PERFORMANCES HISTORY
We bring words to life with love and laughter
Above: Margo Cargill performing John Milton’s sonnets on blindness at The Banqueting House in Whitehall, for Milton’s 400th birth anniversary.
L.L.C.’s REPERTOIRE OF PERFORMANCES
We are happy to give revival performances of any programme below.
For our work overseas please see the international page.
BYRON THE POET – IN VENICE – 2026
IMMERSIVE BLAKE PERFORMANCE OF SONGS OF INNOCENCE & EXPERIENCE – 2022
SHAKESPEARE AND SIGN LANGUAGE: 2012 ROMEO & JULIET FILM – RE-RELEASED IN 2020
IMMERSIVE BLAKE FOR THE OPENING OF THE BLAKE RETROSPECTIVE TATE BRITAIN 2019
EMILY BRONTE’S POETRY – FOR EMILY’S 200TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY – THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY 2018.
WORLD PREMIERE – THE SHOEMAKER’S WONDERFUL WIFE BY FEDERICO LORCA 2015
BLAKE BY ELLIOTT HAYES FOR PROJECT BLAKE ON THE SOUTH BANK 2008
CHRISTMAS MILTON CELEBRATION – FOR JOHN MILTON’S 400 TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY IN MILTON’S CHURCH – 2008
WAR POETS & POETRY OF CONSCIENCE – NATIONAL THEATRE & CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL OF LITERATURE – 2002/2003
PRODUCTIONS DIRECTED PRIOR TO L.L.C.
SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS & QUEENS DEVISED BY VALERIE DOULTON – CHELTENHAM SPRING FESTIVAL & N.P.G – 2000
THE QUILT BY VALERIE DOULTON – THE ACTORS’ CENTRE
BLAKE – ST. JAMES’S PICCADILLY – a memorial tribute for writer ELLIOTT HAYES – 1994
BLAKE BY ELLIOTT HAYES – FILMED FOR THE SOUTH BANK SHOW
THE ONE BEFORE THE LAST BY KATE PARKER – OFFSTAGE DOWNSTAIRS
THE NATIONAL THEATRE – LYTTLETON THEATRE – SYLVIA PLATH: A DRAMATIC PORTRAIT: BY BARRY KYLE – 1987
THE LYRIC THEATRE – HAMMERSMITH – A SEASON OF SHORT PLAYS BY W.B. YEATS, KOPIT & JOE ORTON
A SEASON OF SHORT PLAYS AT THE LYRIC HAMMERSMITH
WORK IN MUSIC
THE SOLDIER’S TALE BY STRAVINSKY – ST. DAVID’S HALL / CARDIFF – AND TOUR OF WALES
BRITISH STUDENT PRODUCTIONS DIRECTED
DRAMA CENTRE – Blood on the Neck of The Cat
CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH & DRAMA – Rosmersholm, John Gabriel Borkman, Heartbreak House, A View from the Bridge, The Beaux’ Stratagem
GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DRAMA – The Recruiting Officer, A Flea in Her Ear
THE WEBBER DOUGLAS ACADEMY OF DRAMA – Spring Awakening, Iphigenia in Tauris
MOUNTVIEW – Chekhov
DRAMA STUDIO LONDON – The Measures Taken
GUILDFORD SCHOOL OF ACTING – Death of a Salesman
MANCHESTER POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL OF THEATRE – Uncle Vanya
BRISTOL OLD VIC THEATRE SCHOOL – Magnificence
CITY LIT – D.C. (A Musical) Book and Music by Jeremy Raymond, Blood Wedding, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, Spring Awakening, Find Me, The Mysteries.
CITY LIT FOR JOHN JAMES’ SHAKESPEARE REPERTORY THEATRE – The Changeling, The Duchess of Malfi, Romeo & Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Pericles, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Winter’s Tale, Richard lll, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Tempest, Othello, The Merchant of Venice
AMERICAN STUDENT SHAKESPEARE PRODUCTIONS DIRECTED
June 2026 A Midsummer Night’s Dream (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) a recital with a Gen Z Climate Change focus, performed at St. Anne’s Church, Highgate, by Niagara University drama students.
June 2025 As You Like It with Shakespeare’s Sonnets (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) a recital performed at St. Anne’s Church, Highgate, by Niagara University drama students.
June 2024 A Midsummer Night’s Dream in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) a recital performed at St. Anne’s Church, Highgate, by Niagara University drama students.
June 2023 As You Like It with Songs in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) play performed by Niagara University drama students on the tea lawn at Lauderdale House, Highgate, & Salcombe, Devon.
June 2019 A Midsummer Night’s Dream in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) play performed by Niagara University drama students on the tea lawn at Lauderdale House, Highgate, & Woodcot garden, Salcombe, Devon.
June 2018 Love Scenes from As You Like It with Songs in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) performed by Niagara University drama students on the tea lawn at Lauderdale House, Highgate, Hall’s Croft garden Stratford-upon-Avon, Woodcot garden, Salcombe, Devon.
June 2017 Much Ado About Nothing in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) performed by Niagara University drama students on the tea lawn at Lauderdale House, Highgate, Hall’s Croft garden Stratford-upon-Avon, Woodcot garden, Salcombe, Devon.
June 2016 & 2014 The Tempest in One Hour: A Climate Change Concept: (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) performed by Niagara University drama students in the garden at Hall’s Croft garden Stratford-upon-Avon.
June 2015 Twelfth Night in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) performed by Niagara University drama students at Hall’s Croft garden Stratford-upon-Avon, Woodcot garden, Salcombe, Devon.
June 2013 Twelfth Night in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) performed by Niagara University drama students on tour to Woodcot garden, Salcombe, Devon.
2012 Twelfth Night in One Hour (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) performed by Niagara University drama students in the V & A Performance Gallery.
2011 Shakespeare’s Henry V111 with a special focus on Anne Boleyn (adaptation & direction by Val Doulton) performed by Niagara University drama students at The Tower of London.
