New Work at the Rsc – Key Productions Over the Last 50 Years
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NEW WORK AT THE RSC – KEY PRODUCTIONS OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS More details are available on the RSC performance database 1961 ALDWYCH The Devils - John Whiting (Later tour) 1962 ALDWYCH Playing with Fire (Double Bill with The Collection) - Strindberg (translated by Michael Meyer) / The Collection (Double Bill with Playing with Fire) - Harold Pinter A Penny for a Song - John Whiting NEW ARTS THEATRE CLUB Everything in the Garden - Giles Cooper Nil Carborandum - Henry Livings The Lower Depths - Maxim Gorky (new version Derek Marlowe) Afore Night Come - David Rudkin The Empire Builders - Boris Vian (translated by Simon Watson Taylor) Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger - Fred Watson TOUR Curtmantle - Christopher Fry 1963 ALDWYCH The Physicists Durrenmatt (translated by James Kirkup) The Representative Rolf Hochhuth (translated by Robert David McDonald) 1964 LAMDA THEATRE CLUB Theatre of Cruelty Season ALDWYCH The Rebel devised - Patrick Garland The Birthday Party - Harold Pinter (also directed by Harold Pinter) Afore Night Come - David Rudkin Expeditions One – An experimental season of short plays Victor - Roger Vitrac (translated by Lucienne Hill) Marat/Sade - Peter Weiss (adapted by Adrian Mitchell and translated by Geoffrey Skelton) Eh? - Henry Livings 1965 ALDWYCH Expeditions Two – A selection of plays on nation and Colonialism The Homecoming - Harold Pinter The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew - Robert Bolt 1966 ALDWYCH Tango - Slawomir Mrozek (translated by Nicholas Bethell and adapted by Tom Stoppard) Days in the Trees - Marguerite Duras (translated by Sonia Orwell) The Meteor Durrenmatt (translated by James Kirkup) US - Dennis Cannan Staircase - Charles Dyer Belcher’s Luck - David Mercer 1967 ALDWYCH The Peleponnesian War - Plato (adapted by John Barton) Little Murders - Jules Feiffer 1968 ALDWYCH Indians - Arthur Kopit The Latent Heterosexual - Paddy Chayefsky God Bless - Jules Feiffer 1969 ALDWYCH A Delicate Balance - Edward Albee Dutch Uncle - Simon Gray Landscape/Silence - Harold Pinter 1970 ALDWYCH Tiny Alice - Edward Albee After Haggerty - David Mercer 1971 OPEN SPACE THEATRE Gum and Goo - Howard Brenton TOUR Old Times - Harold Pinter Occupations - Trevor Griffiths THE PLACE, LONDON Subject to Fits - Robert Montgomery The Oz Trial devised - David Illingworth 1972 RST Old Times - Harold Pinter ALDWYCH All Over - Edward Albee 1973 ALDWYCH Suzanna Andler - Marguerite Duras (translated by Barbara Bray) TOUR A Slight Ache/Landscape - Harold Pinter (transferred to Aldwych) STUDIO THEATRE, STRATFORD Christopher Columbus (Michael de Ghelderode translated by George Haugher) / Escurial (translated by Lionel Abel) THE PLACE Cries from Casement - David Rudkin Section Nine - Philip Magdalany A Lesson in Blood and Roses - John Wiles 1974 ALDWYCH Sherlock Holmes - William Gillette Section Nine - Philip Magdalany Duck Song - David Mercer The Bewitched - Peter Barnes Travesties - Tom Stoppard THE OTHER PLACE I Was Shakespeare’s Double - Penny Gold & John Downie Babies Grow Old - Mike Leigh Afore Night Come - David Rudkin Lear - Edward Bond TOUR The World Turned Upside Down - Dave Holman THE PLACE The Beast - Snoo Wilson 1975 ALDWYCH Jingo - Charles Wood 1976 THE OTHER PLACE Dingo - Charles Wood Destiny - David Edgar Bingo - Edward Bond THE ROUNDHOUSE The Ik adapted - Dennis Cannan and Colin Higgins ALDWYCH Zykovs - Maxim Gorky (translated by Kitty Hunter Blair and Jeremy Brookes) 1977 ALDWYCH Privates on Parade - Peter Nichols RFH Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - Tom Stoppard THE WAREHOUSE The Good Between Us - Howard Barker Factory Birds - James Robson Frozen Assets - Barrie Keefe The Bundle - Edward Bond THE OTHER PLACE The Lorenzaccio Story - Paul Thompson Queen Christina - Pam Gems Sons of Light - David Rudkin 1978 THE OTHER PLACE Captain Swing - Peter Whelan The Churchill Play - Howard Brenton Piaf - Pam Gems A Moment of Life - Denis Lipman THE WAREHOUSE A Miserable and Lonely Death - Ron Blair Look Out … Here Comes Trouble! - Mary O’Malley The Hang of the Gaol - Howard Barker The Adventures of Awful Knwaful - Peter Flannery The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs - David Edgar A&R - Pete Watkin Shout Across the River - Stephen Poliakoff ALDWYCH Cousin Vladimir - David Mercer Saratoga - Bronson Howard 1979 THE OTHER PLACE The Suicide - Nikolai Erdman THE WAREHOUSE The Innocent - Howard Davies Sore Throats - Howard Brenton Men’s Beano - Nigel Baldwin Captain Swing - Peter Whelan GULBENKIAN STUDIO Hippolytus Eurpides (translated by David Rudkin) 1980 THE OTHER PLACE The Fool - Edward Bond Hansel and Gretel - David Rudkin THE WAREHOUSE Bastard Angel - Barrie Keefe The Loud Boy’s Life - Howard Barker High Water - Nick Darke Educating Rita - Willy Russell The Suicide - Nikolai Erdman No Limits to Love - David Mercer The Irish Play - Ron Hutchinson Television Times - Peter Prince ALDWYCH The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens, adapted by David Edgar 1981 THE OTHER PLACE The Forest - Alexander Ostrovsky Hansel and Gretel - David Rudkin RST The Swan Down Gloves - Bille Brown THE WAREHOUSE Naked Robots - Jonathan Gems Outskirts - Hanif Kureishi Thirteenth Night - Howard Brenton The Accrington Pals - Peter Whelan GULBENKIAN Ball Boys - David Edgar 1982 THE OTHER PLACE Our Friends in the North - Peter Flannery Lear - Edward Bond Derek - Edward Bond Heavy Days - Peter Flannery Bond Songs - Edward Bond Astonish Me - Robin Hooper The Teacup - Lenka Janiurek THE BARBICAN Poppy - Peter Nichols 1983 THE OTHER PLACE The Time of Your Life - William Saroyan The Dillen - Ron Hutchinson Life’s a Dream - John Barton THE BARBICAN Maydays - David Edgar PIT Undiscovered Country – Season of New Work The Body - Nick Darke 1984 THE OTHER PLACE Camille - Pam Gems Golden Girls - Louise Page The Party - Trevor Griffiths Today - Robert Holman The Desert Air - Nicholas Wright Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Christopher Hampton PIT Thoughtcrimes – Short Play Season Red Star - Charles Wood Softcops - Caryl Churchill 1985 THE OTHER PLACE The Quest devised - David Rome Flight - David Lan Mary, After the Queen - Ron Hutchinson and Angela Hewins THE BARBICAN Red Noses - Peter Barnes Les Miserables - Alain Boubil & Claude Schonberg PIT Red, Black and Ignorant / The Tin Can People / Great Peace - David Edgar Crimes in Hot Countries - Howard Barker Barker Poems MERMAID THEATRE, LONDON Breaking the Silence - Stephen Poliakoff 1986 THE OTHER PLACE The Art of Success - Nick Dear Worlds Apart - Jose Triana Country Dancing - Nigel Williams THE BARBICAN Mephisto - Ariane Mnouchkine The Danton Affair - Pam Gems A Penny For a Song - John Whiting PIT Il Candelaio - Giordano Bruno Real Dreams - Trevor Griffiths Principia Scriptoriae - Richard Nelson Heresies - Deborah Levy 1987 THE OTHER PLACE Fashion - Doug Lucie Temptation - Vaclav Havel Indigo - Heidi Thomas A Question of Geography - Nella Bieslki & John Berger THE BARBICAN Lorca’s Women - translated by Gwynne Edwards Early Stages – Collection of Readings PIT Country Dancing - Nigel Williams Sarcophagus - Vladimir Gubarayev (translated by Michael Glenny) Worlds Apart Peter Whelan (adapted by Peter Whelan) The Storm - Alexander Ostrovsky (translated by Stephen Lowe) The Art of Success - Nick Dear Deathwatch - Jean Genet (translated by David Ruskin) Old Year’s Eve - Peter Speyer Speculators - Tony Marchant 1988 THE OTHER PLACE Across Oka - Robert Holman The Love of the Nightingale - Timberlake Wertenbaker Late Night & Lunchtime Extras Winter Festival PIT Divine Gossip - Stephen Lowe Electra Sophocles (translated by Kenneth McLeish) ALMEIDA Hello and Goodbye - Athol Fugard RST Carrie - Lawrence D Cohen THE SWAN Restoration - Edward Bond 1989 THE SWAN Singer - Peter Flannery The Last Days of Don Juan - Tirso de Molina & Nick Dear Two Shakespeare Actors - Richard Nelson Antigone (translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker) Oedipus at Colonus (translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker) Oedipus Tyrannos (translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker) THE BARBICAN Janet and John - Lucy Gannon PIT Some Americans Abroad - Richard Nelson Mary and Lizzie - Frank McGuinness ALMEIDA Kissing the Pope - Nick Deare 1990 THE BARBICAN A Clockwork Orange - Antony Burgess (Music U2) Moscow Gold -Tariq Ali PIT Have - Julius Hay Earwig - Paula Milne A Dream of People - Michael Hastings 1991 THE OTHER PLACE The Blue Angel - Pam Gems THE BARBICAN Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - David Edgar PIT The Curse of the Starving Class - Sam Shepherd 1992 THE OTHER PLACE The Odyssey - Derek Walcott The School of Night - Peter Whelan THE BARBICAN Columbus: The Discovery of Japan - Richard Nelson PIT Artists and Admirers - Ostrovsky (translated by Kevin Elyot) Tender is the North – A Festival of Scandinavian Events The Gift of the Gorgon - Peter Shaffer 1993 THE OTHER PLACE Moby Dick - Rob Wooden THE SWAN Elgar’s Rondo - David Pownall Wildest Dreams - Alan Ayckbourn THE PIT Unfinished Business - Michael Hastings 1994 THE OTHER PLACE After Easter - Anne Devlin Pentecost - David Edgar THE PIT Ion - David Lan New England - Richard Nelson 1995 THE OTHER PLACE Lord of the Flies - Nigel Williams THE SWAN Bingo - Edward Bond THE BARBICAN A Christmas Carol - John Mortimer THE PIT Spring Awakening - Wedekind The Park - Botho Strauss Son of Man - Dennis Potter Cain - John Barton Slaughter City - Naomi Wallace 1996 THE SWAN General from America - Richard Nelson THE OTHER PLACE The Herbal Bed - Peter Whelan Everyman THE BARBICAN Les Enfants du Paradis - Simon Callow Observe the Sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme - Frank McGuiness 1997 THE OTHER PLACE The Mysteries (The Creation, The