the older direct payments system used elsewhere in the EU includes a calculation based on previous production on the land.
Mr. Herheim deconstructs the traditional sets of the company's previous production, creating a mixture of old and new with a sober twist: Mimi dies of cancer at the start, and the opera is reconfigured as Rodolfo's refusal to admit it.
Withholding behaviour is probably the major cause for the development of constipation and might be caused by the previous production of a large, hard painful stool, anal fissures, a primarily behavioural mechanism or the resistance to go to another toilet than their own [ 2].
