Recent Drama Productions

Summer 2012
A Soldier and a Maker (by Iain Burnside) dir. Iain Burnside
Lysistrata (by Aristophanes) dir. Owen Horsley
Chaplin (musical) (music by Roger Anderson, book by Ernest Kinoy, lyrics by Lee Goldsmith) dir. Martin Connor

Spring 2012
Les Liaisons Dangereuses (a play by Christopher Hampton) dir. Nick Bagnall
Jenufa (adapted from the play by Gabriela Preissova) dir. Sue Lefton
The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Part One) (by David Edgar adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens) dir. Joseph Blatchley  

Autumn 2011
The Women (by Clare Boothe Luce) dir. Wyn Jones
Aces & Jacks (short plays by David Mamet) dir. Nadia Fall
...think only this of me... (a devised collaboration by Guildhall School actors and musicians) dir. Christian Burgess 

Summer 2011 
Kiss Me Kate (musical) (music & lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Sam & Bella Spewak) dir. Martin Connor 
Richard III (William Shakespeare) dir. Patsy Rodenburg 

Spring 2011 
The House of Atreus (adapted by Paul O’Mahony and Richard Twyman) dir. Richard Twyman 
The Blue Room (freely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler by David Hare) dir. Tom Daley 
Dear Brutus (Sir James Barrie) dir. Wyn Jones 

Autumn 2010 
Badenheim 1939 (adapted by Arnold Wesker from the novel by Aharon Appelfeld) dir. Christian Burgess 
DNA (Dennis Kelly) dir. Owen Lewis 
Festen (by David Eldridge after the DOGME film by Thomas Vinterberg, Mogens Rukov and Bohr Hansen) dir. Joseph Blatchley 

Summer 2010
Curtains (musical) (music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, book by Rupert Holmes, original book and concept by Peter Stone) dir. Martin Connor
Summerfolk (Maxim Gorky/Nick Dear) dir. Owen Lewis 

Spring 2010
Tonight at 8.30 (Noel Coward) dir. Wyn Jones
When Five Years Pass (Federico Garcia Lorca) dir. Roberto Romei
Six Characters Looking for an Author (Luigi Pirandello/David Harrower) dir. Joseph Blatchley 

Autumn 2009
A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare) dir. Douglas Rintoul
Tipping the Velvet (by Amanda Whittington based on the novel by Sarah Waters) dir. Katharine Rogers
Don Juan in Soho (by Patrick Marber, after Moli re) dir. Christian Burgess

Summer 2009
The Man Who (P Brook/MH Estienne) dir. Owen Lewis
Damn Yankees (musical) (Adler/Ross/Abbott/Wallop) dir. Martin Connor

Spring 2009
Unfinished Piece For Mechanical Piano (A Adabashian/N Mikhalkov) dir. Jo Blatchley
Hard Times (Dickens/S Jeffreys) dir. Wyn Jones
Two Shakespearean Actors (R Nelson) dir. Douglas Rintoul

Autumn 2008
Stanley (Pem Gems) dir. Christian Burgess
Lord Of The Flies (adapted by Nigel Williams/novel by William Golding) dir. Kath Rogers 
Julius Caesar dir Richard Twyman 

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) dir. Martin Connor
The Real Inspector Hound (Tom Stoppard) and Black Comedy (Peter Shaffer) dir. Doug Rintoul and Kenny Ireland

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

Autumn 2006
Tales from Ovid (Ted Hughes) dir. Christian Burgess
The Tempest and Macbeth (William Shakespeare) dir. Patsy Rodenburg and Brigid Larmour
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

Recent Opera Productions

2011-2012
Nicolai Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Britten A Midsummer Night's Dream
Rorem Our Town 

2010–2011
De Almeida Spinalba 
Poulenc Dialogues des Carmélites 
Donizetti Rita and Tchaikovsky Iolanta 

2009-2010
Donizetti L'assedio di Calais
Massenet Chérubin
Britten Albert Herring

2008-2009
Gluck La rencontre imprévue
Sallinen The King Goes Forth To France
Martinu The Marriage 
Rossini La cambiale di matrimonio

2007-2008
Mozart Die Zauberflöte
Offenbach La vie parisienne
Gounod La Colombe
Rossini L'Occasione fa il Ladro 

2006-2007
Hindemith The Long Christmas Dinner
Berkeley A Dinner Engagement
Mozart Le nozze di Figaro
Strauss Capriccio

2005-2006
Mozart La finta semplice
Verdi Falstaff
Puccini Gianni Schicchi and Il Tabarro

2004-2005
Thomas Mignon
Ravel L'heure espagnole
Poulenc Les mamelles de Tirésias
Britten The Turn of the Screw - Kyiv Festival
Jonathan Dove The Little Green Swallow

2003-2004
Martinu Comedy on the Bridge
Berlioz Béatrice et Bénédict
Mozart Le nozze di Figaro
Britten The Rape of Lucretia