Recent productions

Recent Drama Productions

Summer 2009
Damn Yankees (musical) (music & lyrics by Richard Adler & Jerry Ross, book by George Abbott & Douglass Wallop) dir. Martin Connor
The Man Who (Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne) dir. Owen Lewis

Spring 2009
Two Shakespearean Actors (Richard Nelson) dir. Douglas Rintoul
Hard Times (Charles Dickens/Stephen Jeffreys) dir. Wyn Jones
Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano (Alexandr Adabashian & Nikita Mikhalkov, based on Chekhov) dir. Joseph Blatchley

Autumn 2008
Julius Caesar (William Shakespeare) dir. Richard Twyman
Lord of the Flies (William Golding/Nigel Williams) dir. Katharine Rogers
Stanley (Pam Gems) dir. Christian Burgess

Summer 2008
Etta Jenks (Marlane Gomard Meyer) dir. Douglas Rintoul
City of Angels (musical) (Music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by David Zippel, book by Larry Gelbart) dir. Martin Connor

Spring 2008
Plenty (David Hare) dir. Tom Daley
August (Chekhov/Julian Mitchell) dir. Wyn Jones
Semi-Monde (Noël Coward) dir. Alistair McGowan

Autumn 2007
The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare) dir. Wyn Jones
The Revenger's Tragedy (Cyril Tourneur/Thomas Middleton) dir. Edward Dick
The London Cuckolds (Edward Ravenscroft in a version by Terry
Johnson) dir. Christian Burgess

Summer 2007
My Favorite Year (musical) (Book by Joseph Dougherty, music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens) dir. Martin Connor
Double-bill: The Real Inspector Hound (Tom Stoppard) dir. Douglas Rintoul and Black Comedy (Peter Shaffer) dir. Kenny Ireland

Spring 2007
Inherit the Wind (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E Lee) dir. Wyn Jones
The Workshop (Jean-Claude Grumberg, translated by Tom Kempinski)dir. Joseph Blatchley
Certain Young Men (Peter Gill) dir. Daniel Evans

Autumn 2006
Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid dir. Christian Burgess
Double-bill: Macbeth (William Shakespeare) dir. Brigid Larmour and The Tempest (William Shakespeare) dir. Patsy Rodenburg
A Chorus of Disapproval (Alan Ayckbourn) dir. Crispin Bonham Carter

Summer 2006
Joan Littlewood's musical entertainment Oh! What a Lovely War (Theatre Workshop) dir. Martin Connor
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens, adapted by Matthew Francis) dir. Katharine Rogers
The Misanthrope (Molière, in a version by Martin Crimp) dir. Edward Dick

Spring 2006
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams) dir. Joseph Blatchley
Live Like Pigs (John Arden) dir. Christian Burgess

Autumn 2005
Cinderella (John Moffat and Tudor Davies) dir. Martin Connor
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare) dir. Christopher Luscombe
The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare) dir. Wyn Jones

Summer 2005
Bye Bye Birdie (musical) dir. Martin Connor
Double Bill: The Erpingham Camp (Joe Orton) dir. Stephen Jameson and Celebration (Harold Pinter) dir. Heather Davies

Spring 2005
The Play Called Corpus Christi (Wyn Jones) dir. Wyn Jones with Wendy Allnut
Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen) dir. Peter Clough
Orestes 2.0 (Charles Mee) dir. Daniel Kramer

Autumn 2004
Troilus and Cressida (William Shakespeare) dir. Jonathan Munby
Twelve Angry Men (Reginald Rose) dir. Katherine Rogers
I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith) dir. Christian Burgess

Summer 2004
Half a Sixpence (musical) dir. Martin Connor
Fen (Caryl Churchill) dir. Daniela Peleanu
Afore Night Come (David Ruckin) dir. Joseph Blatchley

Spring 2004
An Italian Straw Hat (Eugène Labiche) dir. Christopher G Sandford
Monday After The Miracle (William Gibson) dir. Wyn Jones
Measure for Measure (William Shakespeare) dir. Janet Suzman

Autumn 2003
Ghetto (Joseph Sobol trans David Lan) dir. Christian Burgess
The Memory Of Water (Shelagh Stephenson) dir. Edward Dick
The Comedy of Errors (William Shakespeare) dir. Peter Clough

Summer 2003
Bonnie and Clyde™ The Musical dir. Martin Connor
Lark Rise (Keith Dewhurst) dir. Graham Watts

Spring 2003
Confusions (Alan Ayckbourn) dir. Christian Burgess
As You Like It (William Shakespeare) dir. Sue Lefton
Othello (William Shakespeare) dir. Wyn Jones

Autumn 2002
Barbarians (Maxim Gorky) dir. Joseph Blatchley
Too Young for Ghosts (Janis Balodis) dir. Christian Burgess
Roberto Zucco (Bernard-Marie Koltès/Martin Crimp) dir. Matthew Smith

Summer 2002
Babes in Arms (musical) dir. Martin Connor
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare) dir. Peter Clough
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare) dir. Stephen Jameson

Spring 2002
Wrestling with Jacob's Angel (short plays by American writers including Arthur Miller and August Wilson) dir. Colin Ellwood
The Play Called Corpus Christi (new version by Wyn Jones of the English Mystery Plays ) dir. Wyn Jones with Wendy Allnutt

Autumn 2001
Trelawny of the Wells (Arthur Wing Pinero) dir. Kim Grant
Speculators (Tony Marchant) dir. Joseph Blatchley
The Pool of Bethesda (Allan Cubitt) dir. John Dove

Summer 2001
Rags (musical) dir. Martin Connor
Female Transport (Steve Gooch) dir. Graham Watts
Our Country's Good (Timberlake Wertenbaker) dir. Stephen Jameson

Spring 2001
Hamlet (William Shakespeare) dir. Wyn Jones
The Winter's Tale (William Shakespeare) dir. Joseph Blatchley

Autumn 2000
Pentecost (David Edgar) dir. Peter Clough
Sisterly Feelings (Alan Ayckbourn) dir. Katharine Rogers
A Small Family Business (Alan Ayckbourn) dir. Guy Retallack