NEW WORK AT THE RSC – KEY PRODUCTIONS OVER THE LAST 50 YEARS

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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) - A Penny for a Song - John Whiting

NEW CLUB Everything in the Garden - Giles Cooper Nil Carborandum - Henry Livings The Lower Depths - (new version Derek Marlowe) Afore Night Come - 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 - (adapted by Adrian Mitchell and translated by Geoffrey Skelton) Eh? - Henry Livings

1965

ALDWYCH Expeditions Two – A selection of plays on nation and Colonialism - Harold Pinter The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew -

1966

ALDWYCH Tango - Slawomir Mrozek (translated by Nicholas Bethell and adapted by ) 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 ) Little Murders - Jules Feiffer

1968

ALDWYCH Indians - Arthur Kopit The Latent Heterosexual - 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 -

TOUR Old Times - Harold Pinter Occupations -

THE PLACE, 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 Was Shakespeare’s Double - Penny Gold & John Downie Babies Grow Old - Afore Night Come - David Rudkin -

TOUR The World Turned Upside Down - Dave Holman

THE PLACE The Beast -

1975

ALDWYCH Jingo - Charles Wood

1976

THE OTHER PLACE Dingo - Charles Wood Destiny - - 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 - Peter Nichols

RFH Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - Tom Stoppard

THE WAREHOUSE The Good Between Us - 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 - 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 - 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 - Sore Throats - Howard Brenton Men’s Beano - Nigel Baldwin Captain Swing - Peter Whelan

GULBENKIAN STUDIO Eurpides (translated by David Rudkin)

1980

THE OTHER PLACE - Edward Bond Hansel and Gretel - David Rudkin

THE WAREHOUSE Bastard Angel - Barrie Keefe The Loud Boy’s Life - Howard Barker High Water - Nick Darke - 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 - , 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 - Thirteenth Night - Howard Brenton The Accrington Pals - Peter Whelan

GULBENKIAN Ball Boys - David Edgar 1982

THE OTHER PLACE - 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 - The Desert Air - Nicholas Wright Les Liaisons Dangereuses -

PIT Thoughtcrimes – Short Play Season Red Star - Charles Wood Softcops -

1985

THE OTHER PLACE The Quest devised - David Rome Flight - 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 of Success - 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 - A Question of Geography - Nella Bieslki &

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 - (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 (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 -

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) Gold -

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 - 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 -

1993

THE OTHER PLACE Moby Dick - Rob Wooden

THE SWAN Elgar’s Rondo - Wildest Dreams -

THE PIT Unfinished Business - Michael Hastings

1994

THE OTHER PLACE After Easter - Anne Devlin Pentecost - David Edgar

THE PIT Ion - David Lan New - 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 - Wedekind The Park - Botho Strauss Son of Man - 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 - Observe the Sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme - Frank McGuiness

1997

THE OTHER PLACE The Mysteries (The Creation, The Mysteries, The ) Roberto Zucco - Bernard-Marie Koltes Goodnight Children Everywhere - Richard Nelson

THE SWAN The Night Before Christmas - Daniel Jamieson

THE PIT of Man - Edward Bond

1998

THE OTHER PLACE Bad Weather - Robert Holman

THE SWAN Talk of the City - Stephen Poliakoff Tales from - Simon Reade and Tim Supple

RST The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - Adrian Noble 1999

THE OTHER PLACE (translated by Robert David MacDonald) Bollocks - Warwickshire Testimony - April de Angelis Oroonoko - Biyi Bandele

2000

THE OTHER PLACE La Lupa - Giovanni Verga

RST The Secret Garden -

THE BARBICAN (translated by ) Tantalus - John Barton

THE PIT Victoria - David Grieg

2001

THE OTHER PLACE A Russian in the Woods - Peter Whelan The Lieutenant of Inishmore - Martin McDonagh The Prisoners Dilemma - David Edgar

THE SWAN Jubilee - Peter Barnes

THE BARBICAN Alice in Wonderland - Adrian Mitchell

THE PIT Loveplay - Fiona Buffini Luminosity - Nick Stafford Official Secrets Act - Paul Greenwood and Simon Reade Brixton Stories - Biyi Bandele Night of the Soul - David Farr

2003

THE OTHER PLACE Birdsong - James Saunders

RST Beauty and the Beast - Laurence Boswell THE BARBICAN Midnights Children - Simon Reade

2004

THE OTHER PLACE Poor Beck - Joanna Laurens The Pilate Workshop - Helen Edmondson and Michael Boyd Visible - Sarah Woods Trade - Debbie Tucker Green Nowhere to Belong - Yasmin Alibhai-Brown 10th September 2001 - Doug Coupland

THE SWAN Tynan - Colin Chambers Midwinter - Daughter of the Air - Sarah Woods Head/Case - Ron Hutchinson

2005

THE OTHER PLACE Solstice - Zinnie Harris The American Pilot -

THE SWAN Speaking Like Magpies - Frank McGuinness Breakfast With Mugabe - Fraser Grace

RST Great Expectations - Nick Ormerod and Declan Donnellan

COXS YARD Season of Migration to the North - Biyi Bandele Elective Affinities - David Adjimi Eric La Rue - Brett Neveu

2006 THE SWAN Regime Change - Peter Straughan

CUBE @ RST Indian Boy - One of these Days - Leo Butler (Later re-titled to I’ll be the Devil)

2007

THE SWAN Days of Significance - Roy Williams The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood LONDON God in Ruins Anthony Neilson

2008 TRICYCLE THEATRE LONDON I’ll be the Devil - Leo Butler Days of Significance - Roy Williams

LATITUDE FESTIVAL The Big Lie - Anthony Neilson and Nick Powell

WILTONS MUSIC HALL LONDON The of Thomas Hobbes - Adriano Shaplin The Cordelia Dream - Marina Carr

2009

COURTYARD THATRE, STRATORD-UPON-AVON The Drunks - Mikhail and Vyacheslav Durnenkov (translated by Nina Raine) The Grain Store - Natal’ia Vorozhbit (translated by Sasha Dugdale)

LATITUDE FESITVAL Here Lies Mary Spindler - Phil Porter

NORTHERN STAGE Days of Significance - Roy Williams (and National Tour) A Tender Thing - Ben Power

LIVE THEATRE Tyneside Stories - Ali Muriel, Roz Wyllie, Laura Neal, Dick Curran & Sam Holcroft

2010

HAMPSTEAD THEATRE The Gods Weep - - David Greig

LATITUDE FESITVAL The Thirteen Midnight Challenges of Angelus Diablo - Carl Grose

COURTYARD THEATRE Morte D’Arthur - Mike Poulton - book by Dennis Kelly, Music and Lyrics by

LIVE THEATRE Seeing Double - Ali Muriel & Roz Wyllie

2011

HAMPSTEAD THEATRE Little Eagles – Rona Munro Silence - Filter and David Farr American Trade – Tarell McCraney

SWAN Written On The Heart - David Edgar The Heresy Of Love -

RST The Heart of Robin Hood – David Farr

2012

SWAN

The Orphan Of Zhao – James Fenton

Boris Godunov – Adrian Mitchell

RST

The Mouse and His Child – Based on the book by Russell Hoban, By Tamsin Oglesby

DUCHESS THEATRE

Written On The Heart – David Edgar

2013

SWAN

The Empress –

A Life of Galileo – , a new translation by Mark Ravenhill

Candide – Mark Ravenhill

Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies – Adapted from the novel by Hilary Mantel, By Mike Poulton

RST

Wendy and Peter Pan – Based on the book by J.M Barrie, By Ella Hickson

2014

ALDYWCH THEATRE, LONDON

Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies – by Hilary Mantel

THE OTHER PLACE

Midsummer Mischief Festival – Programme A (by Alice Birch and Timberlake Wertenbaker), and Programme B (by E V Crowe and Abi Zakarian)

RST

The Christmas Truce – by Phil Porter 2015

SWAN

Oppenheimer – by Tom Morton-Smith