Photo: Tom Burke with Anna Calder-Marshall in Val’s piece Shakespeare’s Kings & Queens
Welcome to The Live Literature Company
Literature gives empathy and understanding
The Live Literature Company was founded in 2002 by our Artistic Director Valerie Doulton. We are a leading literary and combined arts performance company staging work both in the U.K.and internationally. We stage both contemporary and classic performances, and we create new work from a wide range of writing, all of which we make accessible to the widest possible audience. We also produce deeply resonant site-specific work connecting arts to place. We were made Artistic Associates of TATE and work in partnership with organisations including the British Library, the V & A Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Wales Millennium Centre to stage our work.
We have received funding from Arts Council England, TATE, the British Library, the V & A Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Wales Millennium Centre. We continue to seek funding to support our work.
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JULY 2024: MEMORIAL CELEBRATION READING FOR ACTOR/WRITER KILIAN MCKENNA
Cast & Creatives for Events at Peredelkino at Lauderdale House
Front, L to R:
Kerill Kelly, Sally McKenna, Val Doulton, Sara Kestelman
Middle, L to R:
Kenneth Michaels, Jonathan Slinger, Matthew Blaney
Back:
Edward Halsted.
Photographer:
Stephen McKenna.
L.L.C. were proud to present a memorial reading of ‘Events at Peredelkino’ by actor/writer Kilian McKenna at Lauderdale House, Highgate. Kilian gave a solo performance in Val’s production of ‘First Love’ by Samuel Beckett. This was a U.K. premiere of this Beckett novella, which opened at The National Theatre. Further performances were given at Nottingham Playhouse, and the Beckett Festival in Berlin.