Photo: Tom Burke with Anna Calder-Marshall in Val Doulton’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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SPRING 2025
Shakespeare’s Ophelia Meets Pessoa’s Ofelia in Regent’s Park. Written and Directed by Valerie Doulton, this Mindfulness Look, Touch, Hear, Smell, Taste, Performance piece by Val highlights L.L.C’s links to issues concerning the environment.
Andy Atkins, Director of Friends of the Earth gave valuable support to Val in writing:
“I do believe we need to link the arts and sciences in a much more concerted push for sustainability urgently. All power to you!”
