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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.

Performances

Professional performances showing how words can truly be brought to life…

Education

The Live Literature Company is proud to support the next generation of perfromers, writters, and directors …

Community / Outreach

The Live Literature Company is proud to collaborate with communities in the UK and accross the world …

Latest News

JULY 2024: MEMORIAL CELEBRATION READING FOR ACTOR/WRITER KILIAN MCKENNA

Cast & Creatives for Events at Peredelkino at Lauderdale House

The Live Literature Company

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.

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