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) - 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 Mysteries, The Passion) Roberto Zucco - Bernard-Marie Koltes Goodnight Children Everywhere - Richard Nelson
THE SWAN The Night Before Christmas - Daniel Jamieson
THE PIT Company of Man - Edward Bond
1998
THE OTHER PLACE Bad Weather - Robert Holman
THE SWAN Talk of the City - Stephen Poliakoff Tales from Ovid - Simon Reade and Tim Supple
RST The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - Adrian Noble 1999
THE OTHER PLACE Don Carlos (translated by Robert David MacDonald) Bollocks - Lee Hall Warwickshire Testimony - April de Angelis Oroonoko - Biyi Bandele
2000
THE OTHER PLACE La Lupa - Giovanni Verga
RST The Secret Garden - Marsha Norman
THE BARBICAN The Seagull (translated by Peter Gill) 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 - Zinnie Harris Daughter of the Air - Sarah Woods Head/Case - Ron Hutchinson
2005
THE OTHER PLACE Solstice - Zinnie Harris The American Pilot - David Greig
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 - Rona Munro 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 SOHO THEATRE 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 Tragedy 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 - Dennis Kelly Dunsinane - David Greig
LATITUDE FESITVAL The Thirteen Midnight Challenges of Angelus Diablo - Carl Grose
COURTYARD THEATRE Morte D’Arthur - Mike Poulton Matilda - book by Dennis Kelly, Music and Lyrics by Tim Minchin
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 - Helen Edmundson
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 – Tanika Gupta
A Life of Galileo – Bertolt Brecht, 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